Practical Tarot guide: Major-Arcana card meanings and relationships – Introduction

This tutorial is a very personal work that comes out of my long experience with the Tarot cards, specifically the Major Arcana. I will concentrate on the practical side: all I see, feel and experience when I do my card readings.

This being a personal point of view, I suggest you don’t necessarily learn by heart all that is written in this guide, or in any book. I myself never did that. Instead try to understand the principles and the images. Let your mind-intuition guide you, listen to yourself and your hunches. One card can have so many meanings, most of all when related to so many other cards, questions, lives, etc. Read and “feel” the meanings; ask yourself:

• What are these cards trying to tell me?
• What is the relationship between them?
• What is their relationship to reality or that which I am asking?

It is important that you understand the symbology, archetype or principle-essence of the card more than formulas written on a book. Understanding means “interpreting”. But more than concentrating on the meaning of one card, it is very important to understand the relationship between the cards, the “whole picture”. If you add to this mix your intuition, than I guess there’s no stopping you!

Is my answer or interpretation right?
Please don’t expect to get the right answers. There are no right answers in the first place. Remember that a card reading session is time-bound. We are human beings with Free-Will. In this moment you might be headed in one direction, but if you change your mind, you will head in another direction. You ultimately decide how your life will be. Isn’t that good news?

How to keep track of my learning process?

I suggest you take card reading as an experiment, at least at the beginning. That’s why I strongly recommend you to have a diary with all your questions followed by the answers obtained in your card reading sessions. You can check afterwards if your interpretations went in the same direction of the events you asked.

Does the death card mean I’m going to die?
Negative cards are not really negative cards. We live in a dual world.  Like every process in life, there is growth and decadence, light and darkness, open and hidden, etc. We are all born to grow up, mature, grow old physically, die on earth as a material being and then be born again in other more spiritual realities. And this cycle repeats itself until achievement of eternity and complete realisation of God, our Father’s Reality.

The death card means that something is completely finished in order to start a new epoch in life. Death intrinsically implies “re-birth”. Evolution is universe’s motivation!

The death card is many times a desirable card. It can mean the end of a sad period in life and the beginning of something new and beautiful.

How do I ask the cards?
The information that you receive from the cards comes from a huge mass comparable with the mass of all the oceans together. One has to give specific coordinates in order to get an accurate answer. For me it’s like diving into the sea: molecules of water connected with zillions of other water molecules, carry my petitions and connect me to the answers. To some it may sound rude, but I feel it a bit like surfing in the internet. You can google everything!

It does help to first know what it is you want to know. Complete names and horoscope signs, birthdates or even pictures are altogether good in order to make better “hits”.

Before we start I would like you to know that I am here to help you with your cards, so feel free to make all the questions you want; feel free to contact me at: atika@mindspiritmotion.com

Continue reading the Practical Tarot guide:
Major-Arcana card meanings and relationships – Part 1
Major-Arcana card meanings and relationships – Part 2
Major-Arcana card meanings and relationships – Part 3

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Tarot Major Arcana: A story of spiritual growth – Part 3

Having made the decision to leave the comforts of our safe world and to dig deeper into one’s soul, we entered the second part of the story which represented the mind and our inner struggles to fight that which we cannot change.

Now that the opposites of victory and loss have been accepted, and balance guides our acts, we are ready to enter the third and last part of this story.

Stage III: Soul – Upwards – Heavenly

This is the last chapter where our hero (we are our own heroes) achieves his goals and the world: he’s free!

Have you noticed that sometimes before healing definitely it only seems to get worse? The same happens at the beginning of this final stage.

Right after balance and recovery of the second stage were set, life exposes dependencies and slavery to conventions; ego, primitive desires and the determination to get things “the way I want” take over. These elements remain even though reality asks for recognition and acceptance of that which we cannot change or control (“The Devil”).

It’s hard to realize that what one thought was completed is actually not ready yet. Burdens and slavery are still there.

Therefore, and once again inspired by God and the heavens, crisis painted by “The Tower” card takes over and shakes up the entire world. This is a deep cleansing action which finally burns all that’s superfluous and not spiritually constructive, all attachments to old customs are gone; they were burnt down to its roots.

Material and personality burdens are cleasend away.

This crisis can be self induced sometimes; but if man doesn’t make the necessary decision, life usually takes over, and those energies (guardian angels) in charge of guiding and helping us through spiritual growth and evolution are indeed involved in taking us through these necessary experiences.

Once clean from ego, after so much fighting with the world and one’s self, looking up to “The Stars” in recognition of the spiritual and universal values learned along the way: there’s peace and sweet joy.

The abundance of stars and the generosity of their universal powers wake the urge to reach out and touch them. It is the will to be in harmony with spiritual values: beauty, truth and goodness… enlightment takes place.

“The Moon” represents the long and “dangerous” path that is the search for divinity, the quest for truth, the way to spiritual growth. The shine of “The Moon” allows seeing the purpose or goal, which lies in the future (intuition), in the dark. You can also see that it still takes a while to get there.

After all that has been achieved and lived, the road has finally led home, the place where one is welcome (“The Sun”), where warmth and light reigns. And it is as if time never existed, it seems like never having left. Did we ever?

Time is inexistent; in Judgement day (“The Judgement”), after having gone this long and dangerous road, you are not only free of attachments or ego, you are free of fear.

Material/Temporary mind is free. The spiritual mind is born or has been expanded, spiritual realities are attained, and lessons are definitely learnt.

The consciousness of God (the Eternal Father/Mother), also known as Nirvana is the card of “The World”: True light.

This process of spiritual evolution repeats itself over and over again, each time at higher levels, in a movement that could be graphically represented as an upwards opening spiral; each round is bigger and wider. The end is in reality a never ending new beginning.

In other aspects of life, “The Fool” starts its process again, that free soul parts from its comfortable settings and sets about to conquer the world; the quest for true values is long and beautiful.

This has been a story of attainment of Universal values:
Beauty of actions, truth in our minds, and goodness in our souls

Thanks for taking your time to read this story!

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Tarot Major Arcana: A story of spiritual growth – Part 2

This story began with “the Fool/the Magician” in their safe world, where each actor had their usual role and place in society. This first stage represented the body and its outward movement.
With the decision made to dig deeper into one’s soul, we enter this second part of the story.

Stage II: Mind – Inwards

The second line of cards or the second stage represents the road of “insight”, our relationship with ourselves and our lives. It’s the inner world in each of us and our inner battles with life’s many tasks; but also the battles to try and let go.

The inner urge for fairness, the need to differentiate and judge, to choose to do “the right thing” (the “Justice” card) implies insight and enlightment (“The Hermit”). This discovery of the “right course of action” is felt at heart and is intellectually logical, it’s like a “click”, the pieces fall into place.

When you’re in the dark, troubled or standing before an obstacle or an event placed by fate – “The Wheel of Fortune”– and you find “insight”, you convert yourself from the enlightened “Hermit” into the card of “Strength”:

You come to believe that it’s natural to find things or situations which you cannot really influence; one can learn to live this reality and still go our way perseveringly until we master the task at hand.

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