Tarot Card Reading Tips

 Wands:

-Fire Signs – primal energy, creativity, intuition, ambition, strength, spirituality, desires, masculine, actions, drive, aggression

 

Cups:

Nurturing, illogical, fluidity, empathetic, aesthetics, beauty, domesticity, dreams, sensitivity

 

Swords:

-Air Signs – mind, thoughts, intellect, logic, reasoning, male, planning, academia, law, learning, arguments, communication, decisions, facts, figures

 

Pentacles:

-Earth Signs – material, physical, sensual, money, common sense, body, passive, female, fertile, materialistic, health, domesticity, luxury, traditional, regular, practical, business deals, working hard to get the job done

 

Court cards (such as king, queen, knight and page) represent developed personalities and facets of oneself:

The Queen: impulsive, an initiator, an investigator (water type)

The King:  thorough, intensive, consolidating (fire type)

The Knight: magnifying, expanding, a drawer of consequences (air type)

The Page: makes something tangible out of or with the element in question (earth type)

Pay attention to numbers! Numerology can play a big role in your interpretations of the cards, especially in the Minor Arcana

 

Ones (Aces): Something new with vast potential is indicated when you have many aces in your readings. They are pure energy without form - and it depends on you to shape it and bring the opportunities that they represent into fruition. Because they are raw, they are also unstable, + can very quickly overwhelm if not taking care.

 

Twos: Coming together in pairs is the theme of the twos, and all the complexities that this union represents. We leave the individuality of the ones, and the twos are a taste of union.

 

Threes: Group dynamics rule the threes in the tarot, and they depict different outcomes that can occur when a group comes together - whether they are groups of individuals, or groups of ideas. Because it is also symbolically thought of as completion (the first polygon + the holy trinity, etc) it also indicates an initial completion of a first phase of some sort.

 

Fours: The fours usually indicate that some foundation has been created and is ready to grow and evolve. To grow and evolve is the key here, because though the foundation is created, there is some disappointment indicated sometimes because things may not have progressed entirely + as hoped for - thus, the fours are also the universe’s way of pushing us to grow and move forward.

 

Fives: Change, fluctuations and conflict are represented by the fives. After the fours, the fives are amplifications of that same energy. When that energy explodes, the fives ask us to look within ourselves for a deeper reason of why to progress. To move forward and beyond these instabilities, we must push forward.

 

Sixes: While the fives represent conflict, the sixes represent the movement away from that conflict into a solution, whether they are internal or external, whether that means reconciliation or letting go. They are the cards of overcoming suffering, light after the dark.

 

Sevens: When seeing many sevens in a reading it usually indicates that it is a time to step back and introspect. The sevens ask us to assess and reevaluate whether the path that you are taking is what is best for you. Sometimes this is a lonely pursuit, but this period is needed to go forward with your authentic desires.

 

8s: A completion of a second phase is indicated with the eights, and usually corresponds to some sort of achievement, whether in the worldly sense, or in an emotional sense. Growth either way is indicated here, and sometimes it can take place in a form where we least expected it.

 

Nines: Nearing completion is indicated by the nines, and this can take the form of entering a plateau of some sort. What looks like the finish line, may be just a transitory stage. While the feeling of completion is here, it is usually just a pause before the final part of the cycle comes.

 

And finally 10s: In the tens, we see the actual completion of the cycle, that something has come to a full circle - it indicates that from this point forward, we can move towards a new beginning.