What is Tarot
How it Works
Real Psychics have many tools at their disposal when giving a physic reading. From looking into crystal balls to reading tea leaves or reading your palm - there are countless ways to predict the future. Tarot is one of them. However, a good tarot reader never claims the predictions made to be absolute. Speaking of readings, the first thing to know is that there actually are two different types of Tarot readings: question readings and open readings. In question readings, you are addressing a specific question. Tarot is not intended to answer specific yes or no questions. Most say it also shouldn't be used to make decisions, but instead should be used as a guide to help you make the decision yourself. For this reason, the way a question is stated is very important. And as a reader for past many years, I always advice my clients to ask for options and directional insights rather that straight up solutions.
Keep your options open: If you have the answer before the reading, then you're not allowing the cards to guide your overall decision, For example: Asking how you could encourage your mother-in-law to move out, as opposed to asking how you can get along better with her, is narrowing the scope of the true question by answering it before you even get started.
Find the best level of detail: Your question should be focused but not overly detailed. Rather than looking at one aspect of a problem, find a way to look more broadly at it. For example, rather than asking how you can make your home life less chaotic, ask how you can better balance the family's schedules. That's a focused question. But do not go so far as to ask how you can coordinate gym, office and cricket schedules and still have family time — that's too detailed. Only include the minimum level of detail needed in order to express what you want to learn from the cards. Today's Tarot deck has fixed upon the 78 card standard that was popular in Northern Italy during the 16th century.
The original deck has two parts namely, major arcana and minor arcana. Arcana refers to archetypes or personalities. The cards of the Major Arcana usually represent significant issues in the life of the Querent. They are key principles core to human life, such as life and death, ethical dilemmas, spirituality, and interaction with other people. One can view the Major Arcana as spiritual chart that the Querent can use to plot their course as they make their journey through life and beyond. The Minor Arcana often deal with the mundane and superficial, and how the Querent reacts to them. However, when doing a reading the distinctions between Minor and Major often blur, as the cards interact with each other and paint a seamless picture of the Querent's life and influences.
The following Tarot card meanings are the interpretations I have been using for decades, evolving from years of experience and study. There are no "correct" or "right" interpretations of the cards, but these foundations should guide you towards the answers you seek.
For many people, a "Tarot card reading" means a woman in flowing robes, leaning over a small table in a candlelit room, foretelling impending doom.
But that's not really what Tarot cards are about. As the occult organization The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn says, "The most powerful sources of information come from within; the Tarot aids in coming in contact with one's Higher Self."
Tarot is a divination that allows to tap into your subconscious mind. As a reader, I only assist you to interpret the meaning of the position in which a particular card appears. Tarot readings can work when done both online and offline. And here's how it works:
Ancient Egyptian tablet written in 200 BC first mentioned the popular quote "As above so below" describing how we are mere reflections of the macrocosm and vice-versa . In Hinduism, they say god is within us, and in Christianity they say we are reflections of god.
Scientifically, the superconscious or the collective consciousness of the universe and our subconscious mind are also connected and how? through energy exchange. And since this energy can only be tapped into through visual aids - tarot serves as a medium to do so.