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There are many therapeutic uses of Tarot, especially by using of its images. Many people are turning proactive and are considering ways to incorporate Tarot into some fitness program or the other. Today, there are two distinct Tarot schools of thought – the divinatory, and the therapeutical. Where the divinatory Tarot is used to foretell the future – so to say, the therapeutic Tarot helps reveal and explain the psychological blocks, emotional blocks, fears, and behavior patterns. The behavior patterns impede an individual’s full realization, and the therapeutic Tarot offers guidance to resolve this and other factors.
For many people, meditating on some aspect of the Tarot enables them to focus on their quest for spirituality, as well as look towards their physical wellness. For example, meditating on the inspiration of the Star helps some to focus on their spiritual quest. Others find the Moon helpful in their ability to deal with those nagging hurts, pain, frustration, and guilt, among others.
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56 cards from the 78-card Tarot deck are known as the Minor Arcana. The reading of Tarot cards is done with both, the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana cards, simultaneously. The Major Arcana cards describe the larger issues in life, whereas the Minor Arcana cards describe how the querent will react to a given circumstance, depending on the individual’s own nature, upbringing, current life style and background.
Suppose a couple of persons are fired from a job. One takes the matter stoically, and is not bothered much, as he/she may have an alternative ready. The other person may completely breakdown, as he/she may have nothing ready as an alternative. If both of these go for a Tarot reading, they would draw the Death card, denoting an end, but their Minor Arcana cards would be different, considering the different reactions.
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Tarot cards are a set of special cards used for fortune telling, divination, and solving problems, in addition to just plain playing. Although thought to have originated, either in China, Egypt, or in India, its true origins are lost in the mists of time. It is, however, well known that the Tarot cards, in their modern avatar, first appeared in the late 14th century, or early 15th century Italy.
The Mystery Of Tarot
Many mystics are of the view that symbols represented by Tarot emerged from the ‘Akashic’ records, a vast astral repository of universal knowledge that has the past, present, and future memories and wisdom of the entire human race. The basic figures and symbols found in all religions, myths, legends, are found within this collective pool of astral knowledge.
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Of the 78 cards used in Tarot, 22 of them are the major cards, and are called the Major Arcana. They are of high divinatory importance and relate to human nature. These illustrated cards are numbered from 0 to 21 and are also referred to as the trumps of the Tarot deck of cards.
Each of these major cards has its own symbolism and imagery, which has to be interpreted by the Tarot reader in context with the question of the querent. Many Tarot readers try out different decks of cards, and some find that different decks suit different moods and questions.
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