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MEANING OF THE MAJOR ARCANA OF THE TAROTS

Clicking on "Meaning of the Major Arcana of the Tarots", you’ll find instructions on how to read the cards on your own extracting one or more cards as you feel. If you don’t have a deck to hand, you can use this electronic device. Position the mouse on “Go". Close your eyes and think of the question that is important for you. Formulate the question mentally in a clear, simple way. You can pick out a card for the day, week, or year, without making specific queries. Still with your eyes closed, let the mouse move till you feel it’s the right moment to click on “Go". Learn to recognize your sensations and trust them. When you click on “Go", a card will be visualised (upright or reversed) which is the reply to your query. If having read the answer you need further clarification, you can repeat the action specifying mentally your request. Don’t repeat more than four or five times for the same question.If you are using tablets or other mobile devices click to start with on “Go" to shuffle the cards, and when you feel it’s right click again on “Go" to see the card that’s the answer to your question.For more information on how to formulate queries, listen to the video for this section.

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Learn to recognize your sensations and trust them.

II – The PopessUpright: if the querent is a woman, this card may indicate that you are too strict and you don’t let yourself get involved too much in situations which instead require more involvement, or it can be an invitation to greater wisdom. For querents of either sex, the card may refer to an external female figure; a boss, a mother, a mother-in-law, a wife, a friend. In this case it’s someone not necessarily negative, but a bit rigid and strict.Reversed: if the querent is female, the reversed card may indicate a loss of wisdom or patience, and be an invite to regain these qualities. For either sex, the card may refer to an external female figure: a boss, a mother, a mother-in-law, a spouse, a female friend who behaves badly or is seen as doing so by the querent.

III - The EmpressUpright: if the querent is a woman, the card may refer to the querent herself and indicate total success in the field or fields dear to her. For a male querent the card indicates the lady of his heart.Reversed: if the querent is a woman, the upright card may refer to the querent herself and indicate not a total failure but a partial success in the area or areas most at heart. If the querent is male, it reveals a weakening of the figure of the woman he loves, because he himself has less intense feelings, or because the sentiments of the woman are less strong, or because she is physically or psychologically distant.

IV - The EmperorUpright: if the querent is a man, it may refer to him and indicate complete success in the area or areas most at heart. If the querent is a woman the card indicates the man in her heart, or the need to get in touch with her masculine side and put it in action (for example showing more guts to achieve what she wants)Reversed: if the querent is a man the upturned card may refer to him indicating a partial failure in the field or fields most at heart. If the querent is a woman it indicates a weakening of the man she loves, because the woman has less intense sentiments or his feelings are dwindling, or because he’s physically or psychologically distant. Or it may mean that a woman doesn’t express her masculine side enough, in the sense of the ability to terminate actions successfully, or a man who doesn’t express his strength, his ability to give a woman love or live out his sexual life.

V - The PopeUpright: if the querent is a man, this card may indicate that you are too strict and you don’t let yourself get involved too much in situations which instead require more involvement. If the querent is a woman, it may indicate that she’s in a relationship with a man who isn’t involved sentimentally due to heavy commitments. For both sexes it may indicate an external male figure: a boss, a father, a father–in-law, a husband, a male friend. In this case it’s someone not necessarily negative, but a bit rigid and strict, or someone who inspires fear. The Pope upright is really a good card only when it represents a doctor (if for example the querent has asked about health).Reversed: if the querent is male, the card may refer to the querent himself and indicates he’s behaving badly and he knows it. For either sex, the card may refer to an external male figure who behaves badly in any sector of life, or is seen as doing so by the querent.

VI - The LoversUpright: this card indicates the need to choose between two situations, or persons. Usually one of the two situations or persons is associated with material advantages, the other with spiritual advantages.Reversed: one is aware of having to make a choice, but this is put off.

VII - The ChariotUpright: it’s a card indicating success, as long as one is able in a certain situation to attune contrasting inner or exterior forces, or both. With this card you can’t relax.Reversed: the situation is getting out of hand, or there’s fear that this might happen.

VIII - JusticeUpright: things are going in the right direction. Even though you don’t notice it yet, you’re working in accord with the Divine plan, and the Divine Plan is in accord with you. Correctness in relationships.Reversed: you may have the impression that someone or even Fate itself is acting badly towards you. Pick another card to see how to adjust the situation.

