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Working with the Tarot for Self-awareness (Part One)

We may never know for certain why the Tarot was developed, but given that the focus of medieval society was spiritual, we can be fairly sure that it had a spiritual underpinning.
Today, however, most taroists see the Majors as a concise and powerful description of the journey into self-awareness. Each one represents not only a [...]

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Tarot readings online?

There are various sites offering free tarot readings online. Some are excellent, some just passable. One of the best (at least in my view!) was produced by a friend of mine and offers different spreads from a selection of tarot and oracle decks. Have a go – www.students-of-tarot.com/it -  feedback from readings is excellent. The [...]

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Twelve: The Sacred Gates

Twelve: 4×3; 6×2; 7+5, 10+2. We should now be able to intuit why the number is so potent when we look at the combinations of these numbers. Twelve is a culmination of the first part of the journey through the Major Arcana: a gateway between the physical world and the unknown. The Hanged Man is [...]

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TEN – Completion and the start of a new cycle

The number ten must have signified the limits of our counting for millennia – our ten fingers. Ten contains all natural numbers – 1+2+3+4 = 10, and is represented by an equilateral triangle.

Ten serves as the basis for the now ubiquitous decimal system (as opposed to fractions), simplifying mathematics and allowing the formulation of far [...]

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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 basic, [...]

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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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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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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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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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