Celebrate Valentine’s Day with $5 off all Love Tarot Readings

Love is in the air!
 
That’s right, it’s almost Valentines Day and to help celebrate, Biddy is offering $5 off all Love Tarot Readings between now and February 20, 2010. Choose from any of the Love Tarot Readings below:
 
Finding Love – Looking for the perfect relationship? Want to know how to bring love into your life? The Finding Love Tarot reading helps you understand how to find the right relationship and partner for you.
 
Potential Love - Do you have a ‘crush’ on someone? Want to know if there is potential for something more? The Potential Love Tarot reading provides insight into whether a potential or new relationship will blossom into something special in the future.
 
Current Relationship – In a current relationship and want to know where it is heading? The Relationship Tarot reading provides deep insight into how you can continue to grow and develop your relationship and create ever-lasting love.

Will I Get Back With My Ex? – Recently broken up with your partner? Want to know if there is any chance of a future together? The Ex Tarot reading helps you to understand whether this relationship is truly ‘meant to be’ and what you need to do to create positive outcomes.

To order your Love Tarot Reading, click on the links above or visit http://www.biddytarot.com/tarotreading.php. Following your online payment with PayPal, Biddy will confirm your request within 24 hours and will be able to read for you within 3-4 days from the date of your request.
 
Happy Valentine’s Day!
 
Biddy – Certified Professional Tarot Reader at Biddy Tarot

Weekly Tarot Card (Feb 8) – Nine of Wands Reversed

The card drawn for this week is the Nine of Wands reversed. Yes, the same card drawn only two weeks ago on Jan 25! So, if you didn’t pay attention to the message of this card the first time, you’d better pay attention this time!!

The Nine of Wands depicts a weary, injured man who holds a staff as though in a posture of final defense. He is protected by a number of wands propped up like a wall behind him. This card indicates struggle and the need to call up out of ourselves the strength needed to overcome a challenge which may seem insurmountable. The man in the card has survived many battles and even wears a bandage around his head. Yet in his eye is the determination to overcome this final challenge to his accomplishment and victory.

The Nine of Wands reversed suggests that you may be hesitant to make a long-term commitment. You may be feeling as if life is all work and no play, and you may feel overcome by responsibilities or a lack of support from those around you. As such, you are hesitant to make any commitments in fear that the responsibilities will become all too much. Be careful also of dwelling on past frustrations and grievances. Just try to let go.

You may also be more inclined to be a little ‘on edge’ and on the defensive. The boundaries you have set around yourself are now becoming your cage, locking you into your old habits and behaviours.

Be careful not to assume things or make hasty judgments. Lighten up a little and return to the eight of wands where you take life as it comes in all its various forms. Go with the flow and release yourself of the pressures you are feeling. A holiday or a break might do you some good where you can re-energise and rejuvenate yourself.

All the best,
Biddy

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The Major Arcana

The Major Arcana (also known as the trump cards) forms the foundation of the Tarot deck and consists of twenty-one numbered cards and one unnumbered card (the Fool). They represent a path to spiritual self-awareness and depict the various stages we encounter as we search for greater meaning and understanding. In this way, they hold deeply meaningful lessons.

The Major Arcana cards illustrate the structure of human consciousness and, as such, hold the keys to life lessons passed down through the ages. The imagery of the Major Arcana cards is filled with wisdom from multiple cultures and esoteric traditions, including the Egyptian, Buddhist, Hindu, Sufi, Hebrew and Christian religions.

In his book Pocket Guide to Tarot, Alan Oken suggests that the twenty-two Major Arcana cards are like the mandalas of the Tarot. Mandalas are detailed images painted onto canvas and used as spiritual study and meditation aids by the Tibetans. Therefore it is important to study the images of the Major Arcana cards and contemplate their messages. Look beyond the simple keywords and traditional meanings, and seek out your own personal meanings of these significant cards. The more you understand about their symbolism, the deeper your understanding of what they represent.

The Major Arcana cards can also represent Carl Jung’s archetypes – consistent, directing patterns of influence that are an inherent part of human nature. They are themes which mark, portray and symbolise stages in our psyche whereby we aim to become a balanced and integrated person. Along this journey, we encounter challenges, face adversity, perform labours, make hard decisions and fight opposing forces. Each step of the way brings us closer to enlightenment. This is often referred to as the journey of the Fool. If you are interested in reading more about the journey of the Fool, I highly recommend Karen Hamaker-Zondag’s book The Way of the Tarot: Jungian Approach for Deeper Insight into the Tarot.

When a Tarot reading is predominantly made up of Major Arcana cards, the client is experiencing life-changing events which will have long-term influences. There are important lessons which the client must pay attention to in order to progress further in their spiritual and personal quest. If many of the Major Arcana cards are reversed, however, it is indicative that the client is not paying attention to these important life lessons and must return to the lesson of the previous card before moving forward.

It is possible to conduct a Tarot reading only using the twenty-two Major Arcana cards. This method is typically used for Tarot readings relating to spiritual self-awareness or where you require deep insight from the collective unconscious.

