Tarot Explained
What is Tarot?
Tarot is an exciting and useful tool that can help guide us in achieving our goals in life. Unlike other tools of guidance the Tarot gets directly to the point, brings your attention to the problem and helps you work out the solutions.
It is also important however to understand the connection of the Tarot with the future. Tarot is not a fortune telling game, it is not for a laugh or a joke, but a living craft that helps us explore the path of our life.
Sometimes it is necessary to know the future in order to completely
explore a topic. Tarot is completely in tune with your life, is able
to point out exactly what is going to happen and how or if you should
avoid something.
Tarot works only when three willing energy lines of divination are connected.
Three is a number in the Tarot that represents connection or a positive
energy flow. In order for a reading to work the following three energy
lines must cross.
Our readers' spiritual minds are open, and honest. The recipient of the reading must be willing to be read for, and of course, this is probably true if you are a visitor to this site! The presence of the Tarot card system itself provides sufficient energy for the reading to be completed effectively.
During this time the client may pose as many questions as they would like to the cards, as they do so their spiritual energy reflects back through the cards which then provides the reader with the solution and guidance of the Tarot. In the spiritual sense time and distance mean nothing, so the client may be face-to-face with the reader, or a miles away via telephone.
The Tarot is a set of 78 pictured cards, used for divination, meditation, and occasionally even for card games. They are the esteemed ancestors of the modern playing cards; the 4 suits of the Tarot: Cups, Swords, Rods, and Pentacles (or Coins) correspond to Hearts, Spades, Clubs and Diamonds, respectively.
The suit cards are called the Minor Arcana. There is another section of the Tarot called the Major Arcana (the Greater Secrets), consisting of 22 cards of deeply archetypal images which speak to the unconscious, no matter to which culture you belong. The modern deck has only one of them, the Joker, otherwise known as the Fool.
There are deeper reasons why the Major Arcana was taken out of our modern deck, and this reasoning will form the basis for my History. The history of the cards begins with a description of the setting in which the Tarot revealed itself: Europe in the Dark Ages, a vast land of peasants ruled over by their Landowners & the Catholic Church, and later, ravaged by the Black Death.
The "form" of the Tarot actually harks back to ancient times when Buddhist, Hindu and Tibetan priests used pasteboard picture cards as unbound books to teach religious doctrine to children and the illiterate while playing games.
In India, worshipers of Vishnu placed a portrait of each of their god's 10 emanations on the Court cards of their suits. Cards in sequence imitated holy processions in which certain divine images were carried, and masked, costumed humans impersonated supernatural entities to bring the people to greater understanding of the relationship between themselves an the Divine.
Sequential cards also copied the instructive picture galleries in the corridors leading to the Holy of Holies in Oriental temples-each picture meant a new revelation in the process of initiation--and for those who could not travel to the temple, these images could be painted on cards for their private meditation--this prefigured the Stations of the Cross, and holy cards in the Catholic Church.