Tarot Cards

Tarot is a time-honoured tradition of using a set of cards to gain insight and achieve greater control over issues involving relationships, opportunities, and life changes. Over 1,000 years old, with roots that go back 3,000, Tarot is a repository of ancient wisdom. Interestingly, our modern playing cards are a subset of the Tarot deck (and it's possible to read them too!).


The history of Tarot symbols is shrouded in mystery. Tarot is believed to have come out of China, India or Egypt. Modern tarot cards date back to 14th Century Spain, Italy and France.

A tarot deck consists of 78 cards that you lay out in any one of a number of spreads. Each card is symbolic of an energy or spiritual truth, its relevance depending upon its position in the spread. There are so many possible outcomes that tarot readers spend decades mastering the meanings of all the cards in all the different combinations. Books are one resource, but can only help so much.

Using the power of Synchronicity, Tarot taps both the subconscious and the super-conscious Mind, the centre of our psychic abilities. Anyone can become a good tarot reader. But a gifted reader of Tarot is far more than someone exercising innate psychic abilities. An appreciation of the power of the archetypes contained in the images on the cards demands a classical understanding.
 
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