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Introduction to TarotThe twenty-two cards of Major Arcana show complexly symbolic and archetypal images that run from the zero card, The Fool, to The World card, number twenty-one. These enormously varied cards represent situations and states of being that are quite personal and often spiritual or profound. The Minor Arcana cards can be further broken down into the four different suits that make it up: cups, pentacles, wands, and swords. Each suit has fourteen cards that run from the ace to ten with an additional four court cards – the page, the knight, the queen, and the king. Each suit has its own general influence and each card (the numbered cards and the court cards) each has its own unique meaning as well. Often the court cards represent actual people in our lives or aspects of our own selves including traits, talents, and our relationships. In order to use Tarot cards as a divining tool, a spread is chosen, a question is asked, the cards are shuffled, and then they are dealt and interpreted. A spread is simply the pattern of the cards, as they lay on the table. The Celtic Cross spread, for example, has a simple cross of cards at it's center and then a row of four cards to the right.
In all, typically for this spread, ten cards are required. Each position of a spread holds its own meaning. For example, in the Celtic Cross spread above, the top right card position (the tenth position) is the position in this spread which shows the future or the probably outcome based on all the previous cards in the spread. The card which lands in that position speaks directly to the probable future. |
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