The Aces: Beginning
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The images on the Aces generally show the potential for the new beginnings. They show something fresh and starting. A new seed has just planted. Aces also can represent an idea of the beginning.
Positive meaning of aces is: It is a great time to plant the seeds for something new. The seed will grow and greatly benefit you both spiritually and materially.
Negative meaning is: You are jumping the gun. Complete old business before rushing into new projects.
Major Arcana
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Each Major Arcana represents a unique and individual concept. Each card shows opportunities to growth and raise awareness of the questionnaire. Even each card can be interpreted as stand alone, I personally connect all major arcana in a story when I read cards for somebody. When we read cards, images seem to awake and it can awake your intuition at the time of reading.
Tarot Mythological Symbols
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The mythology tells a story what may explain why things are the way they are: why it is rains, why the sun goes at night, why we feel angry. The stories have the power to make us feel good and understand better events of our lives. Mythology helps us feel that there is a reason for what happens and shows us where we fit in the picture.
Once we learn to explore the stories, we find them priceless in helping us discover our lives and bring the situations to the next level.
Choosing A Tarot Deck
Posted by lisa | Filed under Tarot deck, symbolism
The key to the Tarot is in the symbols used on the cards. They are the catalysts for awakening your intuition. It is very important that you are confortable with the images on the cards you choose.
Throughout the last five centuries, the Tarot has been used mainly by the royal classes, occult sects, educated philosophers and and witches or gypsies. The insights and information discovered by gypsies and witches was transmitted out by word of mouth and mostly hidden from public. Interesting enough, the privileged class was developing and publishing most information we have today on Tarot. The esoteric philosophers, Emperors, Kings and Popes saw the Tarot as a tool to be used by the initiated, the privileged, the people who had time to study and understand an intricate maze of symbolism.
General public got access to the Tarot only in 20th century.
Human Symbols
Tarot decks generally treat children as creative, energetic creatures who are ready to begin their life with faith and enthusiasm. Young people could be a bit crazy and willing to take a risk to adventure. Middle-aged people are depicted as leaders of society.
Some people tend to feel that they have power when they control others. This control involves some people setting and enforcing the limits and conditions of other people growth and development.
There is a better way of looking at power and control. We can gain control over our lives without controlling the lives of others; others can control their lives without melting into our lives. We each have personal power to be ourselves, individually and in groups. We can take charge of your lives, make choices based on our needs, and become responsible to and for ourselves. We should not allow to make other people decisions for us, to be responsible for us, or to take charge.
As you examine Tarot deck, be aware of the symbols in them because these symbols represent powerful concepts. Choose the Tarot deck that mostly reflects your values. Choose a deck containing symbolism that holds meaning for you. Choose a deck that is full of symbolism that intrigue you.
You also choose a deck that looks good to you. look for a deck that is attractive in its design. Find one that appeals to your sense of taste and esthetics. (Though, it did not work for me because I sometimes buy cards for the collection, not the reading, and when I try to use cards it is hard to read because symbols does not make sense. I would not recommend for readings the following decks: Witchy tarot and 1001 night tarot. The first deck just does not make sense and the 1001 nights has beautiful images but pictures are too small and the symbolism is not all clear.)
You can choose a deck that intuitively "feels" right to you. Look at several decks; then see which one you keep coming back to you.
Choose a deck that is a size and shape comfortable to handle.
It is better to use more than one deck. Different deck will give you a bit different mood while reading. It is better to use your own value system. your philosophy, your taste and your intuition. You will have deck that fits you.
Alchemist
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0 The Fool (Rider-Waite)- 78. The Alchemist (The Great ETTEILLA)
This card is correctly named “The Madman”. It inevitable heralds madness or an aberration. It is up to consultant to be on his guard.
Upright: Your attitude is stupid.
Demented, Eccentricity [Extravagance], Insanity, Aberrations, Intoxication, Delirium, Frenzy, Defective, Rage, Carried Away.— Enthusiasm.—Blindness, Ignorance.—Crazy, Insane, Irrational, Innocent, Without Affectation, Simpleton.
Reversed: You are about to do something very foolish.
Imbecility, Ineptitude, Carelessness, Stupidity, Imprudence, Negligence, Absence, Distraction.—Apathy, Fainting Fit, Exhaustion, Sleep, Nothingness, Nullity, Empty, Nothing.—Vain. Hesitation. Trouble arising.
Upright: Near 57 (7 of swords) You still have time to stop your stupid behavior. Near 41 (9 of cups) Your stupidity cannot be recited.
Reversed: With 27 (Nine of sticks) The remedy will be worse than the foolish act itself.
Inner impulse - curiosity, interest in experiments, the desire for change
Light - idealism, imagination, sensitivity
Shadow - the destruction, confusion purposes, wool-gathering, irresponsibility.
Quality - freedom from prejudice, a surprising discovery.
General Meaning
The Alchemist (the Fool) symbolizes undeveloped conditions, the original integrity or he beginning of something new. He says that you are entering into an entirely new period of life with wonder, without expectations, having no idea what you are going to discover. You will have a chance to start from the scratch. These opportunities you can apply in all aspects of life. The Alchemist reflects inner desire to know the unknown. He is following the call of the soul, bringing a new life cycle of the unknown as the starting point of a new path, and simultaneously completing the previous cycle. Carefree clown has a confidence of a child, who still remembers the cosmic laws, but does not yet have knowledge of the rational model to explain the new world.
Profession, Career and Business
You will find a completely new experience. You are open to changes, leading to uncertainty. The events of this period can have a destructive power, as well as creative. The Alchemist always points to an experience teaches you. Despite the fact that events may develop randomly, they do not represent any danger for you. Security and success - it's just a tempting promise that can not give true happiness and pleasure.
