Jhone Daniels - 16 May

LOVE TAROT FOR BEGINNERS

Romantic Interpretations for Every Card in the Tarot Deck

Jhone Daniels

2017 Jhone Daniels. All rights reserved.

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Disclaimer: The information in this book is to be enjoyed as entertainment only. Nothing expressed here should be taken as medical, psychological, legal or monetary advice.

Dedicated to Eric, the King of My Particular Everything

Table of Contents

Minor Arcana

INTRODUCTION

Tarot is fascinating and fun. I find it captivating enough to have kept at it for nearly thirty years. What Ive learned during that time is that most folks want answers to questions about love, romance, and sex.

Of course, you care about your job or the occasional specific issue, but by and large people want answers to questions such as Does he/she love me? Is he/she the right one for me? What's going to happen now? and the daunting, Why are they doing that ?

This book will open the veil! If you have tried to read Tarot, you may have come to the conclusion that only about a third of the cards concern themselves with relationships and emotions. In truth, if you know how to look, all of the cards of the Tarot deck have meanings that fall into the Big Three of Inquiry: Love, Money, and Work.

Rare indeed is the book defining Tarot cards which focuses in a detailed manner on the LOVE aspect of a reading, but thats what we are going for here! Even a true novice will be able to do a love spread and understand what each card means vis--vis romance. Impress your friends! Dazzle your enemies! Win the heart of The Queen of Cups!

This book jumps right to it, and while I do provide a short and basic traditional definition before jumping into the Good Stuff, this handy guide is all you need to finally KNOW what to think about that pesky Two of Swords and the other ambivalent cards.

I am assuming here that you have a spread or two you like, and a technique of shuffling that works for you. I have included some especially helpful and classic spreads at the end of the book, but my focus with this guide is simply to give you a romantic interpretation for every card in the deck.

I also include an Outcome Card context, which can be the most confusing aspect of a spread, but remember: ALL cards relate to each other . A thrilling spread with a lousy outcome card doesnt mean all is lost. It just means: Be careful and smart. Know that the best way to read Tarot is to tell a story with it; each card is a chapter, flowing into the next. With practice, you will become so fluent in this language you will see the story unfold in front of you, and when it comes to love and divination, you will have a real leg up. But, before we begin, a little background.

HOW DOES TAROT WORK?

OR:

HOW TO MAKE YOUR CARDS CRANKY

When new to Tarot I assigned some qualities to it that I have come to modify with time, experience, and thousands of readings. In fact, it was many years before I truly came to understand what I believe is the real magic of tarot.

There is a lot of lore surrounding the cards, and it is difficult to know Tarot's true origin, but the first cards found using the symbols that eventually became the Major Arcana were in a five hundred year old card game called "Trumps" (ahem). Seeing some one's future in cards, tea leafs or entrails is a long standing human tradition, but I often wonder who was the first person to try!

So, while there is no true consensus as to How it All Got Started, it is probably satisfyingly simple and practical, like all human beginnings, and then coated in many dips of mythic embellishment over time, because that is one of the things humans do best: We make things important by all choosing to agree they are important, and then add a dose of time for gravitas. The amazing part about this is this often works! This imaginary important thing becomes real, and really works. That is a type of true magic.

Tarot is the Velveteen Rabbit of divination, and for this useful tool, I am very grateful.

Now that we are on the subject of divination, I should add here that Tarot does not tell you the future in a set in stone way, at all. Your reading is a bummer? Well, thats OK, because what Tarot does is give you a snapshot of your current state, and then suggests that, given the current circumstances, and only if you do nothing to change them, there is a likelihood of the following happening. The future is very fluid, and it is extremely rare that Tarot predicts something that is completely out of your hands to change. Yes, there are exceptions. When the Tower shows upsomething is coming down, and you are going to be a spectator in that experience, and soon, but this is rare.

So how does it work? I have a theory, and it is very Jungian at its core. Carl Jung (super-genius, and one of the founders of the general umbrella under which we tuck the practice of psychoanalysis, as well as a true mystic), brought forth the idea of the Collective Unconsciousnessand to wildly simplify that concept, it is the idea that the whole of human experience, the entire planet and every human and other being on it is a part of a larger energetic entity: the collective experience of the species Human.

This is an energy and influence of its own, separate from your own unconscious, and the cards, with their archetypal ideas (archetypes being fundamental human concepts found across all cultures: sun, moon, mother, father, love, death, renewal, hope, etc)tap into that energy and express it by showing you where you are going in the Big Blue Experience of Life on Earth.

Or, if that is too woo, you can think of the cards as a nice way to make you think; it is a symbolic kick in the pants to get you unstuck, or see things from another perspective.

Either works. In fact, they are so uncannily accurate most of the time that belief in them in order for them to work is entirely unnecessary. I cannot tell you how many readings I have done with someone who started out with crossed arms and an incredulous expression, and ended with open palms and a sense of wonder.

In the end, its important to realize that the cards are simply a helpful tool that can keep you aware, focused and creative with regards to problems, but you need never feel helpless to their presented outcome. You have all the power here, and this is just a window to help you see clearly.

And this brings up an important point! You dont need to read about the same question over and over and over and over. That way lies madness, Star Pirate. Use the following definitions and spreads to see possibilities, and then let it go until there is a new development. You can then read again, with the blessing of the cards, so to speak.

If you read compulsively, which I know is very, very tempting when you are upset or very attached to someone and want to know what will happen next, your answer will get muddier and muddier, and there is no comfort in that. The cards can even become tricksters after a while, giving you complete gobbledygook or hilariously awful, impossibly bad readings.

We cant have that, right? So respect the cards and they will respect you by giving you clear, accurate readings that excite, comfort and even warn of impending drama...drama you can usually avoid, if you are smart. (P.S: You are so smart!)

Turn to the chapters after the definitions for some of my favorite spreads, how to read them, and example readings.

ON REVERSED CARDS

While there is a tradition that says it is proper to read cards that land upside down (or reversed) with their accompanying near opposite meaning, Im saying it isnt, and I am not alone. There is no rule that says you have to do this, and frankly, if you are aware of the darker aspects of any card, then thats really all you need.