IX - The HermitUpright: indicates a period of solitude, or the need to understand something on one’s own. Even though you’re in the midst of others, no one can help you find the answers.Reversed: the card has the same meaning as when it’s upright, but only weaker.

X - The Wheel of FortuneUpright: this card is usually picked by those who tend to keep everything under control, and it’s an invitation to believe in the goodness of fate and the gifts most certainly bestowed if the querent has faith and lets go.Reversed: it indicates a temporary stand still in any area of life.

XI - FortitudeUpright: a card of success provided that one’s able to check and dominate one’s instincts.Reversed: indicates physical and/or psychic fatigue, or feeling of not being able to manage in any situation in life. Take another card to find out how to regain your lost faith in yourself.

XII - The Hanged ManUpright: itindicates a sacrifice on a personal level or in real situations, demanded from outside. Through imposed limits one can grow and develop as long as you are able to accept this possibility. In the opposite case you’ll only feel the aspect of constraint and blockage expressed by the card. In relationships it represents the need to give up certain sides of one’s personality (for example pride) in order to accommodate others.Reversed: it’s weaker compared to the upright card: it indicates a less strong limit, but also less opportunity of development.

XIII - DeathUpright: indicates a period of inner or outer change or both, or the need to undergo a transformation.Reversed: like the upright card but weaker.

XIV - TemperanceUpright: it’s a card of restoration of equilibrium of health, physical and psychic healing. It indicates that through calm and patience one can attain the best balance possible in a determined situation.Reversed: indicates impatience, which won’t lead to anything positive.

XV - The DevilUpright: indicates inner conflicts, more or less caused by outside events. Pick another card to find out how to resolve your conflict or conflicts.Reversed: like the upright card, but weaker.

XVI - The TowerUpright: indicates a drastic cut, the final end of something. It may be a good thing, even though momentarily painful, in that it’s something over and done with or about to end and it wasn’t right for the querent.Reversed: the momentary suspension of a situation or a relationship.

XVII - The StarsUpright: it’s the card of protection from on high. The Beings of Light ally to help the querent. Unexpected gifts are on their way.Reversed: The gifts of the Universe are not accepted, out of fear, or incapacity for seeing them.

XVIII - The MoonUpright: indicates obstacles in the outside world through which the querent will feel inner conflicts that will give him the opportunity to confront karmic blockages (the tendency to repeat painful situations due to the memory, even unconsciously, of events from past lives. Pick another card to see how to change your karma positively.Reversed: like the upright card, but weaker.

XIX - The SunUpright: success in one’s love and /or work life. There’s love and harmony around the querent.Reversed: partial success in the work sphere. The querent is held in affection but not intensively enough to warm his existence.

XX - JudgementUpright: positive news, able to bring about a radical change in the querent’s life, is on the way in the form of a meeting, letter, phone call.Reversed: news on the way but which arrives late, or not as favourable as the querent expected, or not efficacious enough to open up a new direction in his life.

XXI - The WorldUpright: this card implies encounters, social life and worldliness, pleasurable events. However it’s not a card of stability, and so not so favorable as it may seem. In personal relationships it may indicate a relationship lived on a day to day basis, without commitment.Reversed: lots of opportunities, but often they’re just a waste of time.

The FoolUpright: indicates uncertainty, indecision, not knowing which way to go. Sometimes it can seem an invitation to go with the flow, without too many questions.Reversed: like the upright card, only weaker.

I - The MagicianUpright: a card linked to success, provided you’re prepared to carry through a job and take on engagements in one or more sectors of life (work, study, love, interpersonal relationships, etc.)Reversed: the reversed card shows, due to external circumstances, or little involvement, the task to be completed and engagements made, will be carried out with little commitment, and results will not be that good.

XII - The Hanged ManUpright: it indicates a sacrifice on a personal level or in real situations, demanded from outside. Through imposed limits one can grow and develop as long as you are able to accept this possibility. In the opposite case you’ll only feel the aspect of constraint and blockage expressed by the card. In relationships it represents the need to give up certain sides of one’s personality (for example pride) in order to accommodate others.Reversed: it’s weaker compared to the upright card: it indicates a less strong limit, but also less opportunity of development.

XIII - DeathUpright: indicates a period of inner or outer change or both, or the need to undergo a transformation.Reversed: like the upright card but weaker.