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TAROT CHEAT SHEET #1

MAJOR ARCANA

0. THE FOOL | blank slate, beginning, innocence ®* | reckless, negligence, unaware of consequences 1. THE MAGICIAN | willpower, manifestation of desires ® | trickery, illusions, lies, out of touch w/ truth 2. THE HIGH PRIESTESS | intuition, inner voice ® | repressed/unheard inner voice 3. THE EMPRESS | mother figure, nurture, earth/nature ® | smothering, dependence, needing to let go 4. THE EMPEROR | authority, structure, control, father figure ® | tyranny, too much control 5. THE HIEROPHANT | tradition, conformity, morality ® | rebellion, subversiveness, divergence 6. THE LOVERS | union, duality, choice, harmony ® | disharmony, loss of balance 7. THE CHARIOT | self-control & willpower leading to victory ® | loss of control, lack of direction 8. STRENGTH | bravery, inner understanding that radiates power ® | self-doubt, insecurity, weakness 9. THE HERMIT | solitude, contemplation, seeking inner truth ® | loneliness, isolation, disconnect w/ fellow humans 10. WHEEL OF FORTUNE | change, cycles, inevitability ® | bad luck, helplessness, series of bad events 11. JUSTICE | cause & effect, karmic retribution ® | unpunished misbehavior, unfair, turning a blind eye 12. THE HANGED MAN | willing sacrifice, release of control ® | stalling, needless sacrifice, waiting to no avail 13. DEATH | end, cyclical closure, metamorphosis ® | fear of change, stagnation, limbo, holding on 14. TEMPERANCE | moderation, balance, middle path ® | extremes, excess, lack of balance 15. THE DEVIL | materialism, destructive patterns, excess ® | freedom, release, restoring control 16. THE TOWER | sudden disaster, upheaval, collapse ® | delaying inevitable disaster, avoiding suffering that could lead to growth 17. THE STAR | hope, faith, guidance ® | faithlessness, lack of guidance, negative thoughts 18. THE MOON | unconscious, intuition, illusions, dreams ® | confusion, misinterpretation 19. THE SUN | success, clarity, positivity, conscious ® | negativity, depression, sadness, pessimism 20. JUDGEMENT | reckoning, honest evaluation of oneself ® | lack of self-awareness, self-loathing 21. THE WORLD | completion, wholeness, fulfillment ® | incompletion, no closure, nearing end of journey but something is missing

*® = reverse card meaning*® = reverse card meaning

Tarot Cheat Sheet #1 - Major Arcana

Tarot Cheat Sheet #2 - Wands

Tarot Cheat Sheet #3 - Cups

Tarot Cheat Sheet #4 - Swords

Tarot Cheat Sheet #5 - Pentacles

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How to : Tarot for Beginners

Requested post by Anonymous

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

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make your perfect magick coffee

the coffee bean has a surprisingly wide array of magickal properties, including:

❤  breaking curses, bad habits, and negative influences

❤  cultivating clarity of mind, focus, and motivation

❤  divination (you can read coffee grounds like tea leaves)

❤  protection from nightmares and negative thoughts

❤  as an offering for ancestors and deities

❤  emotional grounding

magickal flavors for your coffee

♥  cinnamon: spirituality, success, healing

♥  cardamom: energy, love and lust

♥  vanilla: love, lust, passion

♥  chocolate: prosperity, self-love, friendship

♥  hazelnut: creativity and inspiration

♥  almond: good luck, beauty, wealth

♥  caramel: balance, strength

♥  honey: replenishing magickal energy

♥  pumpkin: money drawing, connection to the earth

♥  peppermint: cleansing and purification

the magick of milks and creamers

♥  cow milk: nurturing, self-care (note: cow milk only retains its full-power magickal effects when the milk is ethically sourced)

♥  almond milk: good luck, beauty, wealth

♥  soy milk: protection, psychic awareness, spirituality

♥  hemp milk: happiness, positivity, peace

♥  oat milk: grounding, focus

♥  cashew milk: strong money drawing

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Options

It’s been told to weigh the good and the bad... but I don’t know what’s good anymore.

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soulmate (n.)

A person with whom you have an immediate connection the moment you meet – a connection so strong that you are drawn to them in a way you have never experienced before. As this connection develops over time, you experience a love so deep, strong and complex, that you begin to doubt that you have ever truly loved anyone prior. Your soulmate understands and connects with you in every way and on every level, which brings a sense of peace, calmness and happiness when you are around them. And when you are not around them, you are all that much more aware of the harshness of life, and how bonding with another person in this way is the most significant and satisfying thing you will experience in your lifetime. You are also all that much aware of the beauty in life, because you have been given a great gift and will always be thankful.

