The meaning of the High Priestess card in a Tarot reading

The Moon

Trust your intuition, it doesnโ€™t let you down. Your first thought/feeling is the right one. Recognise patterns that have sabotaged you in the past and cut them off. Pay attention to hidden meanings in dreams,

The High Priestess represents the archetype of inner truth, but because this truth is unconscious, inexpressible, she can maintain it only through total passivity. This situation shows itself in life in numerous ways. We all carry within us a dim sense of who we are, of a genuine self never seen by other people and impossible to explain. Those who throw themselves into competition, careers, responsibilities, without working at the same time to increase self-knowledge, often discover at some point that they have lost the sense of who they are, and what they once wanted in life. Donโ€™t lose touch with who you are.

The High Priestess represents all these qualities: darkness, mystery, psychic forces, the power of the moon to stir the unconscious, passivity, and the wisdom gained from it. This wisdom cannot be expressed in rational terms; to try to do so would be to immediately limit, narrow, and falsify it. Most people at sometime have felt they understood something in such a deep way that they could never manage to explain it.

The High Priestess signifies inner wisdom at its deepest level

It often appears to indicate silence and stillness of some kind, stating that in this situation the answers are best found in the quietest, most peaceful way. Perhaps this takes the form of simply listening. Listening to another person, listening to oneโ€™s inner voice, listening to oneโ€™s intuition or instinct, listening to silence โ€ฆ Sometimes it takes the form of meditation and reflection, or any practice and process by which the mind is stilled and reaches a zone of silence.

The High Priestess indicates that only when the mind is quiet and free from the busy humdrum of the situation will answers and a solution come. However, it also suggests that you may already know the answer to your question: you have only to listen and it will be revealed.

Sometimes the High Priestess appears to indicate a seekerโ€™s quest for wisdom, psychic ability, spiritual understanding, or a desire to find their own truth. It often represents an initiate or an initiation into a religion, mystery tradition, or spiritual path, but one that focuses on allowing its initiates to find their own answers by being given the keys to doorways rather than simply being handed the answers straight away.

This card concerns spiritual or mystical matters, then you should be prepared for a period of descent into dark silenceโ€”not an underworld of pain and inner demons, but simply an underworld of pregnant silence. For those of us living in the modern Western world, sometimes silence is the hardest thing for us to practice.

Not everything needs to be spoken, the High Priestess advises, and often secrets are secrets for a reason: not because they should be hoarded and kept in a process of one-upmanship, but because telling others the answers steal from them the right to undergo the same initiatory journey of discovering them for themselves.


The meaning of the Empress card in a Tarot reading

Venus

The Empress says you need to trust your feelings more and suggests domestic harmony, marriage, and maternity.

The Empress represents living life to the full, in an uncomplicated way. Contentment and stability with home life and understanding from personal experiences.

Most often she indicates that a creative process will be started or finished, or that you are undergoing the process currently.

The Empress also asks you how much effort you are willing to put into something and reminds you that, most of the time, the act of creation can be painful and can require dedication.

This card isnโ€™t about duty or responsibility, although it might involve them. It also says that anything that you are currently undertaking will undergo a great period of growth.

Keywords: Fruitfulness of action, Beauty, personal development, and progress.

Love/relationships: A new partner could be coming into your life if not in a good relationship, desire to care for someone special, wanting to express feelings on a deeper level.


The meaning of the World card in a Tarot reading

Saturn

This wonderful card most often signifies the completion and conclusion of a very important path, journey, or project, which will leave you in a position of having reached a landmark or milestone, yet also being given the opportunity to move on to something new.

You will be going through a process of integration, outwardly as well as inwardly. Often, the World reminds you that as you complete this journey, a new one will be offered to you.

You cannot cling to your success and rest on your laurels; you must move forward once more. We can never know everything, and there is always much more out there for us to learn and to be. Although achievement and completion are indicated here, it is not the end.

The World suggests that this is going to be a time of overcoming obstacles to achieve victory, winning out in something, and being recognized as a paragon of excellence in oneโ€™s field.  However, you should be reminded that even though you have completed something and reached the final stages, a new journey will always await you, with new lessons to learn, and new opportunities.

