Tarot Card Reading

Tarot card reading is mainly done to know the future and for divinatory purpose. Tarot card reading is not easy, as it seem to be; it involves great research and practice.

Tarot was known as ‘tarrochi’ or ‘tarock’ to begin with. It is a pack of cards, mostly seventy-eight in number used in Europe in the mid fifteenth century to play card games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot. It was and is used by mystics and occultists for achieving divination or used as a map of mental or spiritual pathways from 18th century until present time.

The normal cards tarot cards have four suits. Every suit has a pip card starting from ace to ten and four face cards, which makes total of 14 cards. It has additional 21-card trump suit and a single card known as the ‘Fool’. The ‘Fool’ can act as a top trump.

There is naming convention for the tarot cards, which is done by occultists. They call the trump cards and the Fool ‘Major Arcana’ while the ten pips and four court cards in each suit as ‘Minor Arcana’. The major arcane includes Lovers, Fool, Pope and World. The minor arcana is divided into 4 suites of 14 cards each, including Swords, Cups, Wands (sometimes called Rods and Staves) and Pentacles (sometimes called Coins or Discs). Renaissance tarots are good for questions of passion, mastery and reason. If the card is reversed, then its effect is negated or inverted.

E.g., ‘Death’ upright has the meaning ‘change’ but when reversed it means ‘stagnation’.

Tarot is a deck of cards originated over 500 years ago in northern Italy. Tarot was used in a game called ‘triumphs’. Interpreting tarot cards requires many years of practice and it depends on how the cards are laid out in a spread, which has special meaning. Tarot reading was popularized by occultists from orders like the ‘Hermatic Order of the Golden Dawn’. In earlier days, Tarot symbols were deeply rooted in medieval and Renaissance European culture, but over the years, it has imbibed everything from Astrology to Kabbalah to Runes.

Tarot card meaning - : It is hard to read tarot cards. However, few tarot cards explain themselves very well. The following techniques such as astrology, psychology, symbolism, numerology etc are used to read the cards. The cards were designed when almost everyone was illiterate. The tarot cards can be read with mere intuition. The best of the readers do not understand the mystical traditions and symbol of tarot cards, but they are able to grasp the hidden meanings of tarot cards intuitively.

How to read tarot cards - : Decide with which tarot card you would like to work. Rider tarot is good pack designed by A E Waite. The advantage of using them is that they help us to retain the traditional symbolism and all cards have pictures, which guides you. In this way, the tarot cards teach you by themselves.

Before practicing to read the tarot cards, look at every tarot card and try to guess what these tarot cards are trying to tell. How can you interpret a card? It tells us about the emotional, spiritual or materialistic conditions of a person. Devote time in doing research before reading the contents of the card. It will help you give an intuitive result. Check your interpretation with the contents of the card; they are probably going to be close to each other.