major arcana

What numbers are their in major arcana?

0-21

What is the major arcana often called?

The fool's journey (we don't know much when we come into the universe and we gradually get life's experiences one card at a time)

What is the midpoint of the major arcana?

The wheel of fortune

What does major arcana represent?

Major arcana represents major life changes, challenges, and experiences; Ones that have a massive, long-term impact on their life. Relocation, making decisions about career and education, as well as more personal matters such as birth, marriage, divorce and death. Your querent is likely seeking answers to deep questions affecting their spiritual and personal lives.

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all cards and distinguish between story and description

Method of only doing readings with major arcana

Some professionals can complete readings only using the 22 cards of the Major Arcana. This method should be reserved for experienced readers, who need guidance on deeply spiritual matters, are seeking self-awareness, or require a deeper insight into a querent's question from the collective unconscious.

Major Arcana Reversed

If you see that in a spread, it may mean that the querent is not paying attention to the lessons available around them. As a reader, you can help your querent by offering deeper meaning or context about the reversed card.

What is the story of a fool about

How we evolve

The fool definition

The fool is exciting, new beginnings, optimism, spontaneity, fearlessness, joyfulness. It may border thoughtlessness, lack of maturity, responsibility.

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Signifies potential, beginnings, and the void before creation)

The fool symbolism 1

The bright sun represents happiness and positivity. Young man full of energy, carefree, looking forward to the experiences.

The fool symbolism 2

There's a rose in his hand (still represents full of life and positive expectations; fearless)

The fool symbolism 3

He's standing on a cliff

The fool symbolism 4

The background is bright yellow (very positive and exciting)

The fool symbolism 5

He is looking upward and not aware of where he's walking. He needs to be careful before he takes the next step further.

The fool symbolism 6

There is also a puppy excited and trying to communicate something to him after having observed the guard.

The fool symbolism 7

There's a nap sack on his head so all of his worldly belongings he's carrying with him. So there's bound to be some lack of accountability and maybe some impulsiveness. In extreme, lawlessness.

If you were to see the full fool card in the reading you can conclude…

A new beginning towards something fun and exciting. However, the new beginning also means that we might not be aware of the facts so we need to be careful.

When you read the fool card..

(Never read cards in isolation) Read it with the cards in association with what is around those cards. So if it is a single card reading, then this could also meaning that there is a person of this type of nature then we use surrounding cards for guidance. .

The fool: Negative or Positive

This is a very positive card except for needing to be cautious about being immature or blind to the negatives

This is a very positive card except for needing to be cautious about being immature or blind to the negatives.

The fool negative connotation

You need to look before you leap or need to take on your responsibilities more seriously. You need to be more thoughtful, less impulsive.

The Fool: Element and Planet

The element air and the planet of this card is Uranus.

Uranus

Uranus is the rebellious planet of awakening, change, and surprise. It's the planet that makes us react -- it shocks us and pushes us into action through sudden events in our environment, or by revealing radical truths within ourselves. Are you a real risk-taker, or do you seize up when confronted with change?

The fool 2

This being number zero and being the first card of the deck is a very important and a card of much significance because essentially this is where the whole story begins.

What number of the magician?

1 (new beginnings, initiative, and self-empowerment)

What element is the magician?

Air

What planet rules the magician?

Mercury: communication, creativity, and travel

The magician symbolism

We see a man who's wearing a long red robe. There's a table in front of him which holds a cup, a coin, a wand, and a sword (these four are the four suits of the tarot). Also this man has one hand pointing toward the skies in which he holds small magic wand. Thirdly, his other hand is pointing towards the earth around his waist. Something which looks like a serpent eating its own tail, which is a symbol of infinity and a zero. On the head of a loop of infinity. We see the number one written on the top. Some red flowers along with some leaves; and a continuation of the red flowers and also some white lines along with leaves here.

The fool to the magician

As per the story of the major arcana, the full story, the fool in our card, zero travels. The magician hands it over readily. And the magician raises his hand above with his wand towards heaven and points his finger to earth . He calls on his powers and magically the coin of the knapsack unfold upon the table revealing his contents. Now, the fool with all his natively is unsure whether this existed in his knapsack earlier. We don't know. We have no way of knowing whether this has been created by the magician or whether it existed in the knapsack earlier. These four suites have represent all the possibilities that the fool can take on his new journey.

The magician element

Air: The solid pentacle represents work, possessions and body. With these, the fool can create whatever he wants. He can choose any direction or any which way.

What is the only arcana card that refers to the minor arcana with all the four suits?