There are many other cards in the tarot that indicate completion and conclusion. A successful ending to a project, goal, or path. However, the World is different: this isnโ€™t just the ending of a short-term project or the reaching of an everyday goalโ€”this is a life-changing conclusion. It is so important that the World can often signify the completion of your lifeโ€™s work (or one of them!), the conclusion of all the lessons that you have been learning and processing over many years.

On a more mundane level, the World brings with it opportunities to gain great wisdom and understanding, as well as an indication of the mundane world that you surround yourself with.

It suggests that you possess all the elements required to create something big and important or life changing. You need to draw together elements from a wide variety of sources to create this, such as pulling together very different people in a work situation or on a project to create something that is greater because of their differences and varied approaches.

It might also be found in drawing on very different historical or textual sources during research or while seeking inspiration and finding the common thread that ties them together. Use all of your experience and knowledge.

Key words: Completion, Perfection, synthesis, harmony, attainment, assured success.

Love/Relationships: Relationship has come to a point of completion and fulfillment, Happiness, the relationship contains the potential and energy that both people wish for.

Finance/Career: Recognition, reward, acclaim, travel, successful completion of a project or plan.


The meaning of the Hanged Man card in a Tarot reading

Neptune

Delayโ€™s is the key word; or Stuck, not knowing where you should be heading. Feeling out of sorts and not really beingable to put your finger on what is wrong. This is temporary. Things are pretty much out of your hands at the moment and things are happening behind the scenes at the moment. Things will be revealed to you as you need to know them. There is a greater hand than yours steering your course at the moment. Let it be. In time you will understand why you had the experiences you had. When nothing seems to be working, surrender for the time being and let it resolve itself.

Often The Hanged Man indicates a time of standstill and suspension of activity, in which you may find that it is seemingly impossible to move forward, make progress, or achieve the breakthrough you need. However, the Hanged Man is not bound or tied down, but rather in a state of stillness for a good reason. It may be that you would not benefit as much as you think you would from action or movement forward at this time; you must take the time to be still and surrender yourself to the current process or moment, rather than look to the one that may be coming.

Sometimes the Hanged Man points to a time of spiritual darkness for you, feelings of abandonment and isolation on your path or journey. It may feel like a time of limbo, as if nothing is happening. However, if you learn to not struggle against this experience, but instead surrender yourself to the process, you will find spiritual wisdom and a deeper understanding of yourself. If you are going through changes, difficulties, or worries, theHanged Man simply tells you to let go and give in. It will do them more harm to fight, and you should instead become passive, receptive participant rather than trying to direct the changes or take any action.

In relation to projects, the Hanged Man sometimes advises a brief pause in work so that you may reflect on your current progress and achievements to date and take the time to make better plans. The main positive aspect of the Hanged Manโ€™s suspension and limbo is that it gives you plenty of time to think.

This card can sometimes indicate a change of perspective, seeing the issue from a different point of view, and turning everything on its head. In a relationship, it can break or a temporary separation so that both partners can assess what they want from each other and the relationship.

With regard to family matters or an issue you care deeply about, the Hanged Man talks about sacrifice for the higher good, particularly self-sacrifice in some way for the benefit of others. In this sacrifice you will find peace, serenity, and inner harmony.

Keywords: Spiritual limbo, letting go, surrender, suspension, pause, thinking, reflecting, sacrifice, descent, Dark Night of the Soul, martyrdom, inner harmony, serenity, giving up, inaction, standstill.

Love/Relationships: Powerless to change a relationship that has gone stagnant or lost itโ€™s sparkle, You canโ€™t have the one you want at the moment, Waiting to see how a love will react and what they will do.


The meaning of the The Tower card in a Tarot reading

XVX The Tower

Mars

Expect the Unexpected. Chaos, bizarre events and destruction. Remain calm in the face of unexpected changes and listen to the inner force that reassures you everything is going to be alright.

The Tower represents a structure of false or outgrown values. Your attitude to life no longer supports you and needs to be surrendered so that you can grow. This can come in the form of a flash of enlightenment, allowing a new understanding of life. The Tower brings the change you longed for but feared. This change can be sudden and sometimes violent, particularly when you resist it. Often your subconscious mind calls for this change to free you from the restrictions around you, and your attitude to the change will determine whether it is exciting or painful. By handling problems in a grounded and realistic manner the Tower need not occur. The Universe does not allow people to live far from their spiritual path forever. When we become stuck and cannot free ourselves peacefully, life does whatever is necessary to free us.

