The Occult

Tarot card meaning is what gives power to interpretations and predictions; each card represents something in relation to the symbol it pictures. What we often fail to understand is that the full tarot card meaning comes from the spread or the combined explanations of the cards for the question of the life issue you expect to learn more about. For instance, in the Rider Waite tarot, the tarot learner has to know the meaning for all the seventy eight cards in order to be able to read them. From the Fool to the Queen and the King, the tarot cards can be studied, analyzed and understood depending on the sensible nature of every user.

Tarot card reading has evolved over the years; for people who have a more profound knowledge of the Kabbalah or alchemy, the similarity of symbols could be pretty striking. Thus, all sorts of symbols have been added in time so that the present-day form of the decks is a very complex one. It is also common practice to complicate things even further by personalizing the cards and adding other subtle interpretations to the decks. Thus, many amateur philosophers have their own interpretations of the mystic representations in alchemy and the Kabbalah and they choose to add them to the cards.

The tarot card meaning greatly varies depending on the interpretation; thus, a single card receives different explanations in relation with the position it occupies in the spread and the vicinity with the rest of the cards. Very often, according to the reader’s own judgment and common sense, a tarot card meaning can be discarded as irrelevant for the question that is under discussion. The cards in the Major Arcana insist on a distinct symbolism, while those in the Minor Arcana stand for the traditional alchemical elements. Thus, the swords correspond to the air, the cups to the water, the pentagrams/circles to the earth and the wands to fire.

In short, the tarot card meaning represents a possible choice along one’s life journey: is one on the right path or has one strayed away? This tarot card meaning is obvious for the spreads in the Major Arcana where life aspects have correspondent cards: the fool represents the beginning of a journey, the magician shows you the way towards wisdom, the high priestess indicates the level of self-balance, the empress points to love, wealth and pleasure, while the emperor is the expression of power and authority, and so on and so forth.

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