The magician

Since the magician is the only major arcana that also refers to the minor arcana…

The magician is the card of great possibilities and tools; a card of unending possibilities of new beginnings. Bring down the light from the earth. The ability to translate ideas into action to be able to use practical skills, psychic skills beneficially.

If your doing a single card reading and someone asks you about the result of the job with the magician…

The job would be all theirs. They will have the freedom to explore a lot of possibilities, maybe power, and freedom to take things forward to move in the direction that you want to; with the outcome being in your favor. It is a very good and a very strong start. This is a card if confidence.

The magician reversed

Note: even though we are taking about magician there is also a negative element involved that is of trickery and deception. It means somebody can take the negative route, a person who has the power to create things, but he may use the wrong way also to create it. They may use an illusion. You need to watch the means that you use to reach the ends. You need to be watchful of what means you are taking.

What does the sword represent?

Air: Intelligence and rational thinking

Sorrow, jealousy, break ups, accidents and bad news of any kind can be announced by the Swords.

What does the wand represent?

The fire element: Creativity, action, passion, ambition, and inspiration. It embodies primal energy, the "first" element closest to the divine, and relates to personal identity, driving forces, and the spiritual level of consciousness.

What is the element of the high priestess?

Water

What is the number of the high priestess?

2 (represents duality, partnerships, balance, and harmony)

Story of the high priestess

The fool comes and sees this lady sitting over here. This different to what he had found in the magician. The magician was standing. He was all about the power and speaking out and being open. The magician was in motion and she's absolutely still the magician was out in the daylight; Also, was very open. She's sitting. And the lady is calm and quiet. She has the moon crescent of the moon. She's there by night. There's something very mysterious about this lady. So the fool asks her that the magician has shown me these four things. But I don't know what to do with them because there's so much. Instead of answering and replying to the fool, the high priestess just hands over a scroll to the fool. And the fool sits down here and reads by the light of the moon and says that even though I didn't know any of what is written on the scroll, I'm still scared to decide because I'm afraid of taking any wrong decisions, so the high priestess answers in the form of a question, and she asks him, what do your instincts tell you? And as the fool is about to leave, she also promises that she will meet him again whether he is ready to travel with her.

The high priestess symbolism

But travel the most secret parts of the all high priestess, essentially, is all about secrecy and intuition. If you look at the card, you'll see a black pillar, a white pillar and a drape behind the lady, which has pomegranates (the fruit of fertility on it). And we don't know what the drape is hiding. She wears a cross and she holds a scroll in her hand (a little hidden, has something written on it). The fact that it is partly hidden suggests that some things are in life are revealed, things are secret and have to be understood by ourselves.

What does it mean when the high priestess card appears in a reading?

It represents things like secrecy, without holding secrets, or maybe somebody who knows a lot of secrets.

High priestess definition

• Tarot card reader

• It could represent being intuitive or the need to be intuitive or the need to slow down and listen to your intuition is telling you

• This definitely isn't a card of action, it is a card which suggests being passive, waiting it out, being patient, being calm, trusting your inner voice, using your intuition, or basically wait it out to see the outcome of a situation.

• Also, it could represent someone in maybe the family or in the particular situation who knows a lot of secrets and who's good at probably keeping secrets or somebody who's wise and who's a very good counsel and can give very good advice.

• In conclusion, spiritual feminine principles like knowingness, love and relationships, wisdom, intuition, and serenity. You can even liken the high priestess to the old woman who people used to approach in the older days for whenever advice was needed.

• So when this card appears in our reading, it is a time to suggest the seeker to calm, patient, and listen.

The high priestess reversed

To be silent so that they can hear what the universe is really trying to tell them.

Caution the querent against overthinking the situation, instead suggesting they rely on their intuition and trust their inner voice.

The empress element

Earth

What is the number of the empress?

3 (creativity, growth, expansion, and abundance)

The story of the empress

• When he encounters the card, the situation here of meeting the empress, which is depicted by the card number card with the number written three on the top of it.

• We see a woman sitting in all her glory. In the rougher side, this woman has not been shown to be pregnant (but in a lot of other decks, the empress is frequently shown to be pregnant). She's wearing a gown and interestingly has pomegranates on the gown (we seen this in the high priestess).

Pomegranates signify fertility (the high priestess card and the empress) and womanhood in the major arcana.

• When the fool tells the empress his story to her:

She tells him like a new life, it requires patience. It requires nurturing, love, care, all the attention. And only when you provide all of this to something new only then it comes into complete fruition (this is why the empress is usually pregnant).