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Tips for Getting more out of Life

1. Stop resisting change and see it as a constant in life.

2. Learn to enjoy, and value, solitude.

3. Never forget that friendship is a gift, not a possession.

4. Things are rarely as bad as they seem at first.

5. Do your most important tasks first thing in the morning.

6. Smiling seems to help with most things!

7. Schedule margin into your life – as something unexpected will often change your plans.

8. QTIP: quit taking it personally.

9. Define what’s necessary; say no to the rest.

10. Take a deep breath and wait before responding. Don’t react, and say something you’ll regret.

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I’ve never felt anything more

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What to remember when dating each Zodiac sign!

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This is true with moons as well.

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Would I truly be missed tho? Or would you feel guilt.

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Virgo Rising

Your Ascendant (or Rising Sign) reveals the ways in which you present yourself to others, as well as the ways in which you immediately respond to the world around you. As such, it describes the ways in which we project ourselves out into the environment as well as the kinds of experiences we need to have in order to make life meaningful.

The combination of Sun, Moon and Ascendant describe what you want (Sun), what you need (Moon), and the style in which you will go about getting it (Ascendant).

Planetary ruler: Mercury

With Virgo rising, you are likely to approach the world via mental analysis, and the need for organization. You are likely to have experiences which tend toward critical discernment, self-criticism, and the need to find practical outlets for your skills, talents and abilities. Typically humble and at times self-effacing, you can be more concerned with being useful than being recognized. There is a need to be productive – to be of service somehow – and your chosen career field will often be the arena in which you come to experience these lessons.

You are likely to be practical, capable and dexterous, and can easily draw upon these skills. You may be very good with facts, figures and details. You may also be quite self-critical because of early childhood experiences, and need to learn to identify and appreciate your talents.

You are usually willing to assist and be of service to others, being hardworking, conscientious and studious. Nonetheless, you are likely to be a bit on hard on yourself, with a tendency to worry. If you do not perform your tasks to your own standards of perfection you can be very self-critical, and the recriminations may go on for days. Your tendency to worry may undermine your nervous system, and changes, especially at work can take a heavy toll. You like to know your place, and know that a systematic plan is in place. Cleanliness and order are often very important, as is the need to be systematic. The use of the mind, as well as the practical expression of mental energy, is most important.

You are likely to be very practical and able, yet on the way to finding, or sorting, out who you are, you may need to overcome a crippling lack of self-confidence. Virgo rising is often associated with a tendency to self-censor and self-criticize that can be debilitating. You may inwardly question and criticize every move that you make, leading to chronic levels of anxiety, and even chronic illness if the effects on the nervous system are not eased.

Those born with Virgo rising often have delicate constitutions, and care must be taken of the physical body. Your health, digestion and everyday processes are easily affected by negative thoughts and emotions. You may also tend to retreat from conflict and debate, for you may distrust your mental processes. This amplifies and deepens your tendency to self-doubt, and you would do well to learn more abut how penetrating you can be by daring to exercise your fine mental and critical faculties, and testing your insights out with other people. Learning to praise, rather than criticize, your own attributes is a great step forward, and developing a sense of purpose through being of assistance to others removes any residual feelings of being ‘imperfect’.

You may have a tendency to be fussy, and inclined to worry, but you are able to give much love and security if you are able to create a secure and stable environment in your life where your natural talents have an outlet. In this way, your sense of discernment, practicality and willingness to serve can rise to the fore, adding purpose and fulfillment to your life. Virgo is associated with the proper assimilation of experience. You do this through trial and analysis, through discernment and discrimination. This is very similar to what occurs with the metabolic processes within the body, in that what is not useful or necessary must be discerned, filtered and eliminated from the psyche. Use the processes of metabolism and digestion as metaphors for your approach to life, and learn to see any imbalances within your own system as symptomatic of an imbalance in how you are assimilating your life experiences.

You may be very particular about food, but this is because of your natural sensitivity to these processes. Learn to listen to your body and take care of your health, but watch out for tendencies to worry about the health as a substitute for something better to do! Taking care of your health is a natural outlet, and you will benefit greatly by incorporating a healthy diet and natural therapies that assist well-being into your everyday experiences. Regular practices such as yoga and meditation that synthesize mind and body are especially beneficial for you.

There may be tendencies toward rigidity, and a need to control outcomes, based on an innate fear of chaos or lack of order. You can learn to relax this side of your personality through the input of other people, who teach the lessons of flow, and trusting in the processes of life itself.

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Cancer Rising

Your Ascendant (or Rising Sign) reveals the ways in which you present yourself to others, as well as the ways in which you immediately respond to the world around you. As such, it describes the ways in which we project ourselves out into the environment as well as the kinds of experiences we need to have in order to make life meaningful.

The combination of Sun, Moon and Ascendant describe what you want (Sun), what you need (Moon), and the style in which you will go about getting it (Ascendant).