When The Tower appears, itโ€™s time for change. It is too late to prepare for change, or how you would like to change, but simply a time to release the old. For you to move on, you must accept that some things have been and will be lost, and that inevitably certain elements of your life must be let go before they can move on.

Even though the process of destruction is painful and difficult for you to undergo once you have picked up the pieces (or others have picked up the pieces for you!) You are liberated and freed from a situation or relationship that was negative or holding you back. Sometimes the Tower appears when you feel trapped or unable to move forward because of outside obstacles, and the Towerโ€™s destruction clears the way for you. Unfortunately, it clears everything else out also.

When you surrender to the forces of the Tower card you will see a resurrection in your affairs and improved conditions, but on a much stronger, firmer foundation. Unexpected luck or good fortune. New opportunities appear or success and recognition for your talents. If you refuse to accept this, you will be stuck reliving the destruction over and over, but once you let go of what was lost, you are free.

Even though the process of destruction is painful and difficult for you to undergo, once you have picked up the pieces (or others have picked up the pieces for you!) You are liberated and freed from a situation or relationship that was negative or holding you back. Sometimes the Tower appears when you feel trapped or unable to move forward because of outside obstacles, and the Towerโ€™s destruction clears the way for you. Unfortunately, it clears everything else out also.

Love/Relationships: Relationship needing to change, addressing problems in your relationship, refusing to change could end the relationship.

Finance/Career: Financial loss and disruption such as the loss of a business or investment, unforeseen problems, forced change in your career or direction,

An honest look at yourself, responsible where you are now by your past actions, accept the repercussions. Define your goals again before you set off.


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The meaning of the Emperor in a Tarot reading

IV The Emperor
Aries _ Mars

The card embodies masculine energy, leadership, and the enforcement of laws and tradition, a contrast to the more nurturing qualities of The Empress card.

There is no Freedom without Responsibility. The Emperor represents success through self-discipline.

The Emperor is a powerful and potent force in your life. He often appears to indicate a time of action and manifestation, a time when you are required to assume a role of responsibility or power, a time to ground your ideas and dreams into concrete reality.

It may also suggest a need in your life for more stability, order, and control in response to uncertainty and difficulty.

If you are finding it difficult to bring some project to completion or to make your life circumstances easier, the Emperor advises that you need to take control of the situation and take full responsibility yourself for it.

The Emperor often represents a stable time of certainty and the achievement of ambitions. He can appear in work- and career-related readings to indicate a boss or somebody in power who can either help or hinder you. It can also indicate father figure or yourself as a father or in a fatherly role to another person, and indicates the ways in which you rule, give guidance, and demonstrate leadership.

When the Emperor appears, he can also advise you, that you need to take a leading role in a project, rather than being a follower. In other situations, he may suggest that the best approach to the situation is to practice careful self-control, rather than seeking to control others. True power, the Emperor says, does not lie in having power over others but in recognizing the power within oneself.

This card points to ambition, plans for achievements, and great heights of triumph, showing a person who is ready to fight for their goal and take every action possible to make it happen. There is no room for waiting with the Emperor, no room for simply considering something or letting another person take action: there is only room for you to take action, and to do so soon.

Yet there is a structure and order to the Emperor that may not sit well with some, since he brings with him the rules and laws that create order. As such, this card may advise that you follow existing rules and guidelines rather than trying to find a way around them.

Keywords: Domination, authority, accomplishment, wisdom, stability.

Love/Relationships: You and a loved one or partner will unite and discuss plans for the future. The desire to take charge of a relationship.

Finance/Career: Force and strength of will needed to attain goals, determination will lead to success after victory over obstacles.


The meaning of the Sun card in a Tarot reading

XIX The Sun

Leo

Contentment, energy, achievement, new beginning, material blessings, The Sun card brings a blaze of energy and warmth that is always welcome. It radiates joy and enthusiasm, happiness, and optimism, making everything else a little brighter, no matter how dark everything may seem.

When the rays of the Sun touch your life, you can expect light to be shed on the truth, opportunities to pour forth, and vitality to be renewed.  It indicates that the future that awaits you is bright and filled with happiness. You will be walking a path of truth and awareness, being given the opportunity to make conscious and fully aware decisions, and to act with clarity in your life.

