Tarot card meanings

We can think of the Tarot as a kind of map, drawn with symbolic patterns and symbols that indicate the various signposts on the inner path, and used correctly, it can give us an inner and fresh perspective on any unknown situation.

The traditional tarot deck divides the seventy-eight cards into twenty-two main cards, the Major Arcana (from 0 to 21), sixteen court cards, and forty side cards, the Minor Arcana.

The Major Arcana:Gives us answers or messages about the bigger questions or major situations at hand. At the same time, it provides us with higher cosmic teachings. These teachings provide us with answers to the important questions we face at the moment.

Court cards: Generally these cards are related to important people in our lives. They not only tell us what we must learn and want to master, but also some special wisdom that we should have.

The minor arcana: belongs to the hand of smaller answers and secondary questions, which are usually related to more immediate daily life. It is divided into four groups of fourteen cards each, which are:

1. The Scepter, governed by the element of fire. These cards indicate energetic universals, especially the native power (the masculine or androgynous side), and are associated with perception, intuition, insight, and action.

2. Swords, ruled by the water element. They reflect our inner emotional truth. Their domain includes love, feelings, communication in relationships, and nature energy (the feminine or female side).

3. Holy Grail, governed by the element of chi. This group usually reflects our mental or spiritual state, including possible, contemplative processes. This level of our being is the most easily impressed by the outside world. This group also tells us what kind of energies can be used to shape our lives.

4. The Star Coin, ruled by the element of earth. These cards point to our outer, material, physical reality. These outer reflect the inner. Those associated with the earth element include health, body, nutrition, clothing, possessions, poverty and wealth.

Each tarot card has a symbol that points to your inner thoughts, subconscious motives, hidden fears and desires, as well as your personality, long-term fortune and weaknesses.

Each Tarot card also represents a journey, with joys, pains, hopes, changes and rebirths, a re-enactment of people's lives, whether physically, mentally or emotionally.

Each tarot card represents a character, from the warm and loving mother, to the traditional and decent religious leader, to the indomitable warrior, to the wisdom-filled hermit. They are both incarnations of real people and parts of yourself.

Each Tarot card has multiple meanings. For example, The Lovers represents both romance and facing love decisions; it can represent both substantial and spiritual love, and The Chariot represents both victory and conquest, as well as power and conflict.

At the same time, each Tarot card also implies different meanings for positive and negative, depending on whether the cards are placed in a positive or negative position. For example, the moon (the moon) represents the ideal, and the reverse represents confusion, and the devil (the devil) represents temptation and corruption, and the reverse represents breaking free from bondage.

The twenty-two Major Arcana cards represent the different stages of life, which include:

0. The Fool: A person who is naive, simple and unafraid of the journey of life.

1, (the magician) magician: learning the art of communication.

2. The high priestress: full of confidence and insight.

3. (the mepress) Empress: develop love and wisdom.

4, (the emperor) emperor: play leadership, wisdom others.

5, (the hierophant) the godfather: the pursuit of faith in life

6, (the lovers) lovers: the development of different relationships

7, (the chariot) chariot: to overcome difficulties and victory.

8, (justice) justice: fair and just treatment of people.

9, (the hermit) hermit: self-reflection, contemplation.

10, (the wheel of fortune) the wheel of fate: to change fate and work hard upwards.

11, (strength) strong: indomitable, play strength.

12, (the hanged man) inverted hanging man: self-sacrificing dedication.

13. (death) death: the end of something or the end of an experience.

14. (themperance) moderation: ending the past and maintaining equilibrium.

15, (the devil) devil: the sinister side of things or the dark side of the heart.

16. (the tower) tower: to break free and gain laughter.

17. (the star) star: the fire that ignites.

18, (the moon) moon: the pursuit of dreams.

19. The sun: to reach success.

20. (judgement) judgment: the use of wise judgment.

21. (the world) world: to build a beautiful new world.

The opening ceremony tarot cards, different association system, in the opening, sealing, divination ceremony will be different, but the general meaning is similar. Although in fact there is no need to adhere to the form, but some people are in need of rituals to strengthen the trust of the cards, in addition to the more formal activities, the ceremony is also essential. License opening ceremony - Holy Farewell Ceremony.

The so-called Opening Ceremony is a ceremony performed to demagnetize the cards after they have just been purchased. Of course, it is not necessary, just a habit for some people.

Preparation for the Farewell Ceremony

The first four elements are the ones that are set out on the table:

Fire-Candles or incense burners, like the ones used by the Chief Priestess in the Weart version of the Tarot.

Earth-Stone, using ores or crystals feels better than regular stones.

Wind - knives, swords and other things that mean "sharp", but you don't really need to use a knife that's been sharpened, like a nice letter opener would be good.

Water - beautiful cups, don't use mugs or coffee cups, it's too ...... creative to use a conch.

