The Ultimate Guide to Tarot: A Beginner's Guide to the Cards, Spreads, and Revealing the Mystery of the Tarot (The Ultimate Guide to...)

However, this card often comes up in readings to show a fear of poverty and isolation, rather than actual poverty.

The traditional meaning of this Five of Pentacles is financial loss, so when it shows up in a reading, it can mean losing a job or a relationship or experiencing some other financial or emotional hardship. The positive aspect is that you find support from others in a similar position. These contacts may become good friends whom you may never have m

chances XXI The World Success and completion

VIII Strength Management; endurance IX The Hermit Analysis; solitude X The Wheel of Fortune Luck; fate XI Justice Decisions; balance, legal affairs XII The Hanged Man Waiting; sacrifice XIII Death Transformation, change, and new beginnings XIV Temperance Negotiation XV The Devil Restriction XVI The Tower Breakdown and illumination XVII The Star Hop

QUICK-REFERENCE MEANINGS 0 The Fool Beginnings; risks I The Magician Action, ambition, and manifesting II The High Priestess Secrets, intuition, and learning III The Empress Creativity, resources, motherhood IV The Emperor Order, power, and boundaries V The Hierophant Unity, marriage, and education VI The Lovers Love; decisions VII The Chariot Prog

Swords/Air: I think—the mind Wands/Fire: I desire—the soul Pentacles/Earth: I possess—the body Cups/Water: I feel—the heart The court, or people, cards of the minor arcana bring an additional element: Knights: Fire Queens: Water Kings: Air Pages: Earth

Swords: the element of Air; the intellect and decisions Wands: the element of Fire; instinct, travel, and communication Psychologist Carl Jung famously distilled humankind’s mental processes into his theory of four functions, and it sums up the suit meanings neatly: Swords/Air: I think Wands/Fire: I desire Pentacles/Earth: I possess Cups/Water: I f

The Minor Arcana Cards The remaining fifty-six cards are known collectively as the minor arcana, and they are arranged into four suits: Wands, Pentacles, Cups, and Swords. Each suit has fourteen cards, from Ace to Ten, plus four court cards: Page, Knight, Queen, and King. The four suits each have a ruling element, and each corresponds to specific a

standard tarot deck has seventy-eight cards, divided into two groups: twenty-two major arcana cards and fifty-six minor arcana cards. The word arcana means secret. The major arcana denote important life events or shifts, while the minor arcana cards reflect day-to-day events. The minor arcana cards can be seen as being more detailed aspects of the