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As a lot of tarot card readers do I pull one tarot card and meditate on it early every morning. I have some personal meditations that I will be sharing at a later date. To start us off though I would like to share some wonderful meditations created for the Major Trumps by Bill Heidrick. Tarot Meditations 1975-76 by Bill Heidrick All Rights Reserved. These mediations may work best with a BOTA (Paul Foster Case) or Rider Pack (Waite) Tarot Deck. Fool Meditation 9/30/75 Adapted from "Understan… Continue

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Often, the suits are associated with one of the four classical elements, with a common set of associations being the following: Wands with fire, Cups with water, Swords with air, and Coins with earth.[citation needed] In other sets of associations, Fire is occasionally exchanged with air for the Swords suit. Other associations are also possible:

Tarot Card Suit
Wands, Staves, Rods, Batons
Pentacles or Coins
Cups or Chalices
Swords

Playing Card Suit
Wands, St… Continue

The Major Arcana (Trumps Major, Major Trumps) of the Tarot deck consists of 22 cards. The name Major Arcana is used only in esoteric practice. Game players using Tarot decks for playing call them Trumps and usually only show a Roman or Arabic numeral on each card, plus some decoration that is identical on all of them.

In esoteric sets, each Major Arcanum depicts a scene, mostly featuring a person or several people, with many symbolic elements. In many decks, each has a number (usually i… Continue