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Tarot 101: Card Keywords

One thing many people struggle with when learning to read tarot is keeping track of card meanings. While I don’t recommend learning tarot like flashcards, you certainly can. But don’t think there’s anything wrong will using a guide book or your notes while you read your cards until you start to commit things to memory and develop your intuitive abilities and a relationship with your deck. It’s all part of the process.

Remember! While each card does have keywords associated with it, cards work together in a spread like words in a sentence. It is incredibly difficult to get the full picture if you read each card only with a handful of keywords. Also, keep in mind that this is a short list of keywords for each card. Each keyword has its negatives, and there are many more that apply to each card.

Numerical Keywords:

Ace (1): Beginnings, potential

Twos: Balance, harmony, dichotomy

Threes: Communication, interaction (think “three’s a party”), outside influence

Fours: Rest, Contemplation

Fives: Conflict, Loss

Sixes: Growth, challenges overcome, understanding

Sevens: Fate, confidence, truth

Eights: Work, change, perseverance

Nines: Consequences and rewards

Tens: Endings (end of a cycle)

Pages: Messages, youth, information

Knights: Movement, adventure, experience

Queens: Power, potential, advice (think motherly advice)

Kings: Authority, power, structure

The Suits

Cups: Emotions (love, feelings, relationships), Connections, Water, Intuition

Wands: Spirituality, Personality, Illusions, Impulses, Fire, Energy

Swords: Action, Power, Conflict, Judgement, Air, Thoughts

Pentacles: Material (money, property, etc.), Manifestation, Indulgence, Earth

The Major Arcana

The Fool: Beginnings, naivety, innocence, risks/reckless behavior

The Magician: Manifestation, inspiration, manipulation, talent

The High Priestess: Intuition, divinity, secrets, withdrawal

The Empress: Beauty, motherly nurturing, abundance, dependence

The Emperor: Authority (fatherly), structure, rules, lack of control

The Hierophant: Wisdom, tradition, culture, religion, freedom

The Lovers: Love, balance, relationships, choices

The Chariot: Control, determination, action, discipline

Strength: Strength, influence, untethered emotions

The Hermit: Isolation, guidance, introspection

The Wheel of Fortune: Cycles, fate/destiny, luck, change

Justice: Justice, law, cause and effect, accountability

The Hanged Man: Martyrdom, surrender, change of perspective, delay

Death: Change, death, endings, transitions

Temperance: Balance, patience, healing, alignment

The Devil: Obsession, shadows, addiction, restrictions/limitations

The Tower: Chaos, dramatic change, awakenings, transformation, fear

The Star: Hope, spirituality, despair, disconnects

The Moon: Illusions, dreams, anxiety, intuition, emotions

The Sun: Positivity, warmth, success, optimism, lively spirit

Judgment: Judgement, rebirth, doubt, criticisms

The World: Completed cycles, accomplishments, movement (travel)

More Tarot 101: Welcome to Tarot / The Story of the Major Arcana / Card Keywords / Choosing a Deck /

lushywitch

How to : Tarot for Beginners

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Below the cut is a quick beginners guide on how to start divining with tarot cards. It’s divided into the following sections:

Getting Started (Finding a deck and establishing your energy)

Minor Arcana (How to read)

Major Arcana (How to read)

I also have a more in-depth beginner’s guide to tarot, including sections on spreads, doing readings for other people, cleansing your deck and selling readings online, etc. which will be released in my book sometime this winter.

Keep reading

somardani

feministism

gallusrostromegalus

I had class at the gardens today and while I was eating lunch by the pond, watching the family of ducks that comes into the picnic area to beg for food. Today, the mother mallard had her offspring in tow. The sight was very adorable and resulted in much salad and fries being thrown thier way. I was only sort of paying attention to thier movments when the following conversation took place at the next table over:

Toddler, just learning how to talk: *excited gasp* A FUCK!

Mother: JENNA NO!

Jenna, bouncing up and down with glee: BABYS! BABY FUCKS! BABY FUCKS!

Mother, hissing whisper of desperation: J e n n a p l e a s e !

Jenna, ecstatic:FEEDA FUCKS! FEEDA FUCKS!

Jenna, turning to me and gesturing: BABY FUCKS!!

Me: Yeah! Did you know a baby Duck is called a Duckling?

Jenna: !!!!!

Jenna: MOMMY! FUCKLEYS!

Mother: I’m so sorry.

Me: Are you kidding? This is the highlight of my week.

Jenna, chanting as shes loadedint the stroller and wheeled away: BA-BY FUCK-LEY! BA-BY FUCK-LEY! BA-BY FUCK-LEY!

