To begin with, you might like to use the keywords for the card meanings shown on pages 29 and 118 as a quick reference. The interpretations chapters follow from page 29 on. There’s no right or wrong way to lay out cards just the way that’s right for you. The mini-layouts are all original to this book, and I invite you to share them and use them as inspiration for devising your own spreads the aim is to help you be creative with tarot, to experiment and find ways to read the cards that work for you. You can try the traditional spreads on pages 20-28, and the mini-layouts given for each major arcana card-a total of thirty. Next, you’ll learn how to lay out the cards for a reading. We begin with the basics-the structure of a tarot deck, and how the cards to link with astrology, Kabbala, and numbers (see pages 10 and 19). Any Tarot reader, be they a serious scholar or a person dabbling in the occult, will benefit from Waite’s insight and keen perception.This book offers everything you need to know to read tarot cards for daily affirmation, prediction, and intuitive and spiritual development.Īnyone can learn to work with tarot and can benefit greatly from its insights all you need is an open mind and a willingness to trust the impressions you sense during a reading. Waite successfully presents a new dimension to their meaning in The Key to the Tarot. One of the fascinating aspects about Tarot cards is their personal affect upon the individual who uses them. As card playing increased in popularity, the Major Arcana cards were dropped (except for The Fool which was retained as the Joker) and the Cavalier and Page were combined into today’s Jack, thus giving us the standard deck of 52 cards plus Joker. Today’s ordinary decks of playing cards seemingly descend from the medieval Tarot decks. Suit origins are believed to represent the four estates of life during medieval times: nobility or persons who held their rank by military service were symbolized by swords peasants or working-class people by clubs clergymen and statesmen by cups and tradesmen and the industrial class by coins. The suits are generally Swords (Spades), Batons or Wands (Clubs), Cups (Hearts), and Coins or Pentacles (Diamonds). The 56 Lesser Arcana cards contain four suits including the usual court cards King, Queen, Jack (Valet, Page) plus a fourth card, the Cavalier (Knight, Knave), which is placed between the Queen and the Jack. The brief descriptive title on each of the 22 Major Arcana cards serves as a catalyst toward a broader and deeper meaning, which the diviner seeks to express. Today, Tarot fortune-telling readings generally take into account not only the individual divinatory meaning of a card but also the proximity between two or more cards and whether the card is upright or reversed (which weakens, delays and even reverses the meaning). Or perhaps some inventive genius subsequently combined the common 56 cards known as the Minor Arcana with the 22 esoteric and emblematic Tarot cards known as the Major Arcana to form the 78-card pack. It is generally accepted that playing cards emerged in Europe in the latter half of the fourteenth century, probably first in Italy as a complete 78-card deck. Covelluzzo, a fifteenth-century chronicler, relates the introduction into Viterbo of the game of cards in the year 1379. A German monk, Johannes, describes a game called Ludas Cartarum played in the year 1377. The emergence of Tarot cards in Europe predates by over five centuries the work of Waite. Gebelin asserts that it is from the Egyptians and Gypsies that Tarot cards were dispersed throughout Europe. Mercury, said to be one of the early Kings and the inventor of the hieroglyphic system. In The Key to the Tarot he writes: “The true Tarot is symbolism it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.” What are the Tarot cards about which Waite so skillfully writes? What is the message of each card and when and where did these fascinating cardboard symbols first originate? Waite utilized symbolism as the key to the Tarot pack. Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) was a genuine scholar of occultism whose published works include The Holy Kabbalah and The Key to the Tarot first issued in England in 1910.
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