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How to Read Tarot with Playing Cards in the Celtic cross Formation
Learning how to read tarot with playing cards in the Celtic cross formation is not difficult. As a matter of fact, regular playing cards were the original cards used by cartomancers well in advance of the use of the tarot decks currently available. Generally speaking, the clubs represent the wands, the diamonds stand for the coins, the hearts symbolize the cups and the spades are the swords. It may take a little getting used to, but once you succeed in making the connection between the tarot's symbolism and the graphics on a pack of regular playing cards, you are halfway there.
There is a plethora of methodologies that various cartomancers swear by. Some remove the cards with values lower than five, while others keep them in the deck. Most can agree on keeping the joker in the deck as a decided wildcard and instead of focusing solely on the face or number of the suit that is being turned over, the reader will see the suit against the backdrop of its occult element. To this end, wands are the power that comes from the element of fire while diamonds are the tangible which is arrived at via the Earth itself. Swords are the intellect and as a suit they denote the element of air and lastly cups are the water element and thus stand for the emotions.
The first card of the Celtic cross symbolizes that which is the past. It may be a recent past or it may be a more comprehensive understanding of the term. Next come three cards that symbolize that which rules the individual, that which makes them act, and that which they would rarely if ever consider even being part of their character. It is interesting to note that the last choice is often quite surprising since it is generally not that which the querent would have guessed. Another single card denotes the future. Once again, the scope of the term is highly subjective and it may be a short term future or a long term approach.
As you learn to read tarot with playing cards, special care must be taken with the defining modifiers of the future. The result of the situation and the hopes and fears cards do not always appear in harmony and more often than not you might find a direct call to action difficult to discern. This is where the external and internal influence cards come in handy which are laid down next. In conjunction they will make clear that which must be done and also that which is preventing action from taking place.
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