The Major Arcana Cards – Keyword Descriptions

Fool – Beginning, innocence, spontaneity, carefree
Magician – Power, skill, concentration, action
High Priestess - Intuition, Higher power, mystery
Empress – Femininity, nurture, Mother Earth, nature, birth, fertility
Emperor – Authority, father-figure, structure, regulation, solid foundation
Hierophant – Group identification, conformity, tradition, religion
Lovers – Love, union, bonds, alignment, relationships
Chariot – Control, will power, victory, assertion
Strength – Strength, courage, patience, soft control
Hermit – Soul-searching, introspection, being alone, guidance
Wheel of Fortune – Luck, karma, destiny, turning point
Justice – Justice, fairness, karma, cause and effect
Hanged Man – Suspension, letting go, sacrifice, martyrdom
Death – Endings, beginnings, life cycle, transition
Temperance – Balance, moderation, patience
Devil – Bondage, addiction, sexuality, materialism
Tower – Disaster, shaken foundations, sudden change, revelation
Star – Hope, spirituality, renewal, inspiration
Moon – Illusion, fear, insecurity, mystery
Sun – Fun, warmth, love, positivity, enlightenment, vitality
Judgement – Judgement, rebirth, inner calling
World – Completion, integration, accomplishment

The Minor Arcana

The Minor Arcana consists of four suits:

• The Suit of Cups – emotions, feelings, creativity
• The Suit of Pentacles – finance, material possessions, career
• The Suit of Swords – power, intellect, thoughts
• The Suit of Wands – inspiration, spirituality, ideas

Each suit consists of fourteen Tarot cards, including ten numbered cards (Ace through to Ten) and four Court Cards (the Page, Knight, Queen and King). The numbered cards reflect everyday life situations while the Court Cards reflect personality-types or actual people. Combined, the Minor Arcana is said to highlight the more mundane aspects of life and can refer to day-to-day issues that have a temporary or minor influence. They describe the client’s psychological state and the current life focus.

However, the Minor Arcana is not to be simply discounted as unimportant. As Karen Hamaker-Zondag discusses in her book The Way of the Tarot: Jungian Approach for Deeper Insight into the Tarot, the number fourteen often occurs symbolically in the context of religion. The number seven is a sacred number in many different cultures. In its twofold manifestation, seven makes fourteen. Additionally, there are fourteen rungs of the ladder of Osiris (the ladder which joins Heaven and Earth) for it brings together spirituality and everyday life. This suggests that there is something more meaningful in those aspects of our lives we deem ‘ordinary’.

If a reading is predominantly made up of the Minor Arcana Tarot cards, the client is dealing with day-to-day issues which will not necessarily having a lasting influence in their lives. These issues are passing through their lives, presenting the client with an opportunity to learn from these experiences (look to any Major Arcana cards to understand what these lessons are and how they may impact your client’s life in the long-term).

Minor Arcana – The Suit of Wands

The Suit of Wands is representative of the element of Fire. They have to do with primal energy, spirituality, inspiration, determination, strength, intuition, creativity, ambition and expansion, original thought and the seeds through which life springs forth. Wands deal with the spiritual level of consciousness and mirror what is important to you at the core of your being. They address what makes us tick – our personalities, egos, enthusiasms, self-concepts, and personal energy, both internal and external.

Wands are also indicative of all things that you do during the day to keep you busy, be it working at the office, home or the great outdoors. Wands have to do with movement, action and initiatives and the launching of new ideas. They may be indicative of a never-ending ‘Ideas List’ or ‘To Do List’, whereby the client has many projects on the go to keep them busy.

The negative aspects of the Suit of Wands (i.e. when the Wands cards appear reversed) include illusion, egotistical behaviour, impulsiveness, a lack of direction or purpose, or feeling meaningless. To find out more, read How to Interpret Reversed Tarot Cards.

Wands represent the Fire signs of Leo, Sagittarius and Aries. Wands people (as typically seen in the Court Cards) are energetic, charismatic, warm, spiritual

When referring to timing in a Tarot reading, the Suit of Wands traditionally represents Summer or weeks. In a deck of playing cards, Wands corresponds to Clubs.

Should a Tarot reading be predominantly Wands cards, then you can be sure that the client is seeking solutions to issues that are based mainly in the realm of thought, or are in the first stages of development. The client may also be seeking greater purpose and meaning in their lives and will want to understand more about what motivates and energises them.

The Suit of Wands – Keyword Descriptions

Ace of Wands – Inspiration, power, creation, beginnings
Two of Wands – Dominion, decision, negotiation, obstacles
Three of Wands – Preparation, group energy, fate, luck, successful enterprise
Four of Wands – Celebration, harmony, marriage, holiday, relaxation
Five of Wands – Collaboration, irritation, competition, strife
Six of Wands – Recognition, victory, progress, excellent news
Seven of Wands – Challenge, good results, valour
Eight of Wands – Passion, speed, flight, activation
Nine of Wands – Courage, persistence, advantage, stability
Ten of Wands – Accomplishment, stress, excess activity, oppression
Page of Wands – Ambition, enthusiasm, pure intention, helpful information
Knight of Wands – Excitement, energy, flexible intuition, adventure
Queen of Wands – Exuberance, initiatory self, inspiration
King of Wands – Leadership, entrepreneur, conscious self, honour