Tarot Symbolism

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 What is Tarot Symbolism? Each card of the Tarot deck tells a story. By looking at the pictures on your cards you can make up stories about the cards. Symbols of the Tarot are meanings of the images on a card. For example; using the Waite deck, if you pull out your Empress card you see her sitting on her comfy cushion throne, holding in her hands a 'scepter topped with a globe' (which means domination over the world), a 'crown upon her head of twelve pointed little stars' (which means her rein over the universe), a 'shield' lies beside her and upon this shield is a is the female sign and the shield itself is shaped like a heart (meaning symbol of Venus, the feminine aspect), all around her the 'gardens are blooming' (the fruitful mother, Mother Nature) and the 'wheat is growing' (sacred to Isis, fertility), the 'stream of consciousness' runs behind her.....See what I mean? The pictures on a Tarot card tell a story, but all the images have symbols or meanings, which may help to understand what the picture is trying to tell us. Have you ever looked at your cards and seen something on them and always wondered what perhaps that stood for? The High Priestess for example has one white and one black pillar on either side of her. The black pillar is marked with a ' B' while the white pillar has a 'J', have you ever wondered what these two letters stand for? Well with symbols it helps you to recognize that the ' B' stands for Boas - meaning inertia, darkness, and negation of activity, severity, the negative energies that surround us. While the white pillar is Joachin - meaning the positive aspect of life, light, and principle inherent in all things, mercy, positive energies surrounding us. These two pillars also appeared in King Solomon's temple, but that is another story. So by understanding what the images mean on your cards, it can help you to understand your cards a little better, and perhaps open up a new view on your cards. Below are the Symbols for the Waite deck, but this does not mean that these meanings only apply to the Waite deck, in fact if your card has a serpent on it, then the meaning will be the same for any Tarot deck with a serpent on it, the meaning does not change just because you have a different deck from Waite. BASIC SYMBOLISM Please note that in the Major Arcana cards are also known as “Keys,” and are used instead of the Major Arcana card names. You should already know the numbers of each Major Arcana card if you are downloading this, if not this is something that you need to learn. As an example of this, beginning at the top of the list just below this paragraph, you will see the “Keys” that different Angels are associated

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