Planetary Ruler: The Moon

With Cancer rising, self-realization comes through a sophisticated attunement to the feeling nature. You need to make sense of life through your senses and emotions. You will be gifted with strong intuitions, and even a psychic sensibility. You are likely to be extremely sensitive to the world around you and may need to recognize, and own, emotional realities. This means acknowledging your sensitivity, accepting your strong desire to nurture and support others, and recognizing how this sensitivity may mean that you tend to take on too much from the environment in which you find yourself, or become overly responsible for what others are feeling.

Because of your innate sensitivity, you may develop and display to others a hard outer shell that belies your true self in order to protect this vulnerability. As this is a Cardinal sign, you need to direct your sensitivity, but it must be done in a way that is not overwhelming. Learning how to offer nurturing support when it is needed is a reality for you. Some people with Cancer rising may be unaware of the emotional depths teeming here, and will attract experiences which underscore the need to acknowledge the feelings. In this case, there will be a tendency to attract weak, needy, helpless or manipulative people – people in extremes of emotional crisis – in order to live out this side of the personality. You might find yourself wondering why all of your friends seem to have problems. At the end of the day, this may have something to do with your need to feel needed?

Qualities of nurturing and caring should be developed for growth and self-awareness. Yet knowing when to draw the line in terms of responsibility for others needs is paramount. If this is not achieved, then there may be a tendency to become lost in others weaknesses, or alternately, need others to ‘mother’ you. Healthy relationships need to be formed without guilt or co-dependency. Lessons in partnership usually involve learning to control and discipline the emotional responses, so that they are appropriate to the situation at hand. Cancer rising folk usually seek strength and stability in the partners that they choose, however, strength, stability and security must be incorporated first into the self before these can be found in another.

You may be very adaptable to change in your external circumstances, but need a safe and secure home base that you can retire to. The home is very important to Cancer rising individuals, and acts like the physical outer shell. You are likely to prefer clean and comfortable surroundings, and to surround yourself with dignified or refined people who you can lavish your nurturing attentions on. You may be very sensitive to sound and smell, and so, prefer to be in environments that suit your highly sensitive nature.

Often very close to family and friends, you are probably domesticated, with good cooking skills, and very capable on the work front. You require a very peaceful and serene home environment, and may have a tendency to switch off and retreat here when hurt, depressed, uncertain or confused. This is as it should be, but care must be taken that your preference for the security of the home environment doesn’t preclude you from dealing with others.

Cancer rising is often business minded, and you are able to run your own business owing to your sense of how to cater to the tastes of the public, and a practical, cautious yet determined attitude to your affairs. There is often great tenacity here, and you are likely to accomplish what you set out to do, despite constant flux and changes. With persistence and through careful strategic planning, you can easily supply what others need.

There is also often a tendency to withdraw from direct confrontation, for this sign tends to approach problems sideways. You may be inclined to stinginess, owing to an overly cautious attitude to money, which comes down to fears about having the ability to control one’s external circumstances, and keep life comfortable and contained.

A love of travel means that it is important to have the means to be able to get up and go, and you may enjoy frequent changes and environments to allow you to soak up the most of what life has to offer.

The famed Cancerian tendency to live in the past may mean that you fail to make the most of your present circumstances. There may be a tendency to hold on to people and things that hold emotional significance, and sometimes this will go on well past the ‘use-by-date’. This may develop into a tendency to live in the past. Then, the emotional attachments to things or people that have outgrown their usefulness for you and your life will hold you back.

There is a strong tendency to cling to feelings, both positive and negative, for feelings of any kind give you a sense of place. With very strong emotional memory banks, you can store experiences at a cellular level. Relieving past hurts and impressions can mean that you seem to continually re-experience the past. Instead, you might focus on reorienting your finely tuned intuition to respond to the needs of the present, and the creation of the future.

Often, Cancer rising babies are born into a happy and secure family environment and are quick to bond with mother. Family is a very important part of the life experience and you will happily take on the role of the responsible care-giver for others. Sometimes, the child becomes too deeply invested in the emotional state of the mother, and this can be detrimental if the close emotional ties are not transformed at a later stage. Letting go of  emotional ties in order to develop independence and strength is crucial. Cancer rising individuals are usually dignified and responsible as children. They are often quiet and cautious, watching what is happening all around, and very aware of the emotional undercurrents and expectations of others. Thus there can be a tendency to unconsciously take on the parents’ wishes and expectations, for these children want to be obedient and conform to the family structure. Yet owing to the Cardinal qualities of this sign, you are likely to gently but firmly find your own path later on in life.

For greatest success and effectiveness, you need to understand how the ebb and flow of your own inner cycles, using your own sense of rhythm and timing will lead you to where you want to go. The accuracy of your usually uncanny and precise instincts is a great asset, and your intuitive hunches will almost always be spot on. Trust your feelings and in time they will become your sharpest tool.