High Priestess – Introduction to tarot Series

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The High Priestess – Tarot Card #2

The Major Arcana – Trust Your Intuition First

Astrological sign: By bringing in a Pisces/Virgo blend these polar opposites make a perfect balance of emotional and yet analytical reasoning.

When the upright High Priestess appears in a Tarot reading it is “Go with your Gut” time. In her balanced wisdom she is signalling to you that you already have the right answer within your subconscious and intuition you just need to stop and listen to the message within then follow that lead.

Being the essence of the divine feminine she is showing you that the very best of sexual chemistry is in store for you with your perfect mate. If he is not there yet, he is coming into your life soon and if there was ever a time for a soul-mate to appear this is it.

Now, when the regal lady turns she is then not to be trusted. The information she brings can be inaccurate and sometimes even untruthful. So if the Priestess is reversed then proceed with caution because “all to be seen may not meet the eye” and at the very least someone is manipulating the situation and it is probably not in your favour.

When the Priestess appears either way pay attention to your first guess and go with it.

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Tarot Blessing

This is a blessing to say when you are shuffling tarot cards, to make the tarot readings work out better, and to see the meanings of the cards more clearly:

“Silver moonlight, and Sunlight of Gold,
Light my way clearly as the cards unfold,
Show me the subconscious,
And secrets untold.

Show me what the past, the present and future doth hold,
Let me see clearly the cards meanings,
Be they bright and warm, dark or cold,
God and Goddess be with me, and bless me as the cards unfold.
So Mote it be!”

~~ Source Unknown ~~

Introduction to Tarot – The Magician

The Magician tarot card

Tarot – The Magician #1

The Major Arcana – Making our own reality

Astrological sign: The Aries sign brings with it the unconquerable, determined energy of success of your own creative power and doing.

When the Magician appears you will see your ideas turn from thought and planning to reality right before your eyes. Sometimes almost effortlessly we are able to create our own reality into something tangible and with great success.

In a reading it tells us that something wonderful in our lives is being created and we are empowered and have the motivation to do this ourselves. When you see the Upright Magician don’t be afraid, change is already coming your way, it’s inevitable and usually it is already a success – at this particular time action is our friends as we hold the almost magical power of manifestation.

When the Magician is reversed, like standing on our head we are feeling Topsy – Turvey or out of control of outcomes. We are only half engaged not doing our best and not believing wholeheartedly in what we are doing or what the outcome will be.Don’t get half into the game, get in or get out and in the reversal position the best decision is to temporarily get out.

We are being told that our current efforts are being blocked by negative thoughts; you are not ready to walk onto new beginnings. Study the situation and wait for a more opportune time.

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Tarot Card Introduction – The Fool

Tarot – The Fool #0

Astrological sign: An Aries zodiac tendency like the Fool demonstrates the same open-minded and adventurous spirit of the card.

The Fool being neither the beginning nor the end as zero indicates you are entering into a new energy and cycle. When upright the Fool and all experienced with it can be with childlike wonder. Bringing with it wonderful care-free energy with great hope and abandonment.

Something or someone new is afoot within your life and it is up to you how the adventure goes.

The Fool also brings the naïveté of sometimes taking foolhardy actions. Reversed it tells us that there could be delays, unexpected complications and perhaps unwise choices made in haste that don’t bring us to the desired or best conclusions.

Life is not a spectator sport – The Fool encourages us to take risks but it also warns us not to take careless or foolish risks. . The motto “Look Before You Leap” is best served when this card makes an appearance in your tarot reading, whether upright or reversed.

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Introduction to the Tarot Deck

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Introduction to Tarot

The Tarot consists of 78 cards; 22 are the Major Arcana, 16 Court cards and 40 Pips.

Major Arcana

Starting with the Major Arcana which I believe are indicators of things that have been included in our Akashic record or plan within each lifetime to be within the teachings of the lessons we have chosen to work on.

Within a reading, when one of the Majors presents itself, it leads me as a tarot reader to believe that although we all have “free will” to change each minute of our lives and thus vary our outcomes, situations and signs indicated by the Majors have a flavour of “what is meant to be” or part of our destiny on our individual life’s path. These visual metaphors help us to understand major events within our past, present and future.

The court cards to me usually indicate behaviour of ourselves or others within our daily lives and how that can or has affected us in our past, present and future.

