
The High Priestess may represent your feeling of deep connection to the divine feminine within you. Maybe the Four of Cups reminds you of the time you kept getting job offers that just didn’t interest you. See if you can relate each card to a time in your life when you experienced what this card is portraying or to someone you know who has these characteristics. Looking at each Tarot card, how are these Tarot card meanings characterized by a lack of movement? 6) Personalize the Tarot card meanings Now go through your deck again and take out the cards that show a total absence of movement (eg: The Hanged Man, Four of Swords, King of Wands, Knight of Pentacles). Looking at each Tarot card individually, how does the movement in that card relate to that cards meaning? Go through your deck and take out the cards that show obvious movement (eg: The Tower – people falling downward, Knight of Swords – charging toward something, Five of Pentacles – limping along with difficu lty, Five of Wands – lots of movement but nobody’s going anywhere!) If you can’t see a link between the cards in each number group, what are the differences? 5) Observe any movement (or lack thereof) Now look for the similarities – can you grasp a particular theme with each numerical group? Sometimes this is obvious and other times it is not. Put all the Aces together, all the Twos together, etc…until you have ten groups of four cards. Re-organize your Minor Arcana cards so they are grouped according to their number. This can really help you understand each Tarot cards meaning on a deep level.


The shining star in The Hermit’s lantern, in my opinion, stands for the guiding light of conscious awareness, and the uneven ground that the Page of Swords is standing on symbolizes instability. Go through your Tarot deck and choose one symbol on each card that represents an aspect of that cards meaning for you.įor me, the sun in the right hand corner of The Fool Tarot card represents optimism. Of course not all Tarot cards are so obviously illustrated, but this technique will work for many of the minor arcana cards.

Jot down your impressions and then look up the Tarot card meaning in your companion book to see how close you were.

Indeed, the Eight of Cups meaning is all about moving on and searching for deeper meaning and fulfillment even if it means leaving something that one has worked hard to build up. It would appear as though this person is going off in search of something, perhaps even abandoning the cups. Really look at each Tarot card and ask what is going on here? What is the card imagery telling me?įor example, the Eight of Cups shows a figure walking away from eight stacked cups. Many Tarot cards in the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck illustrate some kind of scene unfolding.
