Tarot Card Reading
Tarot card reading is a form of cartomancy whereby practitioners use tarot cards purportedly to gain insight into the past, present, or future. Tarot tells stories about the cycles of our lives by shuffling the deck, picking out cards, and laying them out in order.
The Tarot deck is the most popular and recognizable divination tool often used in psychic readings and for spiritual development. Even beyond that, each card is packed with information, some systems rely on numerology (i.e. where the card falls in the deck), astrology, and the Kabbalah to give deeper or slightly different levels of meaning and each deck is even slightly different. The Rider-Waite deck, though, is the one with which many tarot newbies begin, not only because it’s the most common and easiest to find but because illustrator Pamela Colman Smith’s images are so colorful and clear and packed with symbols to indicate what the card itself means.