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Working With the Tarot Aces

by Johanne Blanchard
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The tarot Aces. They are most often welcomed in a draw, as they inspire newness in many aspects: growth, challenges, ideas, love, opportunities, perspectives… New everything! They are usually seen as positive, if you are ready for change or to see things with a new vision. I always get inspired when an Ace comes my [...]

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Past, Present, Future Tarot Spread

by Catherine
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One of the first tarot spreads we learn as budding Tarot readers is the classic Past, Present, Future Tarot Spread. It can be found in nearly all Tarot deck companion books and is featured in a large number of other tarot books too. This is for good reason – it’s a nice simple spread that’s [...]

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Ancestral Patterns of Life: The Tarot

by Nikki Mackay
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by Nikki Mackay The Tarot is my first love and continuing passion, its history is entrenched and animated with family, ancestral and archetypal patterns way back to its very roots. When it is used to its full capacity as a spiritual and divinatory system the Tarot can be an amazing tool for enlightenment, transformation and [...]

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The Illuminated Tarot – A Review of Carol Herzer’s Handmade Deck

by Valerie Sylvester

Review by Valerie Sylvester The first deck most beginning tarot readers encounter when starting out on their tarot journey is the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, (which I’ll refer to as “RWS” after this initial mention). It’s often the “default deck”, the one that people learn the basic meanings of the cards from. It also serves to illustrate [...]

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The Gaian Tarot – A Review of Joanna Powell Colbert’s Tarot Deck

by Catherine

Like many others, I have been watching the progress of the creation of the wonderful Gaian Tarot from Joanna Powell Colbert. Nine years is a long time to work on a single project, but the cards themselves are so visually stunning they have definitely been worth the effort and definitely worth the wait.

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Sub-Elements In Tarot Cards

by Catherine

A phenomenon you will come across during Tarot card study and Tarot readings are sub-elements and contradictory elements. Mainly associated with the Rider Waite-Smith Tarot deck and decks inspired by it, at its most simplistic explanation, sub-elements are those underlying elements that are secondary to the main one normally associated with a Tarot card. They [...]

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Numerology of the Minor Arcana

by Catherine

Numbered Cards Often called the Minor Arcana, or the Pip Cards of a Tarot deck, they number 36 in total. I will explore the actual cards in another page. In this section, I want to show you how the number sequencing is applied across all of the suits.

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Introducing Tarot Cards And Their Meanings

by Catherine
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Open any new Tarot deck and you will find 78 shiny new cards that at first glance seem indistinguishable from each other. Apart from differing artwork, the names upon the cards and perhaps some keywords too, at first look, you could be forgiven for thinking that those 78 cards are just simply 78 cards with [...]

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