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Tarot Meaning - a symbolic
awakening of self awareness
The Tarot meaning of the 22 major
Arcana cards walk through & represent life with
a short review of the Tarot Meaning of each
card.
The tarot meaning of the
first card, The Fool is representative of the
newly born child entering the world, pure,
innocent, and unaware of itself as a separate
person; it is still enveloped in its
unconscious.
The second of the tarots,
The Magician and its tarot meaning is symbolic
of the awakening of self-awareness and the
appearance of the individual ego. The card shows
a man wielding magical weapons of consciousness
and which he will use to conquer the world.
The next four tarots, The
High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, and
The High Priest, refer to the most important
powers that the infant ego will meet which
means: male and female, material and
spiritual. These tarot meanings will channel the
individual to his surroundings to the four
functions of Intuition, Feeling, Sensation and
Thought. They are primary to his development and
growth.
The VI is The Lovers and the
tarot meaning of this one indicates the first
important choice in life, changing from
adolescence and the comfort of family in favour
of a mate. The tarot meaning of this
major arcana is that the
individual becomes fully responsible for his own
actions and therefore responsible for his
destiny in life.
This is followed by The
Chariot that signifies moving on and adapting to
society and constructing a safe ‘vehicle’ in
which to best travel and proceed through the
world.
The tarot meaning of number
eight, Justice coincides with the onset of
physical maturity, and indicates that until now
the individual’s development has been one-sided,
the conscious aspect having been developed at
the expense of the unconscious. The time has
come when the balance must be checked if psychic
flow and development is not likely to cease and
stagnate. Justice is the tarot meaning and voice
of conscience.
The Hermit appears to be a
lonely figure but the tarot meaning of this card
describes the process of self-examination which
will follow if the individual listens to the
prompting the conscience is receiving. . The
widening and moving on by the Charioteer has
come to an end, and a new and narrower path must
now be found.
Then we arrive at The Wheel
of Fortune, the mid-point of life, the stage at
which the peak is passed and the descent
begins. The tarot meaning of this can go many
ways. It can clearly indicate what is to come in
the future as determined from the past.
Wider and
individual meaning of each tarot card are
illustrated on a separate page.
The meaning of the next
card, the Hermit is a strange tarot but one of
the nicest cards of the pack in that it means
that oneself realises that insurmountable
difficulties are common to all mankind not just
to him alone. This realisation and insight that
his sufferings are not peculiar to him alone,
gives him the ability to detach himself enough
to subdue the fears within. This is the same in
meaning as the woman in the Fortitude tarot as
she is seen overcoming the lion. Only by
confronting the fears can the unconscious be
disarmed and the full extent of the tarot
meaning of this card can be understood.
The Hanged Man tarot meaning
symbolises the reversal of values and its aims
which should take place during the second half
of life. It means that courage is needed to
renounce the past in favour of an uncertain
future. But the sacrifice must be made for
psychic progress to continue.
The next usually frightens
people, Death but the tarot meaning of this card
is not of physical death but death of the old
self to make way for the new. This
transformation must now take place so that the
energy locked within might be released and
therefore meaning that the individual is
directed towards the maturity of the better and
higher self.
This is followed by
Temperance with the tarot meaning of the demands
and powers of life having resulted in a renewal
of contact and the greatest challenge of the
quest where the descent into bad and evil or
that which was lost, has ended in victory
meaning that the consciousness and unconscious
are balanced and the imbalance shown earlier by
Justice is being corrected.
The tarot meaning of The
Devil indicates that the dangers of the journey
are not yet over, however, the forces of the
unconscious have been released and the seeker
must either submit to the mindless powers of
instinct, or, its tarot meaning is that they
must absorb these powers and change them into a
much more positive form.
The reverse tarot meaning of
the Devil, Satan is the glorious angel Lucifer,
the light bringer which can be interpreted in
meaning with receiving a helping hand to show
the way or perhaps a sign will be given to help
the individual follow the right path.
The next tarot meaning of
the Tower, graphically describes the gift of
Lucifer. His light is the fire of enlightenment
which descends like a flash of lightening,
destroying everything in its path which is not
compatible with its own nature. It is the surge
of power which is felt when the psychological
blocks between the lower and higher selves are
removed, and the light of God irradiates the
personality.
The Star is a symbol of
higher consciousness, the Evening Star tarot
meaning acts as a guide during the darkness
which must follow the blinding brilliance of the
divine lightening-bolt. Usually good things
begin to happen particularly with a positive
approach to life.
The Moon symbolises the
final great trial which must be gone through,
the dark night of the soul which follows the
withdrawal of the inward light, and everything
is seen as illusion. The tarot meaning is that
the test here is one of faith.
The
Sun tarot meaning represents the reconciliation
of the opposites, the coming together of the
mortal and immortal self. This card is similar
to the marriage of the royal brother and sister
in alchemy. The night is past and a new day is
dawning.
Judgement shows the rebirth of the whole self,
Therefore figures are seen rising from the dead
on the Day of Judgement.
The
tarot meaning of The World is full circle and
the androgynous figure dancing
within an encircling
wreath is a symbol of psychic wholeness and is
in complete harmony and fulfilment of ones
mature self.
It
can also be seen as meaning and representing a
child in the womb, in which case it leads
naturally on to the card at the beginning of the
sequence, the Fool, the newborn child commencing
its journey through life. This would accord
well with the Gnostic doctrines regarding
reincarnation and the succession of lives
leading on to higher and still higher
attainment.
The
Tarot meaning throughout the cards links the
world of man with the world of the spirit,
binding together all levels of reality and
opening inner doors which were closed. A large
part of the reading interpretation of these
tarot card meanings lie in the fact that their
imagery cannot be fitted into any hard and fast
rule, they can never by fully comprehended in
any one manner, therefore, they offer new and
very original insights to everyone who studies
them.
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