The Key To The Tarot
The tarot cards have much to tell you. To find out how they work shuffle the pack. Now divide the pack into three piles, and arrange them in a row. Take the top card from the centre of the pile. This is your guide card. Look at it for a moment and put it where, from time to time you can glance at it as you read through these introductory notes.
THE 78 CARDS IN THE PACK
THE MAJOR ARCANA
The first 22 cards – each with its own name, and numbered 0 -21 – are called the Major Arcana. The word Arcana means secrets, or mysterious knowledge. The secrets are held in the images drawn on the cards. Although each one has a traditional interpretation, these images also stimulate the intuitive, creative side of your mind.
If the guide card you have chose is a Major Arcana card, then its initial meaning is that you life is going to be changed by outside events, major challenges, big opportunities.
THE MINOR ARCANA
The next 56 cards are called the Minor Arcana. This does not mean they are less important; but they do work in a different way The Minor Arcana is divided into four suits. Each suit has four court cards, knights, princes, Queen and King. If you have drawn one of these court cars, then the person you know, or will soon meet, who most resembles the figure on your card, hold the key to your present and your future.
Each suit has ten cards, numbered one (or ace) to ten, if you have drawn one of these cards, then you are the prime mover, the one who can really influence events.
WHERE DID THE TAROT BEGIN?
The images on the tarot, and the interest in predicting events through symbols, date back to Ancient Egypt and even older civilizations, right across the world. Tarot may have travelled to Europe from the Middle East at the time from the Crusades, in the 12th century. The earliest surviving cards are Italian, from the 15th century
CAN TAROT PREDICT THE FUTURE?
It looks like physics is proving what psychics have always believed – that time is just another dimension – that can be crossed. So the future is already there, and is accessible to you. But the tarot does not dictate the future. Instead it is an adviser, showing how your past, present and future all work.
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Posted on Fri 10th Sep 2010 22:28:18