The Sun brings a general atmosphere of joy, happiness, and brilliance that is coming in your future. Sometimes the Sun points to you standing out from the crowd, your light shining so brightly that it is impossible for others to ignore you. You are a force to be reckoned with, and somebody who is likely to have or gain great reputation and fame.

If you are having a difficult time now, the Sun advises you that optimism will get you further than you think. Look on the bright side, turn your face toward the truth, and keep moving.

Most of the time the Sun points to immense self-confidence and confidence that you have in your work, skills, knowledge, or talents. It also indicates that you feel intense happiness in your life and work.

Whatever you were hoping for will come to pass. It brings good health, wellness and wellbeing, positive outlooks, and healthy friendships. There will also be some excitement and good luck thrown into the mix.

In situations where you feel stuck, the Sun provides an opportunity of seeing the way forward, and anything unclear will become clear in the near future. It also bodes well if you are studying, since it indicates all forms of clarity, truth, and wisdom.

On a spiritual level, the Sun can sometimes suggest a mystical experience of unity, or an affinity with light and forces of goodness, with you wanting to bring light to others with their optimism and joy.

Keywords: Confidence, enthusiasm, optimism, happiness, joy, enlightenment, illumination, origin and source, renewal, consciousness, awareness, well-being, luck, positivity, success, vitality, radiance, brightness, enthusiasm.

Love/relationships: Spontaneous energy, warm relationship with potential for future success. Spontaneous loving relationship, harmony and balance, successful future, trust, openness, marriage.


Meaning of the Moon tarot card in a tarot reading

XVIII The Moon

Pisces

The Moon card has many faces. It indicates a reflection of the truth in your life that is not complete or distorted in some way. It may point to something being hidden from you or the truth being misrepresented. However, there is a seed of truth present, which you should be able to access if you are astute and perceptive, although sometimes it can be difficult to find that truth hidden beneath many layers of distortion.

The Moon may also represent another perspective, a situation that you may not have considered, or which is not seen as a traditional approach. There are two sides to every coin, and the Moon is the side that lands face down. Sometimes this card can point to secrets. Secrets you have, secrets being kept from you. There is always a chance secrets will be found out. Remember The Moon is a card of Illusion; you will know the truth by the way it feels.

It can also represent secrecy in emotions, with one person in the relationship hiding their true feelings from their partner, for one reason or another. This could be because the partner feels as though their emotions are too confusing, deep, or personal to be able to share with another, or it could be because they fear the reaction of the other person should they share them.

The Moon can often relate to fears that you have, particularly fears related to, or manifesting in, your emotional relationships. Thus, this card might indicate something from your subconscious influencing your choices perhaps more than it should, and probably without you fully realizing the extent to which this aspect of yourself in is control.

It suggests that fear is the driving force for you at this time; you must seek out the hidden side of yourself which your fears lie so that you might shed light on them and learn the truth. The only way out of fear is through it in this case, and the pathway of the Moon is, unfortunately, the pathway through fear also.

This card can also raise issues concerning your shadow self and your primal nature, as well as all the deep-seated and intense emotions that you have. Further, it hints at the ebbs and flows of your life, pointing to recurring waves of a theme or challenge, opportunity or feeling, which rises on a regular basis and then recedes, just like the tide.

On a spiritual level, the Moon points to psychic ability and being able to listen to intuition. It also indicates an interest in witchcraft or Wicca, the divine feminine, womenโ€™s mysteries, psychic healing, scrying, visions, dream work, and magic.

Finance/Career: May feel disillusioned by the actions of others, check all dealings in business, flush out the facts. Feeling underpaid or undervalued in a career or job prospect.

Love/Relationships: A relationship fails to live up to expectations, an emotional time, secrecy around you, unfulfilled desires and hopes in a relationship.


The meaning of the Hermit card in a Tarot reading

IX The Hermit

Virgo

The Hermit can often indicate a great spiritual awakening, or a long process of enlightenment or illumination taking place in your life. It indicates you are turning inward and looking toward a deeper part of your life and yourself or embarking on a spiritual journey of some kind.