Love and Relations
Yes, you are in love. The Alchemist points to the spontaneous flow of feelings and an open heart. The Alchemist can represent irresponsibility, carelessness, and the desire to ignore reality, while at the same time indicates the vitality, excellent communication and ease in communication between loved one. Love in all its diversity. This could mean a new love, or rebirth of an old relations.
Citations:
An order is the satisfaction of reason, and chaos is a delight of imagination.
The starting point - that's what people are lacking. Not that its daily matters so hard to find. The only thing that is messy - it's an illusion that it must be sought.
In older history of divination, the card had more negative meaning.
White & Roses. Symbolism.
Posted by lisa | Filed under Roses, symbolism
The rose also is a symbol that has a marvelous history. And like the cross, it can have contradictory meanings. It is a message of innocence; and a symbol of passion and heavenly perfection; purity and in utero; death and life. The rose is the flower of the Venus but also the blood of Adonis and Christ. The rose garden symbolizes Paradise -- the place of the mysterious alliance.
The rose also is a sign of silence and secrecy. In the Mysteries roses were sacred to Isis. It is also the flower of her son Harpocrates or younger Horus, the god of silence.
Numerological, the rose represents the number 5 -- because the wild rose has 5 petals which is the emblem of Health and Safety; ...it depicts Spirit and the four elements." The Pythagorean school used the pentagram as the symbol of their teaching.
In an ideal sensation the rose symbolizes the expanding appreciation of being through the evolving of the senses.
It was such a day that I had a gift of two roses, the red and white. The white represents friendship for me, and the red, even people could consider love, I would say it represents passion and truth. Passion toward goals on one's life. It was a first time, I got an impression that you really can compare the rose with the cross. For some reason, the white rose reminded me of a cross, and in Rosicrucian symbolism they have the red rose and the white cross. So the white rose could you remind of a cross sometimes. maybe I just got lucky to get this to remind me about symbol.
It was an interesting experience.
Universal Waite Tarot
Posted by lisa | Filed under Universal Waite Tarot, tarot deck review
The Universal Waite Tarot is quite a pretty version of the Rider-Waite, with more appealing, softer artwork.
I also have this deck in my collection.
You
can find more similar versions of Pamela Colman-Smith's Rider-Waite
tarot, but this information will help you in selection of the deck(s)
that you will like to have.
Universal Tarot Grand Trumps
Posted by lisa | Filed under Rider-Waite, Universal Tarot Grand Trumps, tarot card review
The Universal Tarot Grand
Trumps are the third of Lo Scarabeo's Grand Trumps series, and has the
22 large-sized Rider-Waite style illustrations of the Universal Tarot
major arcana.
Universal Tarot
Posted by lisa | Filed under Pamela Colman-Smith's Rider-Waite, Universal Tarot, tarot card review
Pamela Colman-Smith's Rider-Waite images have been slightly changed and redrawn in a more Italian, dynamic style. 
Tarot Of The New Vision
Posted by lisa | Filed under Raul and Gianluca Cestaro, Rider-Waite, Tarot of the New Vision
The Tarot of the New Vision is
created by Raul and Gianluca Cestaro and based on the Rider-Waite, but
with a fascinating change of perspective which reveals new scenes,
people and hidden meanings.
This is a very interesting deck that opens your imagination for hidden movements and it seems that cards are alive.
Robin Wood Tarot
Posted by lisa | Filed under Rider-Waite, Robin Wood Tarot, tarot deck review
With its Rider-Waite foundation, Robin
Wood's Tarot deck contains Pagan symbolism. The illustrations in this
popular deck are attractive, and brightly.
Rider-Waite Tarot
Posted by lisa | Filed under Rider Tarot, Rider-Waite Tarot, Waite Tarot, Waite-Smith Tarot, tarot deck review
Rider-Waite Tarot, Rider Tarot, Waite Tarot, Waite-Smith Tarot
The
Rider-Waite Tarot is a classic Tarot deck, perhaps the most well-known
in the Western world. It is often called the first modern Tarot deck,
as the cards drawn by Pamela Colman-Smith and commissioned by Waite
were the first to use detailed pictures on the minor arcana cards.
Rider-Waite Tarot (University Books)
This version of the
Tarot was published by 1959. Its colors are more vivid than later
editions and the backs have a different background.
Radical Wirth Tarot
Posted by lisa | Filed under Radical Wirth Tarot, tarot deck review
Radical Wirth Tarot
The tarot images used in the Oswald
Wirth Tarot have been re-painted. The originals were flat
illustrations with brown backgrounds, but these are richly decorated
and multi-hued pictures.
Radiant Rider-Waite Tarot
Posted by lisa | Filed under Radiant Rider-Waite Tarot, tarot deck review
In the Radiant Rider-Waite
Tarot, Poshkus has re-illustrated and updated Pamela Colman-Smith's
images. Compared to the original, these cards are much more luminously
colored and three-dimensional. 
I have this deck in my collection and find it excellent for reading and divination.
The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack
Posted by lisa | Filed under The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack, tarot deck review
The Original
Rider-Waite Tarot differs from the Rider-Waite Tarot, as it has less
saturated colors and a brownish hue, titles as drawn by Pamela
Colman-Smith, and a more decorative back pattern.
I
personally found this deck not good quality. What was bothering me is
that the quality of painting was really bad, and colors were really
dull. Before you buy this deck, try to see if there are open sample
decks.
Ended up, that I gave this deck away to my friend who lives overseas, so she can use them.
