Reading Tarot Cards

The tarot deck is split into two categories: major arcana and minor arcana. Arcana is latin for “life secrets”. Then the minor arcana is further split into 4 categories representing the elements. These elements are fire, air, earth and water. For centuries it’s been believed that life cannot exist without these 4 elements. Consider that without air we could not breathe, without fire we would have no sun, without water we couldn’t survive and without earth we wouldn’t exist.

The minor arcana 4 categories are also known as suits wands, cups, swords and coins (or pentacles). Wands relates to your career and intellectual activities. Cups is all about emotions, love, and pleasure. Swords relates to struggles, difficulties and illness. Coins (Earth) deals with the material world, finances and property.

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Are you new to learning tarot card definitions? Tarot reading can help you gain a better understanding of issues relating to your life and your soul. Every card in a tarot deck has a specific meaning, which is how we go about interpreting tarot cards to develop a reading and offer insight.

There are 78 cards in a tarot deck. The cards are divided into two parts. These are called “major arcana” and “minor arcana”. It can be difficult at first to gain tarot carts major and minor understanding. The minor arcana contains 56 cards and the major arcana contains 22 cards. And furthermore, the minor arcana is divided into 4 categories. These are earth, water, fire and air and each contain 14 cards. Generally you can gleam the meaning of of each tarot card by looking at it’s picture.

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