The Major Arcana is made up of 22 cards. The cards are numbered from 0 to 21 with the 0 card meaning complete ignorance while the card numbered 21 is complete understanding. Each of the cards have a name and number.

A major arcana card is always given extra weight in a reading. When one of these cards appears, you know the issues at stake are not mundane or temporary. The issues depicted by a Major Arcana card represents your most basic concerns – your major feelings and motivations.

It is not unusual for us to experience lessons out of order. A person may absorb the qualities of Strength early in life due to a difficult childhood, but only develop the mastery and control that the Chariot brings much later in life. Someone may overcome the attraction of the Devil’s materialism through a life of seclusion, but then need to learn about relationships, a lesson of the Lovers, at a later time.

However, no matter what our pattern of self-discovery is, the major arcana shows us that wholeness and fulfillment are our destiny. If we follow this lesson and keep it as our guiding light – we will realize our true nature and gain the World.

ABOUT THE CARDS

The Fool depicts innocence, new beginnings, joy, fearlessness, and spontaneity.

The Magician generally represents confidence, individuality, willpower, new beginnings, and inner potential.

The Empress is associated with fertility, birth, motherhood, harmony, nature, prosperity, joy, love, and artistic ambition.

The Emperor represents paternity and strong leadership and should be positively associated with achievement, authority, protection, support, trustworthiness, discipline, provider, consolidation, reason, and willpower.

The High Priestess is associated with intuitiveness, understanding, wisdom, mystery, psychic ability, and the divine feminine.

The Hierophant provides wise counsel, spiritual consolation, knowledge, identification, faith, conformity, and traditions.

The Lovers indicate desire, new lover, relationships, physical attraction, love, and commitment.

The Chariot indicates triumph, movement, change, self-belief, assertiveness, and good news.

Justice is associated with justice, truth, integrity, balance, arbitration, responsibility, and fairness.

Temperance can represent harmony, health, moderation, compromise, peace, and self-control.

Strength depicts strength, willpower, compassion, patience, courage, triumph, and fortitude.

The Hermit represents introspection, solitude, guidance, advice, and patience.

The Wheel of Fortune represents destiny, movement, vision, good luck, new cycle, and synchronicity.

The Hanged Man means transition, flexibility, rebirth, deliverance, and release.

Death represents the absolute, both the end and the beginning and may be associated with endings, transformation, clearance, and sweeping change.

The Devil may represent permanence and commitment in a reading.

The Tower may mean re-evaluation, necessary change, and a blessing in disguise.

The Star is associated with hope, generosity, serenity, wishes coming true, good health, and spiritual awareness.

The Moon is associated with imagination, unexpected possibilities, and illumination.

The Sun indicates happiness, greatness, enlightenment, vitality, good health, love, and fulfillment.

Judgement is associated with rebirth, rejoicing, absolution, new potential, and rewards for past efforts.

The World indicates fulfillment, completion, satisfaction, joy, wholeness, and success.

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One tool a psychic may use when conducting readings are tarot cards. Tarot cards are often colourful and well decorated, generally capturing the imagination of the people around. Many people believe that the deck of tarot cards possess the power to reveal the hidden secrets to life however, it is really the interpretation of the reader that holds the power.

Tarot cards allow a psychic t0 receive messages for the person they’re reading for. These messages can vary the way that they present themselves for the reader.

The earliest variant of tarot cards is believed to originate somewhere in northern Italy, around the fifteenth century. This original version of tarot cards was deployed to play games like the regular cards but differed slightly in composition. Unlike the regular card packs, the tarot cards comprised of an extra 22 cards known as Major Arcana. These extra cards did not belong to any special suit and had on them symbolic pieces of artwork, which have become crucial in psychic readings. Read the rest of this entry »

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Today I had the extreme pleasure of speaking with Amanda Goldston from Learn Tarot Online. My That Psychic Girl Blog Talk Radio show is designed to hep people develop their psychic abilities. Today Amanda spoke about tarot and how it helps develop psychic abilities.

From this show I gathered some information. Most of this is information on what to do to help tarot to help you more. For instance some tips Amanda gave us were,

Listen to the messages

It’s not necessary to understand the meaning of the card however understanding them may help. The idea is to look at the cards, Amanda recommends that when you look at the cards you become very still and see what messages come to you.

These messages maybe visual, audible or physical, it all depends on how you receive messages. The thing to consider is that you need to be open to the possibilities. Read the rest of this entry »

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In this post I will talk to you about when the best time is to have a tarot reading. Now I think the best time to receive a tarot reading is when you are feeling anxious over a certain decision in your life, or if you feel lost or confused about the direction of your life and if you want to achieve spiritual guidance. If you feel as if there is a message the universe is trying to send you then this would also be an appropriate time to take a tarot reading.

A tarot reading is a friendly and personal reading of an individual’s innermost thoughts. These inner thoughts may be either unconscious or conscious thoughts that the individual is aware of. An individual who experiences a tarot reading will have their mind expanded, allowing the individual to clearly listen to the guidance of their heart.

