The Tarot – Five Common Myths

Many myths and assumptions have built up around the Tarot over the centuries – many of them wrong. Some of the most common are:
1) The Tarot is evil.
Wrong. The Tarot is powerful, yes. It speaks directly to your unconscious, and the imagery is archetypal and certainly sometimes disturbing – but essentially the Tarot is a [...]

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Eight: the auspicious number

Eight has been considered an auspicious number from antiquity. It was thought that beyond the seven planets, there was an eighth sphere – that of the stars. As early as Babylonian times, the number was seen as connected to the gods (the god was said to reside on the 8th floor of the ziggurats). In [...]

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Intuition

Notwithstanding all the advances made by science over the last few centuries, which have seen our understanding of the universe change from the idea of a mechanical, ordered system in which humans stood triumphantly in the centre, into one where nothing is certain, all is flux, and humans, indeed our Solar System itself, are but [...]

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Nine: the cosmic number

Well, we’re nearly at the Decad (10). Nine has always seemed like a magical number to me – a powerful magical number, though some old writers – particularly Christian – identify it with sorrow and pain, as Christ died at the 9th hour (3pm), and the 9th Psalm apparently contains a prediction of the Antichrist. [...]

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Beginnings

If you are trying to learn the Tarot, it’s easy to get flummoxed at the beginning by the sheer volume of cards. Seventy-eight of them – and then there are the reversals and combinations as well. I remember when I was thinking about growing vegetables: I bought a book on how to do so, and [...]

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The Tarot: Myths, Meanings, Value

Welcome to Tarot Card Meanings Online.
Whatever your reason for finding your way here, you’re welcome!
This site began as a straight-forward tarot blog at http://tarotcardmeanings.qarf.com (and thanks to all the great comments posted about the old site), but we ran out of space quite rapidly and decided there was a lot more we wanted to do [...]

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The Intuitive Tarot

Having painted The Intuitive Tarot between 1973 and 1981 it is, naturally enough, my favourite. I always use it for readings except at medieval fayres, where I use Kat Black’s Golden Tarot. The IT is a deck for the discerning – it doesn’t appeal to everyone, nor would I want it to. I use it [...]

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Virtual Tarot

According to one site on the web, ‘virtual tarot’ is a gag. But tarot has the strange habit of surprising us, and on one site, the comment
‘the virtual tarot thing is just a gag, what you do is put a . (period) in the petition and write the answer, then actually ask it and it [...]

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Numerology meaning: Seven

Seven – the heptad – has long been considered a powerfully magical number – the seventh child of the seventh child, the seven-year itch; or the seven ages of man, for example. Arabic philosophers also considered that human development could be seen in 7 years stages, while medieval hermeneutics referred repeatedly to the interaction/union of [...]

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Numerology Meaning: Six

SIX
Six was seen by the Neoplatonists as the perfect number, as it has a wonderful symmetry. It is formed by either adding or multiplying 1, 2 and 3; the product of the first male and female numbers (3 and 2), and contains all geometric figures – point, line and triangle.
In biblical terms God was said [...]

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