What is Tarot & how it works?

Tarot is a system of archetypes, a picture-book of the human condition, reflecting our states of mind and stages of life. Over the past six hundred years, people have consulted the cards for religious instruction, spiritual insight, self-knowledge, and divining the future. The ancient symbols we see on the cards are designed to stimulate our intuition, connecting us with our higher selves or our divine or spiritual aspect.

Tarot has collected many esoteric associations over the years. A standard tarot deck includes seventy-eight cards, divided into two groups: twenty-two major arcana cards and fifty-six minor arcana cards. The word arcana means secret. The major arcana denote important life events or shifts, while the minor arcana cards reflect day-to-day events. The minor arcana cards can be seen as being more detailed aspects of the major arcana cards. Tarot shows each and every minute details of the life journey of a human being by the combination of the major arcana and minor arcana cards. To learn and read tarot it is very important to observe each and every minute detail description given in a card. Tarot card reading is more about observing the cards and less about memorizing the meaning of the cards. Therefore, the accuracy of a tarot reading depends upon the observation, understanding and correlation power of the reader.