"The tarot
card interprets life and future to the seeker." |
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Tarot
readings are arrangements of cards drawn from a shuffled
deck.
The
layout of the cards is known as a spread,
and determines what each card refers to.
For
example, the Two Paths spread is
used to understand an upcoming decision, and hence
it uses cards to represent the different options and
their outcomes.
Decks
- Tarot decks consist of 78 cards.
22
of the cards are major arcana (trumps), such
as The Lovers, The Fool, The Pope, and The World.
The remaining 56 cards are minor
arcana divided into 4 suites of 14 cards each. The
suites are Swords, Cups, Wands (sometimes called Rods
or Staves), and Pentacles (sometimes called Coins
or Discs).
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Although
the traditional meanings of the cards are the same
regardless of the specific deck used, the imagery
and language associated with each deck tends to
make it particularly useful for some types of readings.
For
example, many of our visitors find the Renaissance
Tarot particularly good at questions of passion,
mastery, and reason.
Reversals
About half of the cards in a reading are
drawn reversed (upside down), which either
negates or inverts their meaning. For example, Death
upright means "change", but Death reversed
means "stagnation.
ŠAnupam V Kapil
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