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What is Tarot?
In its simplest form, Tarot is the practice of using cards to interpret answers and guidance for life's questions. Much like a question that can be understood many ways, Tarot offers perspective through a spread of randomly drawn cards placed in sacred templates. It is one of many forms of divination: the art of channeling insight through divine energy. While divination carries a complex history, Tarot holds a uniquely gentle and accessible spirit all its own.
What is a Tarot Card Deck?
What is a Tarot Card Reading?
What is a Tarot Card Deck?
A Tarot deck is a set of 78 cards divided into two distinct groups. The first, the Major Arcana, contains 22 stand alone cards each with its own deep and layered meaning, connecting to the larger forces and patterns at work in a person's life. Sometimes called Triumph Cards, these are the heart of the deck. The Death card, for example, do
A Tarot deck is a set of 78 cards divided into two distinct groups. The first, the Major Arcana, contains 22 stand alone cards each with its own deep and layered meaning, connecting to the larger forces and patterns at work in a person's life. Sometimes called Triumph Cards, these are the heart of the deck. The Death card, for example, does not speak of an ending but of transformation and change.
The remaining 56 cards form the Minor Arcana, spread across four suits: Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. Each suit is numbered one through ten and includes a Page, Knight, Queen, and King. These cards tend to reflect the everyday moments and challenges of daily life.
The most widely recognized deck is the Rider Waite Smith deck, whose rich illustrations set the standard for nearly every contemporary deck that followed.
What is History of Tarot?
What is a Tarot Card Reading?
What is a Tarot Card Deck?
Tarot began not as a spiritual tool but as a game.
During the Renaissance, Italian merchants and artists added illustrated Triumph cards to standard playing decks, catching the attention of wealthy patrons who commissioned artists to create elaborate personal decks.
As the printing press made cards widely available, Tarot spread across Eu
Tarot began not as a spiritual tool but as a game.
During the Renaissance, Italian merchants and artists added illustrated Triumph cards to standard playing decks, catching the attention of wealthy patrons who commissioned artists to create elaborate personal decks.
As the printing press made cards widely available, Tarot spread across Europe and found its way into noble gatherings and salons.
The desire for deeper meaning grew alongside its popularity. In 1791, French occultist Jean Baptiste Alliette created the first deck designed specifically for divination.
A century later, Arthur Edward Waite and artist Pamela Coleman Smith produced the Rider Waite Smith deck, whose fully illustrated cards became the most recognized and influential Tarot deck in the world, shaping the visual language of Tarot as we know it today.
What is a Tarot Card Reading?
What is a Tarot Card Reading?
What is a Tarot Card Reading?
A Tarot card reading is a guided conversation between a reader and a guest, centered on a question, concern, or area of life the guest wishes to explore.
Once the subject of the reading is established, cards are drawn and interpreted together.
Every reader has their own method for selecting cards. Some invite the guest to choose, others d
A Tarot card reading is a guided conversation between a reader and a guest, centered on a question, concern, or area of life the guest wishes to explore.
Once the subject of the reading is established, cards are drawn and interpreted together.
Every reader has their own method for selecting cards. Some invite the guest to choose, others draw intuitively, and some work with cards that fall naturally during a shuffle.
Each card that surfaces brings its own energy and meaning, and the reader weaves these together to offer insight, perspective, and guidance.
Rather than offering fixed predictions, a reading opens a space for reflection, helping the guest see their situation from a new and often illuminating angle.
How Does Khris Conduct her Tarot Readings?
What makes Khris such a fantastic reader is that she conducts an eclectic tarot reading experience, combining the best of Tarot and Oracle into one practice. Tarot Card Readings with Khris may be conducted both in person and over the internet. A reading begins with the choosing a deck that speaks to you, and a discussion about the topic of the reading. The reading continues with the selection of cards, choosing multiple other decks and cards belonging to both Tarot and Oracle, and finding guidance in the chosen cards. This is but a fraction of the intuition and spiritual guidance Khris offers in these readings, and a tip of the iceberg of the enlightenment which follows.