In fact, it does not need to be too rigid in form, as long as it can represent the four elements can be. A lot of places write different representations, there is no need to be bothered by it.

These things are best especially to be used as a ceremony, do not take already used birthday candles, cups to use, hey, hey, do not feel too good Oh, in fact, in addition to the holy goodbye ceremony, usually divination can be put out these guys, I heard that there will be the power of the four elements of the secret tampering ......, ha! I'm just kidding, is going to have a more magical effect, but I usually do not bother to get these things, too much trouble.

I. Meditation

Meditation is the same as the usual divination meditation, try to do nothing to think about, the eyes to see the nose, the nose to see the realm of the heart.

Two: Prayer-opening, resurrection, and connection

As for the prayer, which is used to open new cards, resurrect the spirit of the Tarot, and connect with the universe, the content is self-written, and can be referred to the content of the contracting ceremony in the manga "Elf Envoy:" "All the elves who have pricked up their ears to listen to the sound of my voice, O elf! Thou hast imprinted upon me, under the King of the Moon, the unfinished seal of magical power! Grant me the power of my right hand, and the spirit of my left, and the destiny which thou seekest, I will do my best to open for thee! "The deed!" Like this is the perfect prayer, the spirit of opening, resurrection, and connection are all there.

Three, over the incense (clockwise)

Over the incense is like the temple worship, take the card in the incense burner in a clockwise direction over a circle on the line.

Four, the water of the five mango (finger dipped in water in the air to draw five mango>

Drawing five mango should pay attention to, the first row from the bottom to the top of the row, in order to draw to the five apexes. That is to say: start from the bottom point, draw to the highest point above, and finally end up at the original bottom point.

V. Meditation

VI. Reading

Reading cards

When reading cards, you have to read them one by one, so it will take a lot of time and energy, so you have to pay special attention to it.

Seven, the first divination: goodwill

The first divination is the first divination of the deck of cards, the content is not limited, but to ask questions about themselves and the cards, such as asking the cards feel and their own fit or not, or each other for the spirit of the Tarot is not the same ...... and so on

Eight, the receipt of

Collection

The collection of cards is just like a normal day.

Collecting the cards is just like the usual procedure of collecting cards, collecting the cards in order, stabilizing your thoughts while collecting them, closing them with meditation and putting them in the box of collecting cards.

P-S The order of collection is 0-21 for Major Arcana, and Fire-Earth-Wind-Water for Minor Arcana.

The way the cards are opened is more or less different for different systems, and what is posted here is for reference only.

There are a few things that are very important before counting cards in general:

1. Cleaning... Hands, table, clean...

2. It can not be disturbed by external "evil demons"...

3. Secrecy ... Not to publicize the inquirer's privacy...

4. Meditation... Meditation on the environment to purify...

Answers to questions are reflected in a meditative way, where meditation is the most powerful influence on the outcome of divination .... To be a good diviner, the most important thing is to be able to master the idea of meditation:

a Before divination, first meditate.... Imagine yourself as the center... Imagine yourself as the center of a circle... surrounded by a circle... There is nothing in the circle... Quiet, empty like the universe. ....

b Think of a circle surrounded by energies wind, fire, water, earth and ask for their power .... Think again... Imagine that these four energies are gathering inside the circle... Gradually merging into themselves. ....

At this point... Prepare for the end of the game before opening the cards...

When you know your opponent's problem, you can start meditating .... Perhaps... Ask the person asking to meditate on the question together... Feelings, etc. .... If you can hold the other person's hand and meditate together, it is even better... (If you feel awkward, you can hold the cards and ask the person to put their hand on them. )... Meditate until you feel the sensation, then start shuffling. ....

Dissolving the cards .... Continue the meditation without stopping ....

When the question has been asked ..... You can prepare to collect the cards ....

After the cards are closed... Meditate again... Imagine yourself in the great circle you were just in .... Thanks to the power of the four elements .... Imagine the power gradually stopping and merging into the circle until it stops... Imagine the circle shrinking and disappearing .......

After that... You have returned to the original world ....

The Ritual of Sealing

When a deck of cards no longer suits you, or you have used black magic with it and fear the power of the curse, seal the deck. Remember, no matter what Tarot deck, no matter how it has been used, a Tarot deck should never be thrown away. You buy it and it stays with you forever. Unless ...... there is a fire in your house? (I didn't mean to curse ...... no ...... didn't mean that.) Or give it away. In short, it's never to be disposed of as scrap.

Of course, don't think you can seal the card just use it to use black magic, in fact, the rebound force of using black magic is very big, if you don't have enough power, although you follow the ritual to do it, but it is very likely that you can't seal it at all. Remember, remember!

The sealing ceremony is very simple:

Wrap the cards in a black cloth and place them in the north of the house. Please do this carefully, preferably with a meditation.