It can suggest either that you already have a lot of experience or wisdom on a spiritual level, which you are now able to use to help others, or that you are the one in need of help from a more experienced person. Hermit can therefore indicate acts of compassion toward others, as well as an inner light that has that has driven you this far, and which you now wish to share with the world The Hermit is every desire to bring inner wisdom and experience into outer reality and shine oneโ€™s light for others to see.

This card often advises you to remove yourself from a situation to see things more clearly. Alternately, you may need to take the โ€œhigh roadโ€ in a situation and rise above it.

The Hermit may recommend that you take some time to be alone rather than surrounding yourself with others. This might indicate a retreat of some kind, a meditation practice, a holiday, or a short trip alone. It can even be something as mundane as a walk in the park. It is time for you to undergo some soul searching in order for your life to progress.

You maybe currently in a time of barrenness, and this soul searching and turning inward will give you the answers you seek, which will help fuel your creativity and projects.

The Hermit suggests that the endeavour you are currently undertaking or hoping to begin is best done alone, without too much help (and interference!) from others.

Love/Relationships: Relationship-wise, if single, this card indicates that you will not find a relationship for quite a while, most likely because you have other things to do alone first. Maybe you are simply not ready for a relationship or need the time alone to know yourself better.

Finance/Career: In a work or business context, it can point to working from home, or you running your own business based on your experience and wisdom.


Meaning of the Devil card in a Tarot reading

XV The Devil

Capricorn

Mind games, manipulation and emotional blackmail. The Devil is rarely a positive card, but it does have a few redeeming qualities. Letโ€™s start with the good aspects first.

Sometimes it can represent your ambition and desire for greatness, as well as you desire to move on from one achievement to the next, never stopping or pausing for breath. One thingโ€™s for certain: you donโ€™t rest on your laurels!

This card can indicate a time of great desire and action in your life, a lust for life, and a willingness to take risks and enjoy life to the fullest, which will serve to further your goals and improve your circumstances. You want to make the most of life while you can and while you have the means and desire to.

In a relationship reading, the Devil, can sometimes indicate that the physical side of the relationship is wonderfulโ€”the sex is great, and the mundane circumstances are working very well for the couple.

On a spiritual level, the Devil can represent the descent of spirit into matter, a focus on Earth-based religions, a reverence for the life force.

However, most of the Devilโ€™s reasons for appearing are negative. It indicates that you are, or will be, in a situation in which you are trapped or imprisoned, one you are finding it difficult to get out of. Sometimes it even suggests that you do not know you are trapped at all, as you have been duped or deceived into thinking you are free. This card can indicate your  ignorance in a matter, or your willingness to stand by whilst acts that would harm yourselves and/or others are perpetrated. You may also be the perpetrator yourself.

This card sometimes points to an addiction of some kind, such as alcoholism or drug abuse, as well as the most decadent (or luxurious) things taken to an extreme The Devil speaks of overdoing it: too much food, too much wine, too much exercise, for instance. It can indicate obesity, unhealthy habits, and an unwillingness to break out of such cycles.

Usually, the Devil points toward your inner demonsโ€”your fears, bad habits, or any secrets and shame you are hiding from yourself and others. This may also relate to you having feelings of entitlement or dominance over others, or, alternatively, feelings of powerlessness. Often it says that you have handed over your power to another person or agency so that you donโ€™t have to take responsibility for your actions, thoughts, or failures.

This card can indicate mind games, either on your part or which you are a victim of. It can also point to you feeling like a slave to a certain aspect of your life, such as a job, or to another person. It sometimes indicates a co-dependent relationship, an unhealthy one, or one built solely on one person being in control of the other.

Keywords: Vice, temptation, ignorance, decadence, bondage, lust, urges, inner demons, chains, entrapment, imprisonment, oaths, contracts, promises, attachment, dominance, slavery, habits, addiction, obsession, materialism, hedonism, desire, sexuality, ambition

Love/Relationships: Attempts at a reunion fail, jealousy and obsessive behaviour, sexual attraction main factor in relationship could be blinding your ability to make decisions.

Finance/Career: Working hard for little gain, major financial loss, bad investments. Can also indicate a couple that work together to create things, each one using their own set of skills toward the goal. It represents a tremendously creative partnership, so that there is much more to the relationship than romance and love.


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