The Most Powerful Tarot Cards
every reader will tell you something different, and spreads/context (!) can shift things around, but for the sake of knowing when there’s a strong impulse in your reading — what tarot cards pack a punch?
being long-term trends, they always compel. out of the 22, these 8 can be a rather big deal in your spread:
THE MAGICIAN — an urgent message to start now.
DEATH — a metamorphosis that stops before no one.
THE TOWER — tarot’s great shake-up.
THE EMPEROR — an authority steps in.
STRENGTH — a brave, bold act.
JUDGMENT — the big reveal.
JUSTICE — dreaded or fair consequences.
THE CHARIOT — vast success.
pages, knights and queens do have questions where they are the most powerful answers. however, the kings are last in the court with good reason. they rank rather straightforwardly.
KING OF WANDS — power itself.
KING OF SWORDS — toughest master strategian.
KING OF COINS — money/survival is power.
KING OF CUPS — family and great compassion.
watch for these folks; they carry a lot of intensity.
ACE OF WANDS — the firestarter of the tarot.
ACE OF SWORDS — breakthrough!
FOUR OF CUPS — a crippling loss.
FIVE OF WANDS — a brawl gone right.
FIVE OF SWORDS — a brawl gone wrong.
SIX OF WANDS — coming out on top.
EIGHT OF SWORDS — trapped and lost.
TEN OF SWORDS — ultimate defeat.
TEN OF COINS — hitting the jackpot.
TEN OF CUPS — every wish fulfilled.
as for the remaining suits, before someone underestimates them — it’d like to quote gwyn mcvay:
“Obviously Gandalf and Saruman are very powerful good and evil wizards, respectively, in The Lord of the Rings, but it’s the Hobbits—small, not magically or physically powerful — who get the actual main quest accomplished.”