How Tarot Cards Can Help You... Really!

What Are Tarot Cards?

Made up of no less than seventy-eight cards, each deck of Tarot cards are all the same. Tarot cards come in all sizes with all types of artwork on both the front and back - some even make their own Tarot cards. The meaning and the message of each one of those seventy-eight cards,  however, always remains the same.

Tarot cards were first used by the Celtic people more than two thousand years ago. Many believe that Tarot cards serve only to tell the future, but this is not true. When used traditionally, Tarot cards speak of the past and present, and are supposed to give clues and ideas about the future that you are potentially heading into.

What's In the Cards?

Tarot cards are made up of four suits - much like any regular deck of cards. In fact, Tarot cards have all the same values as traditional playing cards: ace through king for each suit. Only one extra card is added to the royal family in Tarot cards - the squire, his position is just under that of the knave (also known as the jack). 

The suits are as follows: wands, which in general speak of esoteric issues such as spirituality or creativity; swords, which speak of conflicts and tensions; cups (or pentacles), which are always about money; and cups, which deal in relationship matters and love. The other twenty-two cards of the standard Tarot deck are called the Major Arcana cards, and are all very specific. Cards such as the Devil, the Tower, and Death are in the Major Arcana. 

How Could a Tarot Card Reading Actually Help Me?

When done traditionally, a Tarot card reading can put everything into perspective in a clear and understandable way. Every Tarot card reading is prefaced by a question, one that you do not have to reveal to your Tarot card reader but that you keep to yourself. Each card will come up in the past, present, or future position and will shed some light on the topic of your question. 

Whether or not you believe in spiritual or esoteric things, or even in the art of telling the future, a Tarot card reading can help you better understand your own thoughts. You'll realize potentially dangerous patterns in your life, and get a better understanding of self. Even the question that you ask in your mind can help you understand something about yourself, and in this way a Tarot card reading can truly help you.

Can Anyone Read Tarot Cards, Or Do I Have To Call Someone or Go Online?

Anyone can learn how to read Tarot cards. There are many books available, both in online and physical bookstores that will tell you the meaning and message of each and every card. Every card in Tarot has a card-specific meaning, and a message or warning. The good news is, there's no secret about what these cards mean to convey - so you, too, can learn how to read the Tarot. 

Once you know the meaning of the cards (and it's not something you have to memorize; it's perfectly okay to keep notes by you when you try to give yourself a Tarot card reading), you can read the Tarot for yourself or for others. Any book you read about the Tarot will explain the spreads to use - the way to lay the cards out to understand their meaning and placement in the scheme of your question. 

An Ancient Mystery

Tarot cards are more ancient than religion. Tarot cards are older than most languages and most writing, and yet they are still around and are still being used today the exact same way they were used thousands of years ago. If Tarot cards didn't help people, why would they still be used and still be so popular?

Author Bio

I have been studying Tarot for seven years and have incorporated it in my dailly meditation routine. My purpose for this article is to give others a free resource which can hopefully change their lives for the better.

By: Glen Wearden

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The Power of the Tarot

Tarot readers have always given their hand at making sure a person receives an accurate tarot reading.  The tarot reading is extremely popular in today's society because so many people are interested in what the future may hold for them.  It's not an every day thing that you can  have your tarot reading done by a popular or accurate psychic.  

Many psychics from around the world have mastered the art of reading the tarot.  It is not an easy art to learn if you do it correctly.  The tarot can pick up on love, money, business or other types of questions.  I had my first tarot reading in Buffalo, NY.  I was getting ready to make some life changes for myself and I came across a tarot reader in a cafe in Buffalo called Spot Coffee.  As I walked into the coffee shop, I noticed a young man sitting down with a deck of tarot cards.  I never had a psychic reading before that day and I realized that I was about to encounter a different type of psychic reading.  The psychic shuffled their cards and asked me to ask the tarot cards a question.  I asked about location.  Where was I supposed to move and why?  What was in store for my future?  

