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Understanding Tarot Spread Illustrations: More Than Just Pretty Pictures

By Craig Malone

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The use of tarot cards is a very interesting dimension of the occult. Basically associated with the gypsies, this is an amazing portal through which you can catch a glimpse of your past, present or future as you per your desire. The tarot spread illustrations are not only vivid and eye catching, but also adept storytellers of bits and pieces of your life. For the beginner, interpreting what the tarot cards are saying can be a daunting task. Though you can find the meaning of each card easily on the Internet or with the help of books, a reading is more than just calling out what each card means.

Each detail of the tarot spread illustrations has a story to tell; each element projects the past, present or future with spectacular accuracy, provided you know how to read it. The question therefore, is how to learn to read these illustrations correctly. Since there is no best or preferred tarot card spread, this question is quite difficult to answer. Veteran psychics choose their spreads according to their feelings at the particular moment when they are requested for a reading. Some, develop expertise in one particular spread such as the Celtic Cross, and use it exclusively for all readings. The ability of you recognizing and interpreting the tarot cards correctly depends mainly on two major factors: (1) experience, and (2) intuition or psychic ability.

When you speak of experience, this is something you draw on as the years pass by. Every reading that you do, adds to the overall lesson because no two readings would ever mean the same. The tarot spread illustrations say a different tale every time you cast them as your attention would be drawn involuntarily to different aspects of the spread, as the case may be. With time, your tuning to your inner self would grow stronger allowing you to "feel" what the cards are trying to tell you. Many excellent psychics felt that in the beginning they were not attuned well enough to their sixth sense and therefore were unable to "see" the predictions accurately. The time that it takes to accept and draw upon these powers, depend from person to person. While for some it may be a short 2-3 year period, others take decades before they come into their elements.

The intuition is important because this is what actually tells the story, not the cards. The latter are just a means to an end. Anyone can lay a Celtic Cross spread and read out the meaning of each card. However, this is not the whole story; often, this would not even be the tip of the iceberg. The intuition is what makes the psychic understand the language of cards and translate it for you. The tarot spread illustrations is nothing but a fun game, without the sixth sense of the psychic. This is the hidden ingredient, which is able to draw the complete and accurate picture from a spread.

Nobody says it is easy to be a psychic; on the other hand, it is not too difficult either. If you have these two basic ingredients, nothing can stop you from becoming a successful psychic.

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