The 56 Minor Arcana represent universal feelings, actions, and situations from the human experience. But I know that it does work. Especially when we approach it from a place of self-examination, growth, and healing. Shuffle and pull cards any way you want. Initially, tarot cards were used for games. Many, including myself, also use oracle cards in their card readings. Tarot has taken lots of different forms today and tarot readers can take more and more creative licenses in their readings.
I incorporate spiritual coaching and manifestation guidance into my readings as well. It is the wildest job I have ever had! I get to meet all kinds of people, some skeptics, many firm believers in what I do. Many readers work hard to fight the stereotypes often given to us and offer true healing to many people. When I tell people what I do as a full-time job, their eyes often get wide. They help paint a picture so I can help my clients in a cohesive way that makes sense to both me and my client.
I am happy to offer them within my readings but like life, the answer to most questions is a little grayer than yes or no. But asking yes or no questions in your reading is perfectly acceptable to me!
Once you have your question in mind, shuffle the cards in any way you see fit. The cards that pop out and the cards you feel drawn to pull are the ones you should include in your reading.
After you have your cards, look at each card individually and try to feel what the card means to you. You can always double-check what you think the meaning of the card is with the guidebook that comes with the tarot deck. Both meanings are valid. The meanings of each card can then be strung together into a story format to give you the possible answers to your question.
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The Irish were never slaves. Reviewing the most popular Halloween candies of Cancel reply. Let's look at the Celtic Cross spread and begin. Bunning suggests to then ask yourself how you feel about the projected outcome. What does it say to you? Because Tarot cards each have one picture that faces in one direction, it is possible that cards will be facing the opposite direction when dealt.
According to most sources, this doesn't change the meaning of the card, but simply weakens the impact of the meaning. Tarot cards have different meanings depending on where they fall in the spread. Here are a few of the face cards and their various meanings:.
To learn the art of Tarot card reading, you can read books, take courses and even become certified. Courses are taught online and in classes through Tarot organizations and through independent Tarot teachers. Various organizations have offered certifications over the years, including The Tarot Guild. As Tarot isn't regulated, any certification readers elect to do is entirely voluntary. Typically to achieve these certifications, you must have varying levels of experience as well as pass standardized tests.
Some of the certification levels may be as follows:. How can randomly drawn cards have any relevance to someone's life and what's happening in it?
What most readers say the Tarot can enlighten you about are the choices you have. The cards don't tell you what you should do or what specifically is going to happen in your future, but rather the possibilities depending on the path you take. Let's look at some of the theories behind how Tarot cards could possibly work. Carl Jung believed that in addition to the repeatable cause-and-effect relationships on which the scientific world is so strongly based, there is also another connecting principle that does not share that cause-and-effect relationship.
He called this principle synchronicity. According to Jung, synchronicity explains the guiding forces in the universe. Things we might see as coincidence are actually signs that can help us make decisions and guide our lives — if we recognize them. Jung believed that quantum mechanics could be a possible explanation for the phenomenon of synchronicity. Quantum mechanics explains the relationships of particles and their random interconnectivity, with behaviors being probabilities rather than certainties.
There are those who believe that because the forces of quantum mechanics affect the reality of physical objects, Tarot cards might play the role of showing us paths and patterns and helping us understand the meaning in those guiding energies. Although, according to the principles of quantum mechanics, once you see the possible outcomes in the Tarot reading, you've changed the probabilities. While Jung did not study Tarot, he was interested in I Ching another divination tool and suggested that synchronicity could be an explanation for how I Ching might work for divination.
Some say it all boils down to your subconscious mind. Arguably, how we perceive things relies heavily on our subconscious, and there are those who believe that with Tarot, the subconscious projects its own interpretations on the Tarot cards.
As a person receiving a Tarot reading, your interpretation of the cards is a result of the factors in your life that shape who you are and what you are about.
The questions you have about your life usually the reason for consulting the Tarot in the first place are projected onto the pictures, so you divine answers from what you see.
In this way, the Tarot is useful in helping us to tap into our subconscious to find answers that we might never consciously think of. The Rorschach inkblot test uses a similar principle to delve into the subconscious. Whether you believe that Tarot cards hold any power or ability to shed light on your life, your problems or your future might depend on how easily you can open you mind to the idea of it. Many Tarot card readers have differing ideas about how or why the Tarot works.
In fact, some say we only need the Tarot to help us until we learn to get in touch with our "inner guide" on our own. According to Tarot historian Tom Tadfor Little, traditional playing cards were first seen in Europe in , having been brought over from the Islamic societies where they had been used for centuries before that.
These cards were not, however, Tarot cards. At this point, he says, there is no evidence to show that Tarot cards had yet been created, which goes against many claims that ordinary playing cards evolved from the original Tarot deck. It wasn't until that the cards that were most likely the origin of Tarot cards were first mentioned. In a letter from the Duke of Milan, there was a request for several decks of "triumph" cards to be used at a special event. The letter differentiated triumph cards from regular "playing" cards.
It does appear, however, that the first Tarot decks were created as a game. There were four suits with cards numbered one through 10 and also court cards that included a queen, king, knight and page.
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