List of tarot cards in a deck

Tarot cards are used to predict future events, advise, and counsel.
The tarot deck consists of 52 cards and is divided between major and minor arcana.
The major Arcana have twenty-two cards numbering from zero to twenty-one. The major Arcana of the Tarot deck are the stronger of the two divisions of Tarot cards. Their presence in a reading is significant. Read more »

How To Read Your Future With Playing Cards

You can read your future with a simple deck of playing cards. This practice is called ‘Cartomacy’. The four suits of a deck of regular playing cards are divined from Tarot. Clubs represent wands/ambitions, diamonds represent pentacles/material wealth, spades represent swords/ action, and hearts represent cups/emotions.

Reading your future with playing cards is actually simpler than Tarot or Runes. The Tarot or Rune cards are highly technical in their set up. With a regular deck of playing cards the detail will not distract a novice reader. If a beginner pulls out the card Ace of Spades from the deck, they can focus on Ace, which is read as the number one, and Spades, which represents action. This would tell the reader that something is in the beginning stages represented by the number one and it will take hard work to reach their goal represented by the suit of Spades. Read more »

Tarot Card Interpretation

Tarot card interpretation is not difficult to learn.

The difficulty lies in learning the significance of the cards that are intended for tarot card interpretation. The novice in the early stages of learning tarot card interpretation must rely heavily on the standard definitions of the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana.

When a box of tarot cards is purchased a booklet will accompany the deck of cards. This booklet outlines in detail the meaning of the individual cards. Factors that influence Tarot card interpretation are the suit (wands, cups swords, pentacles), numerology or ranking of the card (1-9), and Major versus Minor Arcana.

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