The meaning of Tarot Cards.I have found reading the tarot cards to be an accurate and interesting way to divine the future and my clients frequently request a reading.
The way in which the cards are placed to ascertain their correct meaning varies according to a person's individual needs and circumstances. The method I use to gain strong psychic power is to have the seeker shuffle the twenty-two major cards of the tarot deck.
I concentrate on the questions they seek knowledge about, and the client puts five cards down, face up. The seeker then puts another card down on top of one of the other cards, because a clear picture of a situation is sometimes required. He or she puts the cards down one after the other in their correct place until all twenty-two cards are down.
Tarot cards date as far back as Ancient Egyptian times, when Thoth, the god of writing and wisdom, directed the scribes – the learned men of that time – to inscribe magical pictorial signs on clay tablets. These magical signs became the ancestors of the Tarot cards we use today.
The tarot cards are indicative of and represent in a symbolic way, the past, present and future of mankind.
Below you will see the number, name and outline of each card's symbolic meaning.
1 The Juggler:
Represents the will of God, the creation and quickening of life.
11 The High Priestess:
Represents duality and virginity.
111 The Empress:
Represents beauty and pregnancy.
1V The Emperor:
Represents material things and worldly authority.
V The Pope:
Represents sacred things and spiritual power.
V1 The Lovers:
Represents innocence, love and the union of opposites.
V11 The Chariot:
Represents exaltation and the passage of the spirit toward contentment.
V111 Justice:
Symbolizes the achievement of equilibrium.
1X The Hermit:
Represents puberty and hidden light.
X The Wheel of Fortune:
Represents karma and a building up towards one’s destiny.
X1 Strength:
Symbolizes strength that leads to ecstasy.
X11 The Hanged Man:
Represents the release of the waters of life.
X111 Death: Symbolic of resurrection.
X1V Temperance:
Represents change and transformation.
XV The Devil:
Represents the dominance of pride, ambition and lust.
XVI The Tower:
Struck By Lightening: Represents bitterness, collapse, violence and destruction, imprisonment or death.
XV11 The Star:
Symbolizes intuition, hope and bliss.
XV111 The Moon:
Represents the loss of innocence and the darkness of the womb.
X1X The Sun:
Symbolizes the light of true intelligence.
XX The Day of Judgment:
Represents the aspirations to move from low to higher things
XXI The World:
Represents joy and release from earthly existence.
XX11 The Fool:
Contains all qualities yet has none and represents divine madness.