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    A Beginner's Guide to Tarot: Your Guide to the Cards: Meanings of the Major and Minor Arcana
    A Beginner's Guide to Tarot: Your Guide to the Cards: Meanings of the Major and Minor Arcana
    A Beginner's Guide to Tarot: Your Guide to the Cards: Meanings of the Major and Minor Arcana
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    A Beginner's Guide to Tarot: Your Guide to the Cards: Meanings of the Major and Minor Arcana

    By Kathleen Olmstead

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    Unlock life's mysteries and hidden paths with this quick and easy guide to the major and minor arcana.

    With definitions for each of the major and minor arcana, A Beginner’s Guide to Tarot: Your Guide to the Cards has everything you need to understand and interpret the meaning of each of the cards.

    For centuries, people have turned to tarot to discover more about their friendships, their careers, their love lives, and themselves. Tarot can help you forge deeper relationships with those who are important to you, understand why patterns repeat in your life, and discover how you can take hold of your future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 7, 2015
    ISBN9781443446969
    A Beginner's Guide to Tarot: Your Guide to the Cards: Meanings of the Major and Minor Arcana
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    Kathleen Olmstead

    Kathleen Olmstead has written more than a dozen books—fiction and non-fiction—for the young adult market and her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Fireweed and Taddle Creek, among other journals. She has produced, written and directed several short films and is always working on the next one. She is a part of the Arbeiter Ring Publishing collective. Kathleen lives and works in Toronto.

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      A Beginner's Guide to Tarot - Kathleen Olmstead

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      A Beginner’s Guide to Tarot: Your Guide to the Cards

      Meanings of the Major and Minor Arcana

      Kathleen Olmstead

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      CONTENTS

      The Meanings of the Cards

      The Major Arcana

      The Fool—0

      The Magician—I

      The High Priestess—II

      The Empress—III

      The Emperor—IV

      The Hierophant—V

      The Lovers—VI

      The Chariot—VII

      Strength—VIII

      The Hermit—IX

      The Wheel of Fortune—X

      Justice—XI

      The Hanged Man—XII

      Death—XIII

      Temperance—XIV

      The Devil—XV

      The Tower—XVI

      The Star—XVII

      The Moon—XVIII

      The Sun—XIX

      Judgment—XX

      The World—XXI

      The Minor Arcana

      The Four Elements

      Wands

      Cups

      Swords

      Pentacles

      About the Author

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      THE MEANINGS OF THE CARDS

      How are you going to learn the meanings of all those cards? Well, you don’t have to know them at the start, but one of the first things to do when learning the tarot is to become comfortable with the cards and relate them to your life. You will notice that some cards stand out for you from the start. Others will take a while to get to know. This is natural and very much like meeting new people. It might seem like a daunting task at first, but time flies when you’re having fun.

      Don’t worry if you have to look up meanings of cards even after you consider yourself a seasoned Reader. This isn’t a test. Sometimes readings are confusing. Keep in mind that you’re asking questions in order to learn about the unknown, which means that the unexpected might show up. It’s hard to know every possible interpretation—keep your options open and don’t be afraid to ask for help.

      THE MAJOR ARCANA

      These are the destiny cards—the trumps. When a trump card appears in your reading, you’re being told this is a topic you can’t avoid, something that demands your attention. What did you ask the tarot? What position does this card have in the layout? Are you being told of a challenge facing you? Are you being reminded of support that you didn’t realize was there?

      It looks like a tarot deck works in a straight line (from 0 to 21), but don’t let those numbers Fool you (pun intended). You’ll be a lot better off if you think of tarot as a series of cycles—wheels working inside wheels. Life is in constant motion (despite those feelings that nothing exciting ever happens!) and we are all affected by each other. We must pass through stages, one leading into the next as we learn and grow.

      The Fool is innocence and the World is experience. To follow the path from 0 to 21, first we must learn about ourselves and our abilities as we develop relationships with others and move toward personal fulfillment. Tarot helps illuminate the layers within us all. We are all multifaceted.

      0 The Fool

      1 The Magician

      2 The High Priestess

      3 The Empress

      4 The Emperor

      5 The Hierophant

      6 The Lovers

      7 The Chariot

      8 Strength

      9 The Hermit

      10 The Wheel of Fortune

      11 Justice

      12 The Hanged Man

      13 Death

      14 Temperance

      15 The Devil

      16 The Tower

      17 The Star

      18 The Moon

      19 The Sun

      20 Judgment

      21 The World

      Pay extra attention to cards from the Major Arcana. They are letting you know that something important is happening—something out of the ordinary. It may seem like something beyond your control or that requires extra work, but the bottom line is it’s a sign that shouldn’t pass by unnoticed.

      The Fool—0

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