Julia Steyson - Tarot Cards-- a Beginners Guide of Tarot Cards: The Psychic Tarot Manual

Tarot Cards

A Beginners Guide of Tarot Cards: The Psychic Tarot Manual

Julia Steyson

2018

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Tarot Cards : A Beginners Guide of Tarot Cards: The Psychic Tarot Manual

By Julia Steyson

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Chapter One: Getting Started

What is Tarot?

T he tarot is a deck of seventy-eight cards, which are used for divination, for gaining insight and guidance on your current situation and your path in life. All of human life, perhaps even all of life, is contained within the images of the tarot. By learning to read the cards, you will gain knowledge of yourself, of your relationships with others, and of the bigger picture, the pattern of your life. Deep symbolism and many layers of knowledge are encoded in the images of the tarot, and by learning to read the cards, you learn to delve into these layers and the many ways they reflect our human experience.

As well as giving you the individual meanings of the cards, this book will show you the ways they fit together and the stories they tell. The tarot is a picture book, illustrating human life, our responses to the world and ways of acting in it, and this book will show you how to read it. The book of the tarot works on both an outer level, showing us the events and circumstances around us, and an inner level, reflecting back to us our emotions, hopes and fears and the way they affect our actions. Tarot is a language, told in images, universal symbolism and motifs, and this book will help you to become fluent in it.

The seventy-eight cards of the tarot deck are divided into two main sections, the Major Arcana or Greater Trumps and the Minor Arcana or Lesser Trumps. The Major Arcana can be seen as a psychological or spiritual journey towards greater understanding and fulfilment, of ourselves and of the world around us. There are twenty-two 'greater trumps, taking us on a journey through the great archetypes and energies which inform our lives, from the Fool with his leap into the unknown to the completion and success of the World. The Major Arcana cards show universal forces and life experiences which we may not be able to control, but which have a profound effect on us and the way we live our lives. They include figures such as the Empress and Emperor, representing the archetypal mother and the archetypal father, and heavenly bodies such as the Sun and the Moon

The fifty-six cards of the Minor Arcana are divided into four suits, usually known as Wands, Swords, Cups and Pentacles. They are similar to the spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs of a standard deck of playing cards. Each suit is related to a particular element, symbolising, in turn, a particular area of life. Wands are the suit of fire, symbolising creativity, passion and action, and Swords are linked to the element of Air, to logic, reason and communication. Cups are the suit of water, representing our feelings and imagination, and finally, the Pentacles bring it all into manifestation in the realm of earth, symbolising the material world, our work, home and resources.

Each suit contains fourteen cards, beginning with the Ace and going up to Ten. The number cards combine symbolism from numerology with the elemental attributions of the suits to describe the realities of our journey through life, our experiences of relationships and connections with other people, the work that we do and the place that we live, all of the choices that we make on a day to day basis.

The Court cards are the Page, Knight, Queen and King, and they represent personalities and ways that we use the elemental powers in our lives. They are a kind of tarot family showing our progression from youth to maturity and the different ways that we experience and act in the world as we grow.

Why do we read the cards, and how do they work?

M ost people think of tarot cards as a way of telling the future, and that is one of the ways of using the cards. But it's important to remember that we all have free will. The cards do not determine our future, our decisions and choices do that. What the tarot cards can do is help us to make those decisions, to look at possible outcomes of choices we may make, and in this way guide us on our path. The cards reflect our inner as well as our outer experience, so that they may show you your feelings around a situation, or your hopes and dreams, just as clearly as they show the situation itself.