The “Pips” are the details the incidentals and fillers of situations within our daily lives. How the story has or will play itself out. They help us to narrow down and clarify various answers to questions and offer the majority of text within each story.

Tarot readings seem to defy time and space. Meaning, I can receive an E-reading, on-line chat or phone call it makes no difference if the Quarent (client) is sitting with me physically within the present or not. When consulted with the most honourable of intentions the Tarot will most often present itself clearly, concisely and with relevant accuracy to both the client’s and sometimes after many years even my amazement.

The Tarot, like a language, has certain consistent and historical themes and indications for various card meanings. When then coupled with intuition and psychic input the cards can also take on a consistent but different meaning for various readers.

For example if I have someone asking regarding the outcome of their own or someone’s health and within a spread I see the four of swords , then the 3 of swords it indicates to me that the person may require hospitalization and the outcome may be difficult or guarded.

With the same question if I see the 4 of swords followed by the Ace of swords then the World card, it would indicate that they may have a hospitalization, possible surgery and then the results appear very optimistic.

In the posts coming up over the next few weeks we’ll follow through the various indicators and meanings of the cards individually, sequentially and also within their various meanings in relationship to their placement within spreads.

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Tarot Cards Introduction

A number of our newer visitors have asked for an article shedding more light on the meaning of the individual cards as they relate to a tarot reading. So today we have the start of a series that will grow week by week. Head on over the our Introduction to tarot cards page and follow the trail at the bottom of the page.

Be sure to check back often because we’ll be adding two or three pages every single week.  We’ll post an update on this blog whenever new pages are added.

LEGACY OF THE DIVINE TAROT – A Deck Review by Michele

Michele is a Psychic Advisor with Spiritual Guided Psychics.com and she has graciously offered this review on the Legacy Of The Divine Tarot, a Tarot Deck created by Ciro Marchetti.

The creator of the beautifully detailed Tarot of Dreams has done it again in his third and final creation aptly named Legacy of the Divine Tarot.  Ciro bases his RWS style deck on an ancient civilization, who left these Tarot cards as their final legacy.  The deck comes in two versions standard and special.  The self-published Special edition package includes an 11.5 x 9 fully illustrated hardcover book and a 24 x 24 inch reading canvas.  The size of the cards are 3.25 x 5.5 with a black border.  I also received a gorgeous gilcee print of my Tarot Birth cards. The decks were mixed by hand to ensure that each deck was one of a kind and yes, that’s right no two decks are the same!  the cards are large but shuffle easily and they have a wonderful matte finish.

In The mass market or standard edition the card size is approximately 2 ¾ x 4 ¾.  It comes as a boxed set with a 295 page companion booklet called gateway to the Divine Tarot.  The companion book is divided into three sections.  The first section tells The Story of an ancient civilization the Four Kingdoms and their seers The Blind Ones.  It also entails the creation of the deck.  The second section is titled The Cards and it discusses card meanings with commentaries from well known Tarot experts; Ruth Ann & Wald Amberstone, James Ricklef and Leisa Refalo.  Leisa also does the final section; how to read the cards, which includes several amazing spreads.   The appendix is short but filled with indispensible correspondence charts.

In many decks the Majors far outshine the Minors, but in this deck each card is a beautiful fantasy landscape.  The Major Arcana fully represents the Fool’s Journey, with the Fool making appearances in The Devil, Wheel and World cards.  The Knights are unique featuring ornate helmets displaying elemental creatures according to their element without an actual person in the scenes.  The court cards are titled King, Queen, Knight and Page.  The suits are entitled Cups, Wands, Swords and Coins.   The Hierophant becomes Faith and the Wheel of Fortune is called The Wheel.  The beautiful Strength card (one of my favorites) is numbered VIII and Justice is numbered XI.   Ciro incorporates a leopard, a tiger and the traditional Lion in his version; they look magnificent with the Amazon warrior. The Three of Swords which usually displays a heart pierced by three swords takes a different and very emotionally moving approach, showing a close-up view of a lovely distressed young woman crying as a single tear rolls over a crimson heart-shaped tattoo on her cheek.  The Queen of Swords is more calculating and cool than I’ve ever seen her and the Queen of Coins is just fantastic!  Each card draws you into a world of depth and symbolism that will leave you thinking about the reading for hours afterward.  The Legacy deck reads marvelously and is a wonderful choice for the novice or experienced reader.  There are slight variations in the two decks but, I highly recommend either one as a “MUST have” for your collection.

