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Tarot Predictions and Tarot Card Meaning
Tarot predictions and interpretation heavily rely on tarot card meaning without which they would not be possible; each card has a significance and a peculiar symbolism attached to it. What people don’t get to understand is that the full tarot card meaning comes from the spread or the combined explanations of the cards for the question of the life issue you expect to learn more about. In the Rider Waite tarot, there are seventy-eight cards, and the first step beginners have to take is to learn what each of them means. From the King and the Queen to the Fool, the tarot cards can be studied, analyzed and understood in accordance with the every user’s sensibility.
Tarot card reading has evolved over the years; for people who are no strangers to the Kabbalah or alchemy, the similarity of symbols could be pretty striking. Thus, with symbols being added on all sorts of occasions, the decks we have available at present are very complex. It is also common practice to complicate things even further by personalizing the cards and adding other subtle interpretations to the decks. Thus, many amateur philosophers have their own interpretations of the mystic representations in alchemy and the Kabbalah and they choose to add them to the cards.
The tarot card meaning changes depending on the reading; thus, a single card receives different explanations based on the location of the card in the spread and the meaning of the other cards in its vicinity. Very often, according to the reader’s own common sense and judgment, a tarot card meaning can prove little relevance for the question under debate and thus be discarded. The cards in the Major Arcana insist on a distinct symbolism, while those in the Minor Arcana stand for the traditional alchemical elements. Thus, the pentagrams stand for earth, the wands for fire, the cups for water and the swords for air.
In short, the tarot card meaning represents a possible choice along one’s life journey: sometimes one can even see whether one is on the right path or has strayed away. This tarot card meaning normally results from the spreads in the Major Arcana where each card matches a certain life aspect: the fool stands for the beginning of a journey, the magician indicates the way towards wisdom, the high priestess speaks of self-balance, the empress points to pleasure, wealth and love, while the emperor represents claimed power and authority, and so on and so forth.