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The Tarot Deck

In the world of fortune telling and life reading, many people emerged and tell the world that they have the ability to do so. You can say that some of these people who claimed to have special abilities to see a person’s future clearly are real, since there are real psychics up to date. There are also some who pretended that they can as fraud or to fool other people. There is no really such things as predicting an individual’s future precisely. No one can do it in a hundred percent way, there are only probabilities.


Probabilities meaning it might come true or might not. It will depend on the person, whether they will choose to trust or not to trust. As they said, if you will strongly believe on things, it will become true and if you not, then nothing will become, in reality. As you said people giving you, probabilities of what will happen in the future won’t tell you the exact time, date and place. Instead, they will just tell you the probable scenario of what will happen. This will serve as a warning or caution, and then will provide you pieces of advice.


These people use different tools in predicting one’s future or readings someone’s past as well as their present. They might use a person’s personal stuff, your read the palm. However, one of the most famous methods in telling things that are related with the future or your present and your past is through the tarot deck or the tarot card.


The tarot deck consists of arcana. The Minor and the Major Arcana, and each arcanum are represented with different numbers of cards. Such as, for the Major Arcana there are 22 different cards and considered as the most powerful cards. The Minor arcana is consists with the 56 remaining cards. There are four suits under the minor arcana. The suits are the cups, wands, swords and last but not the least, the coins. Each suit bears 14 individual cards. The ace (1) up to ten, then followed by the King and Queen cards and then the Knight and lastly, the Page (Knight). “Jean Baptise Pitois” or (Paul Christian) is the first person who uses the two arcana (Minor and Major).


In tarot reading, the tarot deck is required to be shuffled before letting the client choose the specific number of cards that the reader would read.  Of course, the number of cards needed, will depend on the tarot spread they are using. Most of the tarot spreads has a specific direction. If you want the reader more on general, there are tarot spreads that are allocated for this such as the Celtic cross and such. There are also spreads that are for relationship or love, money and finance, career and work, family and friends purposes.

In doing the interpretation, the reader may use different approaches such as the Qabbalistic approach, the mythopoetic approach and more. There are a lot of interesting things you can do with the tarot deck. And it is for you to find out.

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