Many Blessings … Michele

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The Napa Tarot – A Tarot Deck Review

The Napo Tarot, created by Betty Lopez, is an Argentinean inspired, Rider Waite based Tarot deck that claims to have been created with the intent to demonstrate how we are connected to the Cosmos.  The author of this deck states in her introduction “…  the aboriginal mythology of Argentina skirts around mystery, destiny, and hope.”  Ms. Lopez weaves the cards of Tarot symbology and art metaphor working with the artist “Napo” with a touch of Astrology throughout the deck.

This south-American inspired Tarot deck is beautifully rendered by the famed Argentina artist “Napo”, who is known for his soft and eccentric cubist style of water color, imbued with a great whimsical imagination.  The individual card names are lettered in Spanish (soft blue) at the bottom of the cards and English (soft red) at the top with loose, large and easy to read lettering.  The Napo-depicted drawings are all upbeat, positive in feeling and quite charming. 

For instance: the major trump “Chariot” depicts a smiling scarecrow guiding a wood wagon with a whip, which is not in use but held high pointing skyward, pulled by two farm horses, one white and the other spotted.  There is an armadillo crossing the road in front of the two animals who’s eyes are wide with surprise.  Behind the scarecrow driver is a large sun rising on the horizon. 

The cards are 2 ¾” by 4 ¾” of glossy cardstock with ¼” white border around the edge softened by another ¼” border of soft water colored beige.  The backs of the cards are very simple with four five-pointed gold stars centered in a diamond pattern; the blue background representing the sky on a “summer night”.  The four stars represent the Southern Cross and the three Maria.  The cross symbolizes the four suits in Tarot as well as the four cardinal points, the four elements and the four evangelists.

I noticed as I was playing with this charming deck that the art of Napo seems to really fit with the card’s intended message.  Betty Lopez did a masterful job in working with the artist to convey the best of both parts – the pictorial art with the intended meanings – when creating her Tarot deck.  For instance the “7 of Cups” shows five pots in the sky with a woman’s head coming out of one, a snake coming out of the other and a scarf covering something out of the other while two are down behind the individual who has their back to us.  We cannot tell if it is a woman or a man and the picture indicates to us that this person has already checked out two pots to no avail and continues to try for the third.  Of course the message is “Illusion”.    The “6 of Cups” is titled “Memories” or “Recuerdos” and shows a male adult figure handing a clay pot to a young female.  The translucent block style used in the landscape has a nice effect of movement upward, downward and sideways.

Typically the court cards are represented by Pages, Knights, Queens and Kings for each minor arcana suits of Cups, Swords, Disks, and Wands.  This would be an easy deck to learn and work with for new Tarot students and readers who wish to add another deck to their repertoire.

The Napo Tarot’s imagery, while holding to the traditional, includes the myths and traditions of Argentina although without deeper study I wouldn’t be able to recognize them.  Lopez states that the Fool has a head that is in the form of a swirl which symbolizes the “whirlwind of ideas” within and the Priestess, Temperance and other majors seems to be fairly reminiscent of other Wait Tarot trumps with the artwork of Napo offering new whimsical perspectives.  The Magician becomes the Magus who represents a very well dressed gaucho living in the country and the Pope aka Heirophant represents Old Vizcacha from the book “Martin Fierro” by Jose Hernandez.

Lopez offers two spreads in her LWB (Little White Bok):

The traditional “Celtic Cross” and the “Draw of Four Aces”.  The four Aces are pulled from the deck and placed in a straight vertical line representing the four suits: Wands –energy, work, impulse, and intuition; Disks –money, and ability to achieve; Cups –emotions; Swords –thoughts, health and struggles.  (Not so sure about the health issue as it isn’t often used in Tarot decks per se’ for obvious reasons.)

The next step is shuffling the major trumps and placing one card to the right and one card to the left of each of the four Aces.  Finally, the cards on the right represent the consciousness of the querent, cards on the left represent the unconscious nature of the querent.

Googling “Napo Tarot” will allow you to view these pretty and vivacious cards.

