Home Daily-Synch! Synchronology Symbology Sagenology Divination
Services Products Forum Blog Free Fun Suff Contact Us About Us Terms and Policies
MysticMindWorks.com a Division of BDBGE LLC.
Mystic Mind Works Copyright 2008 All Rights Reserved
Services Products Forum Blog Free Fun Suff Contact Us About Us Terms and Policies
MysticMindWorks.com a Division of BDBGE LLC.
Mystic Mind Works Copyright 2008 All Rights Reserved
The Tarot
The Tarot was unknown before the 14th Century; however, even with its appearance at that time its origins yet remain indeterminable. Arthur Edward Waite, whom we have to thank for The Pictorial Guide to the Tarot suggests that we may want to investigate the Albigensian sects as its birthplace.
The Tarot is symbolism at its best! Whereas the I-Ching provides us with trigrams and hexagrams and their meanings of cyclic transformation, and whereas the Sabian symbols speak symbolically through words of clairvoyantly-channeled visions and scenes; the Tarot provides illustrations upon which we may gaze for our own deeper understanding and interpretation. A picture speaks a thousand words, and the Tarot speaks a symbolic language rich in hidden mysteries, protected in layered meanings.
There are seventy-eight cards in the Tarot deck. Twenty-two of these are in a group known as the Major Arcana; the other fifty-six card are in a group called the Minor Arcana. This last group consists of four suits, similar to our playing card deck, of Ace through Ten, Page, Knight, Queen and King. The four suits are called Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles (or Coins). The Court Cards, Page through King, are often considered the bridge between the two main groups or Arcanas. The Tarot cards are used as an oracle of divination by laying them out in established patterns referred to as Spreads. The Celtic Cross is the most common spread and involves ten cards as in this graphic.
The Tarot was unknown before the 14th Century; however, even with its appearance at that time its origins yet remain indeterminable. Arthur Edward Waite, whom we have to thank for The Pictorial Guide to the Tarot suggests that we may want to investigate the Albigensian sects as its birthplace.
The Tarot is symbolism at its best! Whereas the I-Ching provides us with trigrams and hexagrams and their meanings of cyclic transformation, and whereas the Sabian symbols speak symbolically through words of clairvoyantly-channeled visions and scenes; the Tarot provides illustrations upon which we may gaze for our own deeper understanding and interpretation. A picture speaks a thousand words, and the Tarot speaks a symbolic language rich in hidden mysteries, protected in layered meanings.
There are seventy-eight cards in the Tarot deck. Twenty-two of these are in a group known as the Major Arcana; the other fifty-six card are in a group called the Minor Arcana. This last group consists of four suits, similar to our playing card deck, of Ace through Ten, Page, Knight, Queen and King. The four suits are called Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles (or Coins). The Court Cards, Page through King, are often considered the bridge between the two main groups or Arcanas. The Tarot cards are used as an oracle of divination by laying them out in established patterns referred to as Spreads. The Celtic Cross is the most common spread and involves ten cards as in this graphic.
By focusing on a question for guidance and advice, the energies surrounding the Querent are able to be presented through the cards. Questions are usually phrased in this manner: "If I were to make this choice, what would be the outcome?" The Tarot speaks to what is in your heart and mind at the time of the reading.
The all-time classic deck is the The Rider-Waite Tarot deck. The name--Rider-Waite--refers to the publisher and the author, our friend Arthur Edward Waite. Pamela Colman, the illustrator of these marvelous designs under the direction of the author, is finally receiving recognition for her great contribution to this infamous deck.
The all-time classic deck is the The Rider-Waite Tarot deck. The name--Rider-Waite--refers to the publisher and the author, our friend Arthur Edward Waite. Pamela Colman, the illustrator of these marvelous designs under the direction of the author, is finally receiving recognition for her great contribution to this infamous deck.
Mystic Mind Works, tarot, spirituality, divination, i-ching, sabian symbols, birth chart, astrology, horoscope
Mystic Mind Works, tarot, spirituality, divination, i-ching, sabian symbols, birth chart, astrology, horoscope
Mystic Mind Works, tarot, spirituality, divination, i-ching, sabian symbols, birth chart, astrology, horoscope
