Tarot Card Explanation

Many of the symbols found on tarot cards are similar to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics found in temples and tombs that belonged to Pharohs.

There is even one legend that the tarot deck was created in the fabled city of Atlantis. That before the city fell, the city elders and wise ones gathered, and fearing that all of their knowledge, wisdom, books and writings would soon be lost, they came up with a way to preserve it by hiding their secrets in a deck of playing cards.

Even a regular, seemingly innocuous deck of 52 standard playing cards is full of hidden meaning. There are 52 cards in the deck and 52 weeks in a year. There are 4 suits that reflect the four seasons in the year.

Clubs = Spring
Diamonds = Summer
Hearts = Autumn
Spades = Winter

The 13 cards in each suit reflect the 13 weeks in each season as well as the 13 lunar months in each year. The moon also moves 13 degrees during the course of each day.

That is just the tip of a gigantic iceberg into the hidden meanings inside standard playing cards, imagine how much more is hidden in the 78 card highly illustrated tarot deck.






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Everyone knows the tarot is used by psychics and seers to divination, but most people leave out what an excellent tool the tarot is for self exploration.

Once you've learned the basic meanings of the cards, there are lots of different ways you can incorporate them in your own personal journey through life. I sometimes just randomly choose a card to reflect on, especially if I'm having a bad day. Then as the day progresses, I think about what that particular card is telling me about what is going on in my life.

More times than not, the card I choose really relates to what is going on with me, and help me to reflect on my issues and that helps me come up with solutions to the problem.

Half the fun of tarot cards is the mystery. How do they work? Why do they work? What do they mean?

I often find that even the biggest unbelievers, still get in line to get a reading, when I take out the tarot deck at gatherings and parties. We simply can't resist, the lure of these colorful mysterious cards.

One of the greatest things about the tarot is that you could spend your whole life studying it and still never learn everything there is to know!






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Here is the best advice I can give to anyone really interested in learning the tarot cards.

Choose one system of learning and stick with only that one until you have it down. I say this because, just like there are a zillion different decks and books to choose from, there is also a zillion different methods of learning to go with each of those books.

Here's the "catch", I'm explaining the catch so you don't have to learn from my mistakes. How any one person interprets the tarot cards is ALWAYS their own personal experience.

This means that, each of those books are, that particular writer's personal interpretation of the tarot. Which means that if you buy 5 different books, you will get 5 different interpretations of what each card means. This is the aspect that makes learning the tarot such a confusing experience.

So knowing the "catch", my advice is to choose one tarot learning system and only use that one system until you personally feel comfortable with the cards. Every book out there has the same general meanings for each card, but only you can find what each card really means to you.

The Tarot is just a tool each person uses to make contact with their own intuitive abilities. There is no right or wrong, there is no one meaning for each card, if you go into learning the tarot that way, you will never learn it.