This wonderful deck was published in 1998, and even though there are many newer and recent decks that are almost overdone, “Napo Tarot” still stands on its own as great Tarot “reader deck” and I would highly recommend it for beginners as well as advanced readers.   

Kristin Lee-Gray, CTI

Kristin reads under the name of Windstar on www.spiritualguidedpsychics.com

Card Images from the Napo Tarot

Napa Tarot

Tarot Deck Review – GUMMY BEAR TAROT

Okay, before you think what a joke – let me tell you the joke is on me.  I read at various online and on site venues including spirit fairs and recently a good friend of mine dared to use her Gummy Bear Tarot deck at a prestigious local spirit fair.  She also purchased a bag of Gummy Bears and put them out for people to enjoy.  What I noticed was how people were lining up at her booth for tarot readings and many had children.

This intrigued me so I asked to borrow her deck to take a look at it and here’s what I found:

The Gummy Bear Tarot by Dietmar Bittrich, is published by U.S. Games and is based on the popular  Rider Wait Tarot  that has simple cartoon-like coloration’s, using prime colors, of the different card depictions.  For instance, the “II – The High Priestess”  is depicted by a yellow colored bear who is cloaked in royal blue, wearing an even-armed cross and a tri-moon styled crown while she holds a sheath of paper.  There is a crescent moon at her feet and as with the Rider Wait style a black and a light gray (which I found interesting) column with the letter “B” and the Hebrew “J”.  She has a pleasant and knowing expression on her face.

The “XV-THE DEVIL” is depicted with a solid black background and an large orange gummy bear with two horns and a mean look on his face as he holds a flaming torch where he has just lit the tail of the white colored gummy bear chained to his throne.  In other decks it is clearly shown that the two so-called “captives” are able to get away.  But in this depiction they appear to be solidly chained to the Devil.  The red gummy bear is shown to have breasts and the white none but is the chosen one to have his tail put on fire.  This would not be my favorite card and I do think the designer missed it on this one card.

The “XVIII-THE MOON” is on track however and of course I expected there to be a gummy bear wolf and a gummy bear dog and lobster, but the gummy bear is depicted in the moon as a profile.  Cute idea and the colors on this card are in keeping with the meanings as we know them in the Rider decks.

The colors used in the cards of the Gummy Bear Tarot are not garish as one might expect using only the basic prime colors to include orange, black, red, lime green, hooker’s green, periwinkle blue, yellow of course, gray, purple, light blue, brown and pink.

Gummy Bears originated in Germany and are known there as Gummi Bears and have been around for three decades.  I don’t believe there is a German version of this Tarot, yet.

This unique deck is all in all very delightful and inspiring.  Life’s joys and challenges take on new meanings when interpreted through this charming portal.  Using whimsical imagery, the designer of this deck has captured the essence of Tarot and gives us a means by which we can work with children without confusing them or scaring them with some of the more modern versions on the market today.

This lovable deck is one I highly recommend as an addition to any Tarot reader’s collection.  And don’t forget to set out a bowl of the sweet-gum candies while you are at it.  And a special thanks to my friend Carol, who never lets anything stop her from experiencing something new and sharing it with me and others.

Kristin Lee-Gray,  CTI

Kristin reads under the name of Windstar on www.spiritualguidedpsychics.com

A Tarot Spread by Goddess of Tarot

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Goddess of Tarot is an experienced 5 star psychic advisor with www.spiritualguidedpsychics.com and specializes in Romance & Relationship, Online Tarot Readings, Business Predictions, Dream Interpretations, Spiritual Guidance, LGBT, Numerology, I Ching, and Animal Spirit Readings. in Clarity! A

Goddess of Tarot invites you to:

“ASK ME ANYTHING! Seek the TRUTH and revel in Clarity!  Amazing Accuracy in Love, Career, Spiritual and Personal Growth!

The heart, mind and spirit are often at odds and we can get lost in the noise of inner conflict. I will help to calm the pool of thoughts, see to the bottom and bring up the answers you need. I can teach you how to connect with your own Spirit Guides and to develop your own Psychic Awareness.

A lovely Sacred space is provided for your reading! Upon contacting me, you will be warmly welcomed into this space.

Together, we will determine what your specific needs are and what type of reading is most appropriate. I will customize the reading to your concerns and the information you require.”

This is just one of her many Tarot spreads she uses in her readings.

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