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Tarot Card Readings
Tarot Cards are used by people from
all walks of life to gain insight and an understanding of what is happening in
their lives. The Tarot Card deck contains 78 cards that are divided into two main
groups. The 22 Major Arcana cards and the 56 Minor Arcana cards. The Major Arcana
cards depict the greater events in our lives, while the Minor or Lesser Arcana
cards reveal the every day aspects of our lives. There are many different Tarot
card decks and each show us the experiences we have had in our past, what's happening
in our present day lives and what could happen at any time in our future.
The origin of the Tarot Cards is thought to have been created in Egypt from "The
Book Of Thoth". Thoth was the Egyptian Mercury and is said to have been one
of the early kings. The Gypsies and the Egyptians were the most likely to have
introduced the Tarot Cards to Europe. It is generally accepted that the Tarot
Cards emerged in the latter half of the 14th century as a card game. In the 15th
century the cards became more popular because of numerous printing techniques,
such as woodcuts, copper engravings and stencils. And by the 16th century, a modified
Tarot Card deck called "The Tarot Of Marseilles" gained common usage
throughout Europe.
You will be amazed at how close Tarot Readings touch the issues pertaining to
the important aspects of your life. In the simplest of terms, Tarot cards are
a means of predicting events or gaining insight into our spiritual and material
worlds. They are used as a method of predicting the future and/or as meditational
aides. The history and origins of the Tarot are not definitively known and are
a source of much speculation. Some decks display a multitude of beautiful artwork
and each deck has 3 basic principles in common:
1. Each deck is illustrated with images that symbolically
depict experiences that we've all had, or could have, at one time or another.
2. Each deck is divided into two main sections: the
22 Major Arcana cards, and the 56 Minor Arcana cards. The Minor Arcana are further
divided into the Court Arcana and numbered cards.
3. Each deck contains four suits within the Minor
Arcana: Wands (also known as Staffs or Batons,) Cups (also known as Bowls,) Swords,
and Pentacles (also known as Coins or Disks.)
Symbolically, the Major Arcana illustrate the greater events
within a lifetime, and the Minor Arcana illustrate smaller, everyday, mundane
events. The images on the cards display a story, both by themselves, and as a
whole. It is this imagery, and the way each person responds uniquely to it, that
makes the Tarot an effective tool of self discovery.
A spread is simply a method of laying out a prescribed number of cards in a specific
formation. Nancy uses the "Celtic Cross" and "Fan" spreads.
She created the Fan Spread herself and finds this particular spread more in depth.
Each position within a spread defines a meaning in relation to the type of spread
being dealt. While Nancy is speaking with you, she will shuffle and deal and then
interpret their meaning. Each card is interpreted by it’s individual symbolism
in combination with it’s symbolic position within the spread, in relation to the
cards surrounding it, and in relation to the question you are asking. Please keep
in mind, your questions are to be kept to yourself and not revealed to
Nancy unless she did not answer your question.
There are specific meanings associated with each card in a Tarot deck, but these
meanings are secondary to the unique interpretations that Nancy discovers within
the cards. The wish to know what the future holds is a universal one and the search
for your answers, and the best method to obtain them, has brought you here to
Nancy and her unique abilities.
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Tarot Readings, Crystal Ball Readings, Spiritual Readings by Nancy