The ducks continued their search for fries, uncaring.

snowstories

Edward Elric is such a good character because he’s just chaos incarnate. There’s nothing about this child that isn’t chaotic to the extreme. He dresses in leather pants, platform boots, and a bright red coat. He became a state alchemist at 12 after attacking the president. He tried to resurrect the dead when he was 11. He became an atheist after literally meeting god. He brings a massive statue of a false god to life to punch a false prophet in the face in chapter 2. When he got impaled by a pole he used part of his own lifeforce to seal the wound. When he transmutates something he adds a gothic/dramatic details to it. His dad is an immortal walking talking philosopher’s stone and the last survivor of a dead nation. He fistfought god and won. He overthrew a government at 16. He outsmarted god by giving up his alchemy and using that to commit what was essentially the first successful human transmutation. This kid doesn’t just thrive on drama, he is drama.

hydro-homies

I answer for no one.

madz-the-3rd

onlinecounsellingcollege

“No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all.”

— Unknown

not-a-space-alien

I wish Neil Gaiman hadn't given Crowley black wings in the tv series. Now I'm seeing an explosion of "angels have white wings and they turn black when they fall" headcanons in art and fic. I do not like that headcanon very much. I do not like the association of light colors with moral purity and dark colors with corruption. Maybe if you think about it for a minute you can figure out why using color as a short-hand for morality is an iffy thing to do.

Besides...... it's just BORING. Give me angels with a rainbow of wing colors, please.

karazrel

marvel execs are calling in the assassins as we speak

realgirlsgaming

priceofliberty

Report: 95% Of Grandfathers Got Job By Walking Right Up And Just Asking

lesb0

Fun story my history teacher told us: his grandfather during the industrial revolution walked past a flyer which said “looking for smart strong boys” so he went into the factory, said “i’m strong and smart”, and he had that job from age 13 to 78

kaiitea

and this is why they expect the younger generation to simply “get a job” ahh it’s so much clearer now

entwinedmoon

#basically everyone aged Baby Boomer and up #still can’t wrap their heads around the fact that there’s no such thing as ‘just walking in’ anymore #like the majority of jobs you’d actually want require online applications and you’re lucky to get a rejection email (via halffizzbin)

Here’s another fun story: My boss decided to slap my work phone number on all the ads we post looking for newspaper carriers. So I receive a bunch of calls from people looking for jobs. Working only part time, I’m not usually there when they call, so they have to leave a message and I take their info to pass on to my boss. Sometimes it can be weeks before my boss calls any of these applicants back, if at all. How the callers respond to not getting a callback varies. Most don’t do anything, but some call again. If the person sounds young, they may leave another message clarifying their qualifications and reaffirming their interest. If the person is old, and I can always hear it in their voice, they respond by getting mad, threatening to cancel their newspaper subscription, and occasionally swearing. The older generation is used to getting a callback, and an immediate one, so they throw a tantrum when they don’t get what they want.

And everyone calls Millennials entitled.

truckerjbthemd

Mind. Blown.

spaghettisaurusrex

This is great info, but the way the headline is phrased made it sound like they got the job of being a grandfather by walking right up and just asking

mayalaen

Older generations also started out in the shittiest of shit positions, but quickly moved up if they proved themselves and worked HARD.

So when a boomer or older sees a “whiny millennial crying about how they want $15/hour for flipping burgers” it’s because they think it’s still that easy to get recognized for doing a great job, so it must be the millennial’s fault for not trying hard enough to get noticed and move up the ladder.

Older generations don’t realize employers now don’t give a shit about the people working for them, don’t recognize when someone is a valued employee, don’t move them up in the company, and don’t increase pay based on work performance.

Employers now are too focused on keeping the hours per employee down so they don’t have to give them insurance and forcing them to work as hard as possible while also paying them next to nothing.

This is NOT how it used to be, and once a boomer or older really realizes this, they get super pissed at what has happened to the workplace these days. I’ve seen it happen with my parents and grandparents. My uncle didn’t realize it until he got a job at Walmart that lasted for two months because he couldn’t take it anymore and didn’t move up the ladder.

My grandfather was a really good businessman back in the day, and when I laid it all out for him, he was livid and said “that’s NOT how you get good employees. You get good employees by treating them like a human being, paying them what they’re worth, and pushing them to do better by following through on promises you’ve made to reward them for that good behavior and showing that you’re worthy of their respect and hard work by working hard yourself.”

The more the media and capitalism corrupts everyone, the more we take sides, the less we empathize with each other. It’s not as much a baby boomer problem as it is a corruption problem and lies being shoved down everyone’s throats, separating everyone to the point where they hate each other.