Tarot Readings

Tarot Cards are used by people from all walks of life to gain insight and an understanding of what is happening in their lives. The Tarot Card deck contains 78 cards that are divided into two main groups. The 22 Major Arcana cards and the 56 Minor Arcana cards. The Major Arcana cards depict the greater events in our lives, while the Minor or Lesser Arcana cards reveal the every day aspects of our lives. There are many different Tarot card decks and each show us the experiences we have had in our past, what's happening in our present day lives and what could happen at any time in our future.

The origin of the Tarot Cards is thought to have been created in Egypt from "The Book Of Thoth". Thoth was the Egyptian Mercury and is said to have been one of the early kings. The Gypsies and the Egyptians were the most likely to have introduced the Tarot Cards to Europe. It is generally accepted that the Tarot Cards emerged in the latter half of the 14th century as a card game. In the 15th century the cards became more popular because of numerous printing techniques, such as woodcuts, copper engravings and stencils. And by the 16th century, a modified Tarot Card deck called The Tarot Of Marseilles gained common usage throughout Europe.

You will be amazed at how close Tarot Readings touch the issues pertaining to the important aspects of your life. In the simplest of terms, Tarot cards are a means of predicting events or gaining insight into our spiritual and material worlds. They are used as a method of predicting the future and/or as meditational aides. The history and origins of the Tarot are not definitively known and are a source of much speculation. Some decks display a multitude of beautiful artwork and each deck has 3 basic principles in common:

1. Each deck is illustrated with images that symbolically depict experiences that we've all had, or could have, at one time or another.

2. Each deck is divided into two main sections: the 22 Major Arcana cards, and the 56 Minor Arcana cards. The Minor Arcana are further divided into the Court Arcana and numbered cards.

3. Each deck contains four suits within the Minor Arcana: Wands (also known as Staffs or Batons,) Cups (also known as Bowls,) Swords, and Pentacles (also known as Coins or Disks.)

Symbolically, the Major Arcana illustrate the greater events within a lifetime, and the Minor Arcana illustrate smaller, everyday, mundane events. The images on the cards display a story, both by themselves, and as a whole. It is this imagery, and the way each person responds uniquely to it, that makes the Tarot an effective tool of self discovery.

A spread is simply a method of laying out a prescribed number of cards in a specific formation. Nancy uses the "Celtic Cross" and "Fan" spreads. She created the Fan Spread herself and finds this particular spread more in depth. Each position within a spread defines a meaning in relation to the type of spread being dealt. While Nancy is speaking with you, she will shuffle and deal and then interpret their meaning. Each card is interpreted by it's individual symbolism in combination with it's symbolic position within the spread, in relation to the cards surrounding it, and in relation to the question you are asking. Please keep in mind, your questions are to be kept to yourself and not revealed to Nancy unless she did not answer your question.

There are specific meanings associated with each card in a Tarot deck, but these meanings are secondary to the unique interpretations that Nancy discovers within the cards. The wish to know what the future holds is a universal one and the search for your answers, and the best method to obtain them, has brought you here to Nancy and her unique abilities.

Here are examples of universal cards known as the "Ryder-Waite Deck" to give you an idea of the pictures and different meanings behind each suite of the deck. Keep in mind that Nancy has many different decks that she reads and interprets.