In earlier articles, we provided correspondences between the Zodiac and some of the Major Arcana cards. But this isn’t the whole picture, it’s only a simplified version of a larger topic. If you’ve had experience working with the Golden Dawn, or have ever worked with a Thoth tradition deck, you’ll...
The Tarot and the Tree of Life Correspondences
If you’re familiar with the Golden Dawn, you’ll know that the Tarot is part of a greater esoteric system; one that beautifully weaves together astrology, tarot, and Kabbalah into a greater whole. We first see these ideas being used together in the 1800’s when Eliphas Levi published a book describing...
Tarot Elements: Correspondences and Working with Elemental Dignities
Within the Tarot, the minor arcana is composed of 4 suits, each with their own elemental correspondences. These elemental associations are great in giving you a general feeling about each of the minor arcana cards, while also acting as examples for how these elemental energies can appear in your daily...
Best Money Tarot Cards to Get in a Tarot Reading
While money doesn’t always mean happiness, what it does provide is a sense of security. While the tendency in spiritual circles is to discount the matters of the material world in favor of the spiritual world, it still makes a huge part of our everyday experience - for better or...
Best Love Tarot Cards to Get in a Tarot Reading
Love and relationships - it’s a classic question to pose to your tarot cards. After all, our relationships form a core part of our human experience. They help create who we are, and shape how we perceive and interact with the world.
How to Phrase Effective Tarot Card Questions and Get the Most From Your Tarot Reading
If it’s your first time getting a tarot reading (or doing one for yourself) one of the most influential aspects of a tarot reading happens before the reading even starts. Asking the right kind of questions can make your readings productive, illuminating and insightful - and can help steer you...
Tarot Court Card Elements and Zodiac Signs - Correspondences Infographic
If you’ve ever drawn a few Court Cards for your reading, and then felt completely dumbfounded by what they could represent, you’re not alone. They have a reputation for being notoriously hard to decipher. Luckily, developing systems for how these cards connect and relate to each other help greatly with...
Tarot Meaning Cheat Sheets: Infographics Plus Free Printable Resource
One of the major requests for content we’ve gotten is to develop tarot cheat sheets for you all to quickly reference when doing readings. And so, I’ve gone ahead and made one for you! Remember, these are just tarot keyword references - meaning that they don’t include the full meaning...
The Minor Arcana of the Tarot de Marseille: Numerology of Pip Cards
When first getting acquainted with tarot, you’ll most likely hear about the Rider Waite Smith as the standard tarot card deck to work with for beginners. And indeed, that is the most common deck in the English-speaking world that many artistic interpretations of the tarot seem to be based on,...
How to Create Your Own Tarot Spreads: A Step by Step Guide and Infographic
Once in a while, while reading for both yourself and others, you’ll come across questions that can’t be fully answered using any of of the spreads that you’ve worked with before. You may find closer matches within the many reference books and sites that you find online (including ours!) -...
Finding Your Tarot Significator: A Method of Understanding The Court Cards in Tarot
Have you ever found yourself looking through the court cards in a deck and being completely lost on how you can make sense of them? I mean, they’re all just people right? And you don’t really have much to go on besides their clothes and maybe the background in the...
How to Calculate Your Tarot Birth Card, Plus Short Birth Card Meanings: Infographic
I first came across tarot birth cards when I was part of a regular class with the folks at The Tarot School, a little weekly meet up hosted by the incredibly insightful Wald and Ruth-Ann Amberstone in Forest Hills. It’s been a long time since I’ve attended. I moved to Brooklyn...
Astrology Tarot Correspondences - Your Tarot Cards by Zodiac Signs (Infographic)
The Tarot was linked with Astrology first through the Golden Dawn, an esoteric order whose most prominent members included Aleister Crowley (who authored the Thoth deck) and Arther Edward Waite (of the Rider-Waite deck), both of whom were instrumental in establishing the traditions in tarot that we have today.
Crystals Tarot and Herbal Correspondence Tables - Chart and Infographic
The universe is a messy place. Being filled with countless wonders, we seek to understand them all, and as we do so, we realize that human nature finds it natural to categorize things in ways that seem meaningful to us. We look through to the world with the lens that...