Different Tarot Cards And What They Mean

What are Tarot Cards?

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If you don't know what Tarot Cards are, then you're in the right place. Card readers will randomly select a handful of cards and read them adjacent to each other, which will in turn spill secrets about the journey that you're on, the journey you've been through and where you're headed. Each card in the deck represents an aspect of your life and may shed light on it.

The Lovers

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Most typically associated with Gemini, the Lovers emphasizes human affection and interaction in close, familial relationships. It symbolizes excellent, long-term partnerships and, even when married, encourages those that have lost their flame to fall in love and follow their hearts. This card represents passion between lovers and Divine love connecting us to another human being.

The Hanged Man

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The Hanged Man, a somewhat problematic card, is about trust and letting go. It reveals how the heavens rule our earthly conditions via actual, grounded scenarios and challenges. This card encourages to feel rather than try to control emotion. The only component of the Hanged Man that stays the same when the card is upside down is his sacral chakra and the law of beauty and love it brings into our physical reality.

The Emperor

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The Emperor exhibits masculine dominance when things are organized and peace is achieved by courage. The Emperor is consciousness and light and this card represents entire self-reliance, loneliness and complete responsibility. It represents the strength of creative initiative and the significance of responsibility, but depending on the surrounding cards, it may be tough to balance.

The World

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The World represents completed tasks, accomplishments, and our Soul's lifetime goals. In a reading, the universe rewards our efforts and work on Soul-related difficulties and signifies a person has discovered something to halt a cycle. It could be a person starting something new, unknowing of the much greater forces ahead, but still growing, finding your goals and taking particular measures with genuine responsibility.

Justice

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Justice, a Libra card, symbolizes perfect order, relationships, and balance. It indicates our urge to organize, align things, and fill our surroundings with what we lack to keep worries at bay. Our reality, judgments, and success need discipline and organization. This card represents rest, where alone time is needed to understand relationships and limits in order to progress.

The Devil

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The Devil's simplicity makes it a good reading ally since it always provides Soul teachings that can only be conquered by self-acceptance and awareness. This card often symbolizes letting go of goods, objectives, and inflexible ideals that bind us to the material world that don't make us happy. Destiny, the fatal pull of souls, tests our confidence makes us angry, unhappy or even enraged.

The Magician

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The Magician, the first card in the deck, represents fresh beginnings. However, it's much more and knows all elements and life's magic. This card's upright stance represents the difficulty of sharing your knowledge and emotions with others. The card symbolizes word constraints in relationships and encourages building channels to allow trust and dependency.

The Sun

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After facing our darkness, the Sun symbolizes our childhood innocence and vigor. Self-liberation, self-love, and self-acceptance give us the energy to play, move, and utilize our skills without shame. This card illuminates everyone and represents the conclusion of a route that brought us a lot of grief. When one chapter of our life ends, we are cleaned of fading scars and mistakes.

The Moon

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The Moon card symbolizes suppressed feelings. It nearly always represents the darkness of our Soul, things we have yet to confront and mend, and is unsettling to see in a card reading, even when the other cards are deeply positive. It symbolizes dreams and subconscious messages we prefer to ignore or obey, and how our inner world reflects our personal relationships.

The Hermit

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Mercury, Saturn, and Virgo are all associated with the Hermit, who talks of underworld messages, loneliness, and celibacy, the deepest flaws of our Soul. It needs isolation and a calm ascent toward our objectives until we reach the summit of the mountain and find peace with our efforts. Pluto shows us how to heal, forgive, and outgrow the past, so there's no purpose in hiding from it.

Death

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The Death card is typically shunned, but not for good reason. Life and fresh beginnings all need death. This card signals change and informs us where energies have stagnated and need to be cut off, shaken loose, so we may go forward and let go of the past. Holding onto past emotions may create a poisonous environment that harms us emotionally, psychologically, and physically.

Now for the Minor Arcana deck

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What's the difference between Major and Minor Arcana? To put it simply, what we have in common is represented by the Major Arcana, while our individuality is highlighted by the Minor Arcana. Imagine the Major Arcana as the underlying framework of the melody, and the Minor Arcana as the infinite potential variants on that melody, if life were a song that could be performed by millions of different musicians. Now, onto the Minor Arcana...

Ace of Wands

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Ace of Wands, like the first day of spring, has a flaming core that unlocks all doors with its torch. It's the pure energy of a fresh beginning, the blessing of our body's mobility and impulses. It symbolizes a journey that will take us through many different experiences, and a readiness to identify and achieve our goals. It's a good card to pull and made even better by accompanying cards.

Ace of Cups

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The Ace of Cups represents aquatic emotions. It reflects our emotional base, our closest connections, and our deepest feelings. It is a feeling of home and represents our emotional commitment to issues and relationships. This card directly affects our Soul's aspirations and needs, thus it should be a message to follow certain decisions no matter what. It also urges us to be careful and sensible since our powerful emotional pull may push us too far.