As the psychic tarot reader shuffled the cards, my mouth dropped becuause I had some power of telling the psychic reader when to turn the cards over.  The psychic asked me to focus my attention on my question only and to take out any distractions that may have been on my mind.  I did just that.

A minute later he told me that I would be moving to a foreign place and one that I have never seen before.  When he told me Asia, I said to myself that he must not know what he is talking about.  I did not have much money and I wasn't about to take a trip to a country that I knew nothing about.  I left the table sadly and the psychic said to wait for his psychic reading to come to pass.  

A month later, I decided to join the United States Army and my first assignment was to go to Korea.  I was shocked.  My mouth completely dropped.  The tarot cards were correct, I was going to be stationed in Korea.  I did not know what to say because Korea was the only place that the Army offered me to go.  I was not allowed to go to Germany or even Fort Drum, New York which is known for its cold weather.  I asked the army if they could send me anywhere except Korea.  They said that it was not possible to do at that time.  The tarot cards were correct because I had no other choice at that time in my life.  I had to go to Korea because of tough financial times.  I realized that this was God's will and so I left for Korea.

This was the first time ever in my life that I became a believer in the tarot card.  I was not a believer before then.  I always went to clairvoyant psychics.  I knew in my heart that there was absolutely no way that this psychic could have picked this up on his own.  I did not even know this information yet. 

If you are looking to find some direction in your life, I encourage you to get a tarot psychic reading.  They are fun, interesting and have much truth to them.  Make sure that you go to a professional reader that has been doing it for years so that you can have the same experience as I have had. 

Author:  Psychic

Tarot Cards and the Language of the Unconscious

The system for using Tarot cards for self-exploration and as a way of examining life themes is, unfortunately, often shadowed by erroneous associations with black magic and such like. For example, consider the "Death" card: it does not refer to physical death but rather external

 

 

 transformation - i.e., the destruction of some aspect(s) of our old lives to make room for the new. Similarly, "The Devil" card pertains not to violence or hatred but rather sexuality (creative energy in its most raw and earthy form), and procreative energy. 

Most of the symbols within the Tarot revolve around the same four elements outlined by the alchemists of antiquity: Earth (Disks), Air (Swords), Fire (Wands), and Water (Cups). Like the Tarot itself, the Alchemists were often mocked and derided by "enlightened" minds that failed to understand the real intent of their work. They were, therefore, forced to perform their research under extremely repressive and fearful conditions thanks to the Medieval Church and the Inquisition. As a result of these pressures, their quest for spiritual expansion had to be recorded in coded language in order to protect it - and themselves. To the uninitiated, the Alchemists were searching for a way to transmute "base metals into gold". But in reality, the aim of their work was wholeness and spiritual union with the Divine (the soul's true gold).

I would propose two reasons why inner work often seems obscure and esoteric to western minds. The first relates to what I've mentioned thus far: that the explorers of the inner realms have, throughout our history, been forced to cloak and enshroud their findings in mystery in order to protect themselves. The second reason is that the inner world does not follow the same laws as our logic-brains. Its logic is the poetry of dreams.

The entire Surrealist movement in the early twentieth century was based upon methods of releasing conscious control over one's art and allowing the unconscious to express itself. The surrealists assumed that any material derived from the unconscious held inherently greater value than that which was produced by the intellect. Their approach was perhaps unbalanced, their philosophy biased. Returning to the Tarot, we can see illustrated in such cards as "Art" and "The Lovers", with their mystical wedding of opposites, the necessity of our conscious and unconscious minds working together rather than existing at odds.

Again we are dealing with a coded language that communicates certain insights to the initiated and appears as something entirely different to those unfamiliar with its symbolism. So how does a person new to any kind of inner work approach methods like Tarot, numerology, and astrology? By keeping an open mind and trying to shed any kinds of superstitious notions that cling to them. Then, over time, the symbols begin to speak to us and we understand, intuitively, what they are telling us. We become fluent in their language.

Author:  Seth Mullins