The use of twelve main tarot cards

Tarot cards are usually regarded as a tool for divination. In the traditional interpretation of tarot cards, there is a questioner-a person who seeks answers to personal questions, and an interpreter-a person who knows how to interpret tarot cards.

After the questioner shuffles and cuts the cards, the reader unfolds the selected cards in some form, which is called the card array. Every position in this deck has a meaning, and every card has a special meaning. The interpreter combines these two meanings to guide the questioner's question.

There is a traditional card and five swords in the tarot card. This card shows a man with three swords, looking at two people in the distance, while the other two swords are lying on the ground. When I looked at this card, I began to create a story based on the image in this picture. I see a man who seems satisfied with the battle he won. He looks very complacent. He owns all the swords. The other two looked depressed and failed.

All I do is take an image with a beginning and an end and project a story on it. For me, my point of view obviously takes away the only explanation of this scene. In fact, others may imagine a completely different story. Maybe the man is trying to pick up the sword on the ground, or he is calling others to help him, but they refuse to help him. Or, maybe two other people are fighting, and he is persuading them to lay down their weapons.

The point is that among all possible stories, I chose one. Why? Because it is human nature to project unconscious thoughts into things in the environment, we always see the real image through the lens formed by our inner state. Psychotherapists have recorded this tendency for a long time, and they have created some tools to help the treatment process. The famous Rorschach Ink Test (a test to analyze the personality of subjects according to their reactions to irregular ink patterns) is based on this psychological projection.

Projection is one of the reasons why tarot cards are valuable. Interesting pictures and tables on tarot cards are effective tools to sneak into the subconscious. This is the personal aspect of tarot cards, but tarot cards also have the component of collective consciousness. As human beings, we usually have some similar needs and experiences. These images on the tarot cards capture the moments of these experiences and draw them at will. People often make similar reactions to the same cards, because these cards represent the prototype of human nature. After centuries of development, tarot cards have developed a set of the most basic forms of human thoughts and emotions.

Look at the queen card. She represents the law of motherhood-the richness of life itself. Notice how her images capture rich emotions. She sat on a soft and comfortable chair cushion, and her robe hung down and wrapped her. In the Queen Card, we feel the vastness of nature and the richness of senses.

The power of tarot cards comes from the combination of personal power and cosmic power. You can look at each card in your own way, but at the same time, you should understand that what others find has other meanings. Tarot cards are a mirror that reflects the hidden faces hidden in your own unique consciousness.

When we interpret tarot cards, we will choose some cards to cut cards and group them. Although this process seems random, we still think that the tarot cards we choose are special. This must be one of the key points of tarot card interpretation-choosing the cards we want to see. Now, common sense tells us that random tarot cards don't mean special meaning, or can they mean special meaning?

To answer this question, let's take a closer look at the matter of taking a card at will. Usually we say that a random event is the result of the interaction between opportunity and unconscious forces. Draw a result from some possible results, but not for special reasons.

This explanation includes two key assumptions about random events: they are the result of unconscious forces and they have no special significance. First of all, tarot card interpretation is not only the product of unconscious power, but also the result of a series of conscious activities. We decided to study tarot cards. We bought a deck of tarot cards to learn how to use them. We shuffle and cut cards in a certain way, and finally, we interpret the meaning of these cards from our own point of view.

At every step of the process, we actively participate. Why is tarot interpretation a random interpretation of unconscious forces? Because we can't explain how our consciousness participates. We know that the cards we choose are not very detailed, saying that they are random cards. In fact, there is a deep mechanism operating silently. Does it have anything to do with our unconscious forces? Our inner state is related to external events in a way that we don't fully understand? This possibility is left to you to answer.

Another feature of random events is that they have no original meaning. When I roll the dice and get a 6, the result is aimless. I can throw one just as easily, which means the same thing. Do we really know the probability of averaging these two results? Maybe every event has some meaning and purpose, no matter how big or small, we can't see it.