Ace of Swords

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The Ace of Swords opens our eyes to new things. It can symbolize birth, since this is when an idea comes to mind and we take our first breath on Earth. This strong card reminds us to take one step at a time, as slowly as necessary, toward inspirations and goals. Representing total mental clarity, it connects the Sun and Uranus and all our internal battles that appear to divide our mind from reality.

Ace of Pentacles

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The Ace of Pentacles (or Coins or Discs) represents material growth and goal-setting. Since Earth is slow yet real, it demands patience and clarity. As long as we stay motivated, there is confidence and energy to overcome any challenge. It's a metaphorical leap from the cliff into the unknown world, and ties our bodies to others. We should be as sensitive and gentle with our emotions as possible to observe how we feel with every single step.

Two of Wands

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Two of Wands demands patience to wait for a situation to clear up. With the world in our hands, it might be challenging to concentrate on our immediate objectives and decisions. Our efforts may be misguided, and our energy may be split between the past and the future. Our inner world is in turmoil, diverting us from concentration. It is the card of self-doubt, uncertainty in making decisions and obeying both an exterior and inner authority at the same time.

Three of Cups

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The Three of Cups represents exchanging honest and sensitive information with loved ones and finding a position in social circles that meet our emotional requirements. It brings self-expression and communal support to our door. It contains feminine energy, trustworthy individuals, and a sense of belonging. No one is absent, and brainstorming makes everyone happy and creative.

Four of Swords

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The Four of Swords is a tranquil period of thought, relaxation, and recovery following the sacrifice and hurt of the Three of Swords. This card connects us to our core, our ancestors, and the journey we had to go through to rise again. It's like rebuilding a skeleton on a new emotional base to rise and remember while reveling in pleasure, laughing, and closeness.

Five of Pentacles

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The Five of Pentacles, representing fallen Jupiter, symbolizes how we are caught in predicaments and cannot go forward no matter how hard we try. This card usually symbolizes loss, limitation, no purpose, and failed collaboration. We get caught up in communal views and let them define our work and life, not realizing that there are alternative options if we look outside the box.

Six of Wands

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The Six of Wands, the card of success and leadership, was formerly used to declare war after the inner flames had subsided, but times have changed and its morality has improved. People gather to follow a daring and charismatic leader who inspires and pours their life into others. It celebrates our victories against the Five of Wands, so is a card to be cherished.

Seven of Swords

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The Seven of Swords appears to highlight how many minor obstacles may stand in our way to test us. It's the reality we don't want to see—our ego's greatest vulnerability, where we strive to be stronger and concentrate on our goals. This card's mental battle and capability are vast, and as our consciousness expands, we'll discover that we don't require affirmation from our surroundings, just belief that we are moving in the right direction.

Eight of Pentacles

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The Eight of Pentacles represents our will to overcome any obstacle. After choosing a course, following a plan, and reaching this stage, it proposes a difficult conundrum and asks us to process information. Ultimately, the Eight of Pentacles emphasizes that we have enough energy to get everything done, but we need to prioritize. As long as we keep to our motivation, everything will work out.

Nine of Wands

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The Nine of Wands offers Saturn's best advice: be kind with yourself when your energy is depleted. It demands balance, supports connections, and allows time for relaxation. This card arrives after the storms have passed and their dust has settled, yet we still know that things are not finished. To continue what we began, we must follow our physiology and check our routine, feed our body, rest our muscles, and do anything to replenish our batteries.

Ten of Cups

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The Ten of Cups shares efforts, feelings, and joys with a group, family, or team. It gives us a feeling of community and personal satisfaction. It may speak of personal-collective balance or imbalance and call for quiet time and thought, as well as brainstorming with friends and coworkers, until we discover the proper formula for balance. We may have discovered our tribe and have a lot to contribute and enjoy in a group, but if we violate our boundaries to fit in, we may lose our own worth and authenticity.

Page of Swords

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The Princess of Swords represents our childhood ideas, beliefs, and enthusiastic, inquiring minds. When given the opportunity, she realizes amazing ideas. She works anonymously for humanity, thus there is little place for a big ego. This card's teachings are largely about our physiology and real-world improvements we can make rapidly if we focus. She provides fresh insights and talks of brainstorming and amazing ideas.

Knight of Pentacles

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The Knight of Pentacles connects Fire and Earth, giving it the power to produce life. Still, with each knight's flaming wants, it's hard to adjust to the forces' sluggish speed, and inconsistency can come about if we're not patient. Our impatient inner child may think that investing effort into what we desire is pointless. We must use the aims and objectives to motivate us.

Queen of Wands

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The Queen of Wands represents a good balance between the feminine, patient and nurturing, emphasizing Fire's initiative and might. She is human and kind and the one to help others thrive. She respects herself first, is respectable, and will leave someone stranded if they won't accept responsibility for their actions. She's a caring leader with clear objectives and the empathy to achieve them with cooperation and others' abilities.

King of Cups

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The King of Cups is the emotional world's supreme authority. He is control, which can come across as coldness of heart, guarding us from poisonous interactions or the steady capacity to pursue our own emotions with care. He represents the deepest self-knowledge, where we recognize and accept our emotional reality as it is. If we are on the wrong road, this card may suggest we look for sensible answers, clear of emotion.