I love the tarot! I have been using the tarot for about eighteen years for self reflection, guidance, clarity, and offering new perspectives to move through challenges with more self confidence. Sometimes when I feel stuck and can’t see a way forward, I will open a celtic cross tarot spread just to show me a new insight or way I had not been able to see by myself.
Tarot cards are a beautiful archetypal journey of the stages of life shown through symbolic images and has been around since the 15th century. The first tarot deck that we know of was commissioned by the Visconti-Sforza family in Italy sometime around the 1430’s. The tarot has lasted through all this time and is a testament to the interest people have had and continue to this day to use the tarot for support in understanding our human voyage through life.
I feel the fundamental reason that the tarot works to guide us is that it uses the universal human shared experience in symbolic themes in life. The tarot contains all the archetypal templates that most of us go through in a lifetime, or are held as a potential in our lives. Each tarot card, especially the major arcana, embodies a universal archetype helping us to explore these aspects within ourselves for self growth and new insights into our own lives so we can live our fullest potential.
Some examples of these significant archetypes are the “Fool,” who shows the innocence we have when we first start our journey with no learned experience yet, leaving home to begin our own lives. The “Empress” is the symbol for the creational mother and our creativity within us for our passions as well. The Emperor is the archetype for the masculine father and knowing how to manifest foundations in our lives to sustain us, and so on for the twenty-two major arcana.
The minor arcana are set up with four groups. The cups represent the archetype of our emotional experience, the swords represent our minds and thoughts, the wands represent our passion and creativity, while pentacles are the archetype for the earthly realm of money and work. The minor arcana are more detailed representations of what we experience in our everyday lives. For example, the “3 of swords” represents heartbreak—something most of us experience at some point. The “10 of cups” represents achieving happiness in a situation, traveling through the journey to a point of receiving joy for a job well done.
There is a valuable structure to the tarot that reflects the human experience through life. This is why I believe tarot works so well and why it is still here today. It reflects the fundamental journey we all go through as human beings. Sometimes we get lost, stuck, or confused and need some help along the way. When I give a tarot reading, it becomes a story in itself. Reading through the celtic cross spread, with each card placed in its specific position, allows the story to unfold card by card. Each placement has a unique meaning and helps the person receiving the reading connect the cards into a meaningful and creative narrative.
As a tarot reader, I offer my knowledge from having studied tarot for many years, along with my experience as a Reiki Master. I use tarot readings to support everyone in their own self empowerment. I do not use tarot for future telling, but rather as a tool to help people go deeper within themselves—exploring how they can work through challenges, find clarity, and move forward with more understanding and confidence. I see tarot as a creative and enjoyable way to grow, learn, and connect more fully with our life paths.
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