The empress symbolism

• Pomegranates signify fertility (the high priestess card and the empress) and womanhood in the major arcana.

• The golden corn symbolizes creation and procreation. There are green trees and then the river flowing.

The empress definition

• The Empress card signifies nurturing and creation. Everything that is needed to make something grow. How we take a thought into a reality by nurturing it over a long period of time. We need water for a sapling or a seed to make a crop.

• The empress is the goddess of abundance. When she appears in a reading, it could mean a pregnancy for a woman.

• That means the woman will be patient, loving, giving, generous, devoted, very motherly.

What is the first card in tarot where we get a glimpse of the power of love?

The Empress

What is the inner world of the woman and the outer?

High priestess and empress

The emperor element

Fire

What is the number of the emperor

4 (stability, structure, and groundedness)

The story of the emperor

• The fool from being completely naïve has learned a few lessons. He has learned how to see his options, how to decide with what to do, which way to go, and then finalize on one option and nurture it and how to grow it. After that, he comes to the next experience in his life.

• He comes and sees the emperor who is seated on a throne. He gets amazed at how people are following the emperor's orders, how he is respected, how much respect he is able to command.

• He asks the king, the emperor how he does it. So, the emperor tells him that it is through strong will, through following and laying out the foundations of law and order by being brave and learning how to control one's own self and one's own desires.

The emperor definition 1

• This card in a reading means achievement, authority, protection for your young ones, children, trustworthiness.

• The emperor is the provider where the emperors was the nurturer. He's the one who disciplines you. He's the one who brings with him willpower reason very frequently

• A very strong male influence (a father, husband, partner or any other male). But a person who usually commands respect and authority (your boss or leader).

• It usually signifies that this person will stand by you and protect you when needed (personally and business).

• It can extend to being in control over your environment, your body, being bold and command.

• Knowledge has been obtained by a lot of effort

The emperor definition 2

• Stern

• Looks confident, like he's ready to rule

• Structure regulation

• This card is the opposite of the empress. The emperor is expressed through guidelines, rules, discipline.

The emperor reversed 1

It could even mean being aggressive

The word of caution is being surrounded by negative influences

Too controlling too the point where he is hated

The emperor 2

• You see a stern commanding figure who seated on a throne; which does not seem very luxurious.

• Make sure you caution the querent to continue behaving in logical and rational ways, as the card warns them to base all their decisions on facts rather than emotion. If the querent can do this, they can expect to see progress in their career or other business matters. * Depending on the other cards in the spread, the * Emperor can indicate future achievement of important career goals.

• This card also often appears to querents who need to be reminded of their strength and power over their lives. Some querents may have questions about career or relationships. Pay close attention to the surrounding cards, as they can help provide the querent with the means to find their internal strength.

The hierophant sign

Taurus (April 21st-May 21st)

The hierophant number

5 (tarot cards with the number five can explain an unbalanced relationship or provide a sense that only one narrow path of behavior will be acceptable)

The hierophant definition 1

• The hierophant suggests third possibilities: he says either you give up everything that you have so that you no longer possesses anything, and you have no fear to lose anything. The other possibility is that you realize that even if you lost everything, there are still a lot of things that you have earned and you will get to keep them. For example, the experiences that you have gained as you have, gradually evolved from your childlike natively towards and creating everything that you have created.

• You get to keep all of those experiences. You even get to keep all of that knowledge. And at the same time, you have also built friends. You have earned a certain amount of friendship and goodwill, and you have had your society and community around you, which has ben created as you gathered the knowledge and experience while creating your business or whatever you had a plan set to create, whether it is in personal life or in professional life.

• And you value that especially if the beliefs and the values and the moral system within the community is shared by all.

This card shouldn't be confused with the high priestess card, the high priestess card on the one hand that refers to esoteric (obscure) things; everything that you cannot see that is secret and very personal. It is a very personal intuition and internal.

• The hierophant belongs to the entire shared community and society. But it represents the societal norms, the rituals, rights, traditions of the community, values, their shared identity, the religious structure (which basically gives them the order and meaning). All of these things make a kind of tranquility in the knowledge that we have our society around us. * This societal presence creates harmony and peace, even in the midst of possible crisis.

The hierophant definition 2

• Hierophant is a card which doesn't favor individuality. It's a card which favors society and community. It's about shared feelings, shared beliefs, shared paths that are taken by the society as a whole.

• When this comes up in your reading, it could represent things about education, belief, systems, conformity, conforming to your society. It's about how you identify to the group that you have come from.

It could represent getting an education, pursuing knowledge, getting information