How Can The Tarot Benefit You?

If you are interested in getting more information regarding the advantages of Tarot card reading, then read on. In this article, we will deal with the actual meaning of tarot, its origin and use, as well as how it can be correctly read and interpreted. As a result of the tarot card reading you should be able to evaluate its benefits for you.

What is Tarot?

The tarot cards contain a total of 78 cards in all. Each of these cards contains a picture that may be interpreted by the readers in varied ways. The reader shuffles the cards and a particular number of cards are drawn by the seeker depending on the layout of the cards. Each card separately has the ability to convey an entire story. However, when coupled together, they give an insight into the solution of the seeker’s problems or queries, or display the right course of action to be taken.

How did Tarot originate?

The tarot originated in the 15th century as playthings meant for Italian upper class people. It underwent a series of improvement and alterations and the pictures contained in them today are a later addition. These pictures give a lot better and a much more in depth interpretation to its readers. The number of cards in the beginning was lesser as compared to now.

How can Tarot help you?

Tarot cards can help you find answers to your problems when you feel at a loss about the actions that you need to take; or you can find out why you are stuck in a particular situation. Tarot reading can help you discover an action or can help you device a plan that will help solve your problem. However, always remember that it is only you who needs to take the action. The tarot can only give you an idea or a plan. Tarot can be beneficial in providing insights regarding your future, present as well as past with a hope that you will be able to figure out the ways to improve your situations.

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The Interpretation of Tarot Cards – Part 1

Tarot Card 0: The Fool
Symbolizes the principle of the unconscious, the irrational, the unknown, developments and domestic travels. It also symbolizes a genius mind.
(STRAIGHT UP) – Childish heart, intuition, optimism, impulsivity, innocence. Need freedom and independence. Thoughts and actions are often beyond human understanding. Originality, marginality, creativity, instinct. New start.
(UPSIDE DOWN) - Extravagance, destabilization, risk of madness. Inability to think for oneself, to walk. Blindness and unconsciousness leading to a loss. Unbalanced and abandoned to self’s whims.


Tarot Card 1: The Magician
Symbolizes the starting point, the momentum, origin, creation, an event from the beginning.
(STRAIGHT UP) – Activity, creativity, initiative, self-empowerment. Art of convincing people, diplomatic finesse, eloquence. Things into action, moving.
(UPSIDE DOWN) - Lack of scruples. Arriviste character, intriguing, liar, rascal, swindler, charlatan, exploitative. Use of tricks and deception. Weak will.


Tarot Card 2: The High Priestess
Symbolizes the evolution of underground things, the mysteries and secrets.
(STRAIGHT UP) - Inertia, meditation to reach a general or specific knowledge, objective design of an idea. Discretion, confident expectation, patience, resignation, kindness, goodness, vision.
(UPSIDE DOWN) - Hypocrisy, concealment, hidden intentions. Help and support expected wrongly, inaction, laziness. Hostile or indifferent feelings, immorality, rancor. Mystical absorption.

Tarot Card 3: The Empress
Symbolizes the intellectual principle, science, literature, projects and studies.
(STRAIGHT UP) - Discernment, reflection, study and observation. Idea which implementation is to continue. Education, knowledge, intelligence, understanding. Abundance, richness, elegance, distinction, charm.
(UPSIDE DOWN) –Superficiality, vanity, pretension, raises disdain. Susceptibility to flattery, frivolity, luxury, seduction, coquetry, snobbism.

How to Chose Your Tarot Cards Deck?

I simply love divining. Tarot cards are a great way to divine; naturally you want the best set of tarot cards. You want a personal set that expresses you. There are many different tarot card designs to choose from. Here are some tips, whether you are new or seasoned to tarot.

* Themes
Tarot cards can be found with many themes. These themes can be for love, wealth, spiritual growth and many countless other themes. As many tarot card makers there are, that is likely how many different themes you can find!

Choosing a tarot card by a theme is down to preferences. You may choose a set because of what you will be using the set for, most often. For new diviners or new tarot card readers, a themed set of tarot cards may not be the best option. A general Rider Waite tarot card set may prove more beneficial.

* Differences
There are differences between sets of cards. The tarot cards images are symbols which have meaning and touch the subconscious. The tarot card which most people refer to with tarot is that of the Rider Waite set by Pamela Coleman Smith and Arthur Edward Waite. Ultimately they all work, as divining works.

* To buy cheap or expensive
This is by far a big question asked by many. Is there any difference between buying a more expensive set or a cheaper set? The truth is that they both work equally well. They both can give you accurate readings.

Tarot cards are a powerful tool to gain insight into topics that are dear to you. They can help you and others find answers which nowhere else seems to provide, in our daily world.

A good tarot card set can provide many years of faithful service, and insight, and help you further your ability in divining.

How to Develop Your Psychic Ability and Divining With the Tarot

The Tarot reader moves into a changed consciousness, called a "flow" state. Attention, activity, and involvement are intensely focused without regard for a particular objective. The self-forgetfulness concentrates skill, knowledge, and subliminal awareness at the service of the patterns that emerge in answer to the client’s question. The results of this game include a feeling of connection and spiritual renewal as well as astoundingly accurate predictions. Divining and reading with the Tarots develops your ability to see yourself as part of a great interconnected whole, an awareness of spirit moving in and through the events of your daily life.

Tarot reading is a practice that enhances one's psychic abilities because it opens the psyche to forces and information that is not available through normal means.


How to Develop Your Psychic Ability

Be fully in the present. The more you are in the present the more able you are to tap into a "broader" reality – the reality that exists in a timeless, fluid, unseen world.

Develop excellent listening skills. As you listen to others more carefully, the better your ability will be able to listen to your own inner self with better acuity.

Nurture a sense of play with your developing psychic ability. Laughter, joy, joking, curiosity all enhance psychic ability. Just as our dreams use make use of irony, jokes and simile to get their point across, our psychic sense makes leaps forward when we open our hearts, drop our "serious" attitude towards ourselves, and play with it.

Put trust in your intuition. Listening to your inner voice, and say and do things that affirm, and validate the information you've received. For example, you have an intuition that your mother has something to say to you – call her immediately and tell her about your feelings and you’ll be surprised at how accurate and timely your intuitive information was!!

Take an attitude of openness, and strive to be non-judgmental.

Begin a Psychic Reading Journal. Document psychic experiences – remember to date your intuitions and write in the follow up when it happens.

Keep your 4 primary elements in balance, and maintain a full awareness of them. Fire, (intuition, passion, action) water, (love, flow, receptivity) earth, (practicality, grounding, body awareness) and air (breath, objectivity, intellectual stimulation). When these elements are out of balance in our daily lives this will impact on your ability to perceive and act upon information from the unseen world.

Surround yourself with symbols – especially symbols that represent your developing psychic ability like wicca, voodoo, magic and all forms of spiritual symbols. For example, talismans, amulets, love potions, totems, spiritual icons, art – this will constellate a deeper relationship with the unseen world. Make an art project depicting a powerful dream you've had and put it in a central place in your home.

Developing your psychic ability will enrich your life in more ways that I can possibly recount in this format! Most significantly, developing your psychic ability will provide a strong bridge between your unconsciousness and consciousness, deepen your faith, enhance your spiritual development, and guide you to your divine life purpose on earth.