The Meaning of Tarot Cards

What is the meaning of Tarot? When you look in a dictionary, you will probably find it says something like this. ” A set of seventy-eight playing cards, which includes twenty-two cards representing virtues, vices, and elemental forces, used in fortune telling/ Tarot card reading.

However this is a very simplistic view because Tarot meanings are different for each individual card. Lets first take a look at a pack of cards, which are used for Tarot card reading. As already stated there are seventy-eight cards, and twenty-two are more symbolic and divinatory in their Tarot meanings. These are usually referred to as The Major Arcana. Not only do these cards have individual Tarot meanings, but also they are individually illustrated and named.

The Major Arcana used for Tarot card reading are numbered naught to twenty-one. The Tarot meaning for each card stands for a stage in our journey through life and the experiences we face along the path. We start out with the fool. He represents all of us as we begin our life’s journey. A simple, innocent with his head high, letting his arms fly wide, ready to welcome whatever may come his way, and totally unaware of the lessons he has to learn, or the hardships he will have to face.

When giving a Tarot card reading, The Fool, at zero, to some extent, stands away from the rest of the Major Arcana. The Tarot meaning for this card, as its number zero represents, stands balanced between positive and negative. The fool is bizarrely empty, but instilled with a desire to venture out and learn. This mission seems to be reckless, but is it?

Once on his journey The Fool meets two other cards that you will come across when giving a Tarot card reading, The Magician and The High Priestess, who are the great balancing forces of the perceived world. They are necessary because a characteristic of the material world is that the moment we name an experience; by design we evoke the opposite. The Tarot meaning of The Magician is representative of the masculine, positive active and creative side and our conscious awareness.

However in a Tarot card reading, The High Priestess has the opposite Tarot meaning, standing on the side of negativity. She is the mysterious unconscious that provides us with fertile ground for events to happen, and our unrealized potential to express its self.
Learning Tarot card reading and the Tarot meanings develops your psychic skills and uses these three characters, together with the rest of deck, to help you through the ups and downs of your journey. You may like to learn more about Psychic Tarot Cards Reading.