Characters with Male and Female Genders in the Tarot Cards are quite common. For a long time, I thought that this was merely the creative decision of the Designer of that Tarot Deck. However, as I worked with the cards, over the years, this perception has changed. Today, I would like to talk a little bit about the Masculine or Male and the Feminine or Female Gender Characters in the Tarot Cards, and what they have come to mean for me.
How do you interpret the cards when the card images differ from deck to deck? Do you stick to the card meanings from the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck, and ignore the (sometimes subtle) meaning changes in the other decks? Or do you just abandon the Rider-Waite-Smith card meanings altogether?
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When you do a Tarot Card Reading, you lay the cards in a Spread. And a Spread is made up of a number of Positions. Occasionally you’ll end up with getting positive cards in a negative spread position, and negative cards in a positive spread position. This is most probably because the cards have a wacky sense of humor. ?
Let’s see how we can make sense of these combinations, and do an excellent reading for our clients!
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Focus is one of the most heard of buzz words all around the internet and self-help circle. And with good reason. As distractions surround us more and more, it becomes all the more important for each of us to find the place and space where we can focus on our tasks, and achieve our targets and goals.
Among the 78 Tarot Cards in a standard Tarot Card Deck, there are a few Tarot Cards that have similar or common meanings. Just as the imagery of each card differs from one another, these meanings carry subtle but important differences within them that affect the interpretation of that Tarot Card in a Tarot Card Reading.
In Section Two of my book Tarot Reading Using Storytelling Techniques, I wrote my version of the stories of each of the 78 Tarot Cards. Since then, many of my book’s readers have contacted me, and shared with me their card stories, which I have read with great joy. Therefore, it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you the Tarot Card Stories by Joana, a wonderful lady who contacted me via FaceBook, and shared these brilliant stories with me. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
Romance. Relationships. Love. These are the main topics of at least 90% of the readings I do for my clients. On the occasion of Valentines Day, lets have a look at the different cards in the Tarot deck that talk about romance in the Tarot Cards.
The Japaridze Tarot Card Deck has been created by the contemporary, surrealist artist Nino Japaridze.
Born in 1961, in Tbilisi, Georgia, Nino Japaridze is a talented artist. She has widely exhibited her works since her childhood. After completing her studies in the Fine Arts Academy, she moved to Paris and began exhibiting her work all across Europe. Today, she works and lives in Paris with her daughter, Anna.
Tarot for Writers by Corrine Kenner is an amazing resource for writers and storytellers across the world, who are looking for another source of inspiration for their work. Let’s have a look at what this book is all about.