In this expansion and clear understanding, you are able to receive answers to perplexing questions in your life. Many tarot readers devote their full attention to helping an individual retrieve this ultimate sense of clarity. This is considered to be a tarot reader’s code of ethics. The tarot reader must be one-hundred percent focused on the individual achieving a deeper understanding leading towards self-development and a more fulfilling life.

Many tarot readers travel, from different places located throughout different parts of the country. Several popular places to receive a tarot reading are Whole Self Solutions in New York, Grateful Heart in Wickford Tea and Herb Essence in Newport, and Sacred Stone in Massachusetts. When visiting one of these establishments you can be assured that, you’re receiving an accurate tarot reading from a skilled reader.

Another way to receive a tarot reading is over the telephone. This type of reading must be scheduled in advance. Moreover, it usually costs around forty dollars for a thirty-minute session. This is a great way to receive a tarot reading from the convenience of your own home. This is perfect for you if you live in a remote or rural area. When setting an appointment for a tarot reading you will be given the appointment date and time of your reading. It is very important to call twenty-four hours ahead of time if you need to change this date.

There are several different publications that offer to instruct you on how to read their own cards. This is an easy way to perform a tarot reading on yourself or others. Many of these publications are free.

It is said, “We were born to manifest the glory of God (universe) that is within us.” This power is within all of us and a tarot reading is a tool that sheds light onto that resource of great inner power.

A tarot reading opens our eyes in essence to our inner fears and self-sabotaging habits. That is why it is important to achieve a deep understanding of tarot and then to use this understanding as a tool that guides an individual towards self-empowerment. Many of us are stuck in life because of a road block or low self-confidence. Through the use of tarot, we come to appreciate our many unique habits.

By gaining a better appreciation of ourselves, we are able to make clearer decisions and to figure out how to achieve what we desire in life.

If you are feeling stuck or anxious in life do not hesitate to have a tarot reading. This reading, if looked at as a tool for self-development, will cause you to change your life in a positive way. When choosing a tarot reader makes sure to either checkout their website or look for  past customer testimonials. This will enable you to choose a tarot reader that is best suited to your own individual personality and desires.

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Many people question how a tarot reading can lead them on a path of self-development and self-exploration. Each of us uphold certain attitudes and beliefs with which we make life decisions with. Many of these decisions act as a building block for our future. At times, other people’s thoughts and beliefs affect our own decisions. There are also other influences in life such as spiritual urges, societal shifts and destiny. Read the rest of this entry »

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It seems that many of us are familiar with the popular phrase “as within so without”. This phrase has become a cliché that is commonly used by individuals who do not wish to claim and take control of what happens to them in their life. It seems that people are just as happy to put the blame on someone else or on a different outside source for the things that happen in their life. This is an unhealthy habit that halts someone in their life journey. In order to go forward in life one must be willing to step inside. Read the rest of this entry »

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Introduction to Tarot Cards:

            Tarot cards conjure the image of star studded gypsies giving readings in the back of a wagon caravan. But in reality tarot cards were not designed for divination. Instead the oldest documentation of tarot cards is in northern Italy during the 15^th century where these “trump” cards were first used in combination with the standard four suit deck. The first known tarot cards were found in the homes of Italian nobility.

            Documentation of the first tarot cards includes evidence that these first cards were added to the standard sets to play a game called “triumph” in which the additional cards, which depicted everything from Greek gods to the emperors and popes of the time, outranked all of the other cards regardless of suit. Centuries later the tarot cards began to emerge to the public as magic symbols. As the popularity of the tarot cards grew the additional cards began to take on new artistic designs that reflect the popular culture of the day.

            There is evidence that tarot cards became popular during the Italian Renaissance. This was a time of intellectual growth in which many philosophies emerged including astrology, Neo-Platonism and early Christianity. Many of these philosophies are reflected in the depicted characters of modern day tarot cards.

            In the 18^th century several occult leaders became interested in the tarot and did much work deciphering astrological attributes as well as the mysterious connotations associated with tarot cards. Although the cards did not originate as a divination tool they have evolved into a form of fortune telling. And a variety of styles of tarot card decks and designs have emerged as well. Historically, one of the most important designs is the Tarot de Marseilles. This style was made popular during the 20^th century. However, other designs include the Minchiate and the Swiss Tarot.

            Today a complete deck of Tarot cards includes four suits, coins, wands, cups and swords. Each suit has four picture cards, Page, Knight, Queen and King as well as number cards ranging from one to ten. Additionally there are 22 trump cards also known as the major arcane. The terminology “major arcana” is used predominantly in divination purposes. Game players using the tarot for everyday card games call these cards trump cards. But the name of the major arcana is not the only distinguishing feature. Tarot cards also have unique illustrations on the major arcana cards as opposed the normal Roman or Arabic numeral on each card.

            Arcana is Latin for mysterious or specialized knowledge, language or information that is generally accessible only by the initiate. These cards depict scenes, mostly featuring a person or several people, with many symbolic elements. The earliest decks were predominantly unnamed and some even unnumbered.

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