At a party many years ago, I suddenly wanted to pick up a dice on the ground. I really believe that I can roll every number with this dice. When I started to roll the dice, the laughter and noise at the party faded away. I feel more and more excited whenever different numbers appear on the dice. I didn't regain consciousness until the last successful dice roll. I sat back in my original position, puzzled by what had just happened.

On one level, these six dice rolls are irrelevant, just random events, but on another level, they are very meaningful. Our experience tells me that this is the case, even if a bystander doesn't agree with my idea. What does that mean? At that time, there was a strange interaction between mind and things, which was a kind of learning. Today, I know it has another purpose-it can be used by me, and 25 years later, it is an example of learning lessons.

Meaning has a truly mysterious essence, which appears at the connection point between inner reality and outer reality. Everything has information, such as trees, songs, and even garbage … but only when we open our consciousness can we receive this information. Tarot cards convey a lot of information because of their rich images and connections. More importantly, tarot cards convey meaning, because we sincerely hope to discover the deeper reality in our lives. By looking for meaning in this way, we look for truth and give it a chance to show it.

If there is some meaning in the explanation, how did it come from? I believe it comes from some part of ourselves, the awareness of the divine source. This is the unconscious face, it is more. It is like a wise man who knows us very well. It understands our needs and shows us the way forward. Some people call this wise man a soul, or a super-consciousness, or a higher self. I call it internal guidance, because this is its role in connecting tarot cards.

Each of us has an inner guide, just like a fountain of inner meaning. Your inner guidance is always with you because it is a part of you. You can't break this link, but you can ignore it. When you touch your tarot card, you are signaling your inner guidance, and you are opening your inner wisdom. This simple belief makes you realize that your inner guidance is always at your service.

We naturally rely on the wisdom of our inner guidance, but for some reason, we forget how to get it.

We believe that our consciousness replaces our inner guidance, but we forget to observe more deeply. Our conscious minds are clever, but unfortunately, they are not fully aware of teaching us to make appropriate choices every day.

When we operate through conscious thinking, we usually feel that events are imposed on us by accident. Life seems meaningless because we don't know who we are and what we want. When we know how to gain inner wisdom, we experience life in different ways. By linking our will with our inner goals, we have certainty and peace. Our road has become faster and happier, and we have seen more clearly how to combine the fragments of life to complete our life.

I use tarot because it is one of the best tools, and I find it easier to get the whisper of my inner guidance.

When I interpret tarot cards, my thoughts, images and feelings are all information from my inner guidance. How do I know there is information in it, not just my own imagination? I really don't know. I can only trust my experience and see what happens.

You don't really need tarot cards to convey your inner guidance. Tarot cards have the same function as du bois's magic feathers. In Disney movies, the elephant Dumbo can fly by himself, but he doesn't believe it. He pinned all his trust on a special feather. He believed that his father gave him the power to fly, but when the feather flew away, he found that the situation was different and he was forced to fly alone.

Simple process, presented in a simple way. In movies, we always see tarot cards being used in a dilapidated room or secret room. An old woman sat in the dark reading tarot cards for a nervous young girl. The old woman raised her wrinkled finger and dropped a death card. The girl drew back and was frightened by the possible bad luck.

The dark atmosphere is closely connected with tarot cards, even now. Some religions reject tarot cards, and scientific achievements believe that tarot cards are an irrational symbol and an old school that continues the uncivilized past. Now let's put these depressing pictures aside for a while and just think about what tarot cards are. A card with pictures. So the question becomes-what can we do with tarot cards?

The answer is related to the unconscious-the memory and consciousness in our hearts, but outside our daily life experience. Even if we ignore unconscious behavior most of the time, it still deeply affects everything we do. In Freud's works, he once emphasized the unconscious, irrational and primitive side, which he thought was the most unacceptable destination of our desires and longings. Jung, a psychologist of his time, emphasized the initiative and creativity of the subconscious. He tried to show that the unconscious has a collective element that touches the essence of the universe.

We may never know the completely unconscious side and its power, but there are ways to study its field. In order to study the unconscious, many techniques have been developed, such as psychotherapy, dream interpretation, visual imagination and meditation. Tarot cards are another tool to achieve this goal.