Jasmine Spark - Tarot for Beginners: A Guide to Getting to Know the Tarot Cards, Intuitive Tarot Reading, and Simple Tarot Spreads

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Introduction

This book is a guide for all beginners of Tarot. I will tell you a little bit about the Tarot deck, guide you through simple ways of how you can connect with your Tarot cards, how to do a reading, and more.

I will mention several times in this guide that reading Tarot is all about your intuition. This is important because many believe that Tarot is a fortune-telling tool. But, its not. The cards wont tell you when youll die, as many actually believe.

Tarot is more of a tool to connect with our intuition, which will aid and guide us in every aspect of our lives. Tarot is a tool to make us more aware of the things we need to work on. Its a tool that allows us to recognize our own inner wisdom.

As we continue to practice our Tarot reading skills and strengthen our intuition, well begin to make better decisions that will lead us towards a more soulful life. Our intuition is the best guide we'll ever have in life, and thats why Tarot is such a great tool to work with.

The more people who are listening to their inner wisdom and trusting their intuition, the better. Thats why I wanted to write this guide for you.

Chapter 1 - The Tarot Deck

The Major Arcana

The Major Arcana is the heart of the Tarot deck. These cards (also known as trump cards) consists of twenty-one numbered cards and one unnumbered card. They are the most powerful cards in the Tarot deck.

Heres a list of the cards in the Major Arcana, numbered and named after the traditional Rider-Waite-Smith deck:

0. The Fool

1. The Magician

2. The High Priestess

3. The Empress

4. The Emperor

5. The Hierophant

6. The Lovers

7. The Chariot

8. Strength

9. The Hermit

10. Wheel of Fortune

11. Justice

12. The Hanged Man

13. Death

14. Temperance

15. The Devil

16. The Tower

17. The Star

18. The Moon

19. The Sun

20. Judgement

21. The World

These cards deal with the bigger journey of life rather than the day-to-day events (as the cards in the Minor Arcana does). As a whole, they represent a path from beginning to spiritual self-awarenessfrom The Fool to The Worldand depict the various stages we encounter as we search for greater meaning, understanding, and truth.

The sequence of the Major Arcana cards has been referred to as the Fools journey. The Fool starts off the Major Arcana as the first card (in most decks), and if the cards are laid out in order, they tell the story of what happens to The Fool as he experiences the journey towards spiritual development, every card symbolizing a step towards that end goal.

However, the Major Arcana is cyclical. This means that The World, as the last card, represents the ending of one journey but also holds the promise of the beginning of the next journey. Once weve learned a life lesson, were ready to pursue a new one, which often means starting back at the beginning (as The Fool).

The Major Arcana in Tarot Readings

In any Tarot reading, its especially important to pay attention to the Major Arcana cards. They will offer you a bigger picture look at the question or concern youre doing a reading about.

If you, for example, are doing a reading with your business as the topic and The Fool shows up, it may indicate that youre in the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey, that you may be a little naive considering your business situation, or that you need/will do a relaunch.

The meaning of the card will obviously depend on where it appears in the spread youre using and how it relates to the other cards in the reading. But, a Major Arcana card will always offer great insight into the situation as a whole.

The Minor Arcana

The Minor Arcana, also known as the Lesser Arcana, makes up the bulk of the deck. There are fifty-six Minor Arcana cards in a standard deck. These cards are divided into four different suits: Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles (although the names of these suits can vary widely depending on the deck you use). Each suit has fourteen cards each: Ace, 2-10, Page, Knight, Queen, and King.

Each card in the Minor Arcana represents a situation in the day-to-day life rather than being an indication of the overall situation (as with the Major Arcana cards).

Each suit represents a particular realm of experience: actions, emotions, the intellect, and manifestation:

• Wands reveal talking, creating, intuition, and action.
• Cups ask us to tend to our emotions and relationships.
• Swords ask for mental clarity and is centered around the mind and intellect.
• Pentacles deal with the outer situations of your health, work, finances, and creativity.

The Aces, as the first card in each suit, represent the qualities of its suit in the purest form. They are, therefore, considered to be special and powerful cards.

The Court Arcana is the collective name for the Pages, Knights, Queens, and Kings. These cards are generally seen as representations of individual people and their influence on a situation. However, they may also represent a trait within the querent (the person youre reading for, whether that be you or someone else).

Pages usually represent a messenger while Knights represent a swift forward movement, action, and a change in a situation. Queens and Kings, on the other hand, represent the feminine and masculine ruling forces of their suit.

The Minor Arcana in Tarot Readings

Because the Minor Arcana cards represent our day-to-day experiences and situations, their appearance in Tarot readings show us what events and actions we have/will/can/should take in our daily lives. You can say that the Minor Arcana cards are the short-term tasks that will lead towards an end destination or goal.

You can also say that the Minor Arcana cards represent events that happen naturally due to our actions, choices, and overall human nature.

If your reading only consists of Minor Arcana cards, you are dealing with day-to-day issues. These issues will not necessarily have a lasting effect on your life because there is no Major Arcana card to indicate that.

If your reading mainly has Minor Arcana cards, but not exclusively, look at the Major Arcana card/cards to identify the bigger picture and how the Minor Arcana cards will affect/lead to that bigger whole.