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Tarot Card Meanings

TAROT SCAM

Please be aware of a rather nasty scam in London involving people who call themselves tarot readers. They will offer a very cheap reading (around £10), probably giving some accurate information, but then will say you’ve been cursed by someone. They’ll offer to lift the curse and say prayers for your wellbeing – if you [...]

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Tarot Conference

The Tarot Association of the British Isles is having their 10th Anniversary Conference in Birmingham, England, on the 23rd and 24th July. Cilla Conway will be doing the opening talk on how to read with tarot and oracle decks simultaneously, Emma Sunerton Burl will provide a workshop called ‘Intuition with the Thoth’, which will be [...]

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Predictions…

Like everyone else, I’ve been watching the news recently with interest. At the moment attention is split primarily between Japan and Libya, so I decided to draw some cards about the situation. First, Libya: Asking about the outcome for the Libyans – Eight of Discs. That looks fairly good to me – the card of [...]

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Tarot Meanings and the End of Times

At a tarot cafe recently we were discussing the end of times (as one does – nothing like a tarot cafe to get some good discussions going). I decided to ask the tarot about this – is it going to be in 2012, as the end of the Mayan calendar seems to have indicate, or [...]

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Tarot Archetypes

If you’ve heard the term, but never understood it, you aren’t alone! Although archetypes are fundamental to the way our minds work, they’re not that easy to explain. Carl Jung, who coined the term, didn’t make it particularly clear either. He said they are preformed patterns in the psyche, based on instinct – i.e. very [...]

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Tarot Card Meanings: Origins

As an introduction to Tarot Card Meanings, let me start with what we know about the origins of the Tarot as a means of divination. The origins of the cards themselves are shrouded in mystery, though they were first described in 1377. It is possible that at first they were merely used as a game [...]

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Tarot Card Meanings – The Major Arcana

In our consideration of Tarot Card Meanings, the journey of the Major Arcana is the path of spiritual self-awareness, each card symbolising not only the choices we meet along the way, but also – deeper and wilder – the archetypes that underpin each stage, which can be seen as degrees of initiation. The earliest mystery [...]

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Tarot Card Meanings: The Magician

A sudden conscious awareness of your personal path in life; new initiatives, creative ideas. The directed application of will to manifest an idea or a dream. The ability to tread a difficult path with confidence. Awareness of personal values so that ethical choices can be made. The interrelationship of many different dimensions, and how these [...]

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Tarot Card Meanings: More on Reversals

People often find reversals – when the card is drawn upside down – offputting in the extreme. Indeed, many tarot readers don’t use them at all, preferring to interpret both negative and positive sides of the card at the same time. However, reversals can be very useful – particularly when the majority of cards have [...]

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Painting the Bones: an Artist’s Guide to the Death card

With the first crocuses out in the garden, it’s a little odd to find my thoughts centering on death – and the tarot Death card. The latter is often depicted as a skeleton wielding a scythe and cutting down King and commoner alike. Given that the first tarot decks appeared shortly after the Black Death [...]

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