The Tarot:
Major Arcana
Action
Beginning
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Major
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MinorArcana Cups
MinorArcana Swords
MinorArcana Coins
MinorArcana Wands
0 - The Fool:
Naivety
General
The Fool is the child in you and stands for wonder, receptivity, naivety and a spirited carelessness. He stands for the chaos from which everything new arises and for carefree openness, free from prejudice. The Fool is the unconcerned, full of innocence and purity and is still completely blank. When The Fool appears, you often enter a new field of life with amazement and without expectations. He can also point to idiotic, miraculous and special events or irresponsible behavior. The Fool points to innovative experiences that usually have chaotic tendencies but which, even if you fall, pose no real danger. The Fool's power lies in trusting your instincts, which protects you from the greatest dangers. Driven by curiosity can then lead your way to higher goals that are not yet seen.
Work
In your work, The Fool indicates that you are at the beginning of a new assignment or that you are entering new fields of activity. You do this without prior knowledge but with great curiosity to learn. You are also prepared to be open to everything and to familiarize yourself with the new tasks without reservation.
Love
In relationships, the Fool is best known for his lively, cheerful side. Here too he can indicate irresponsible behavior, but usually it is a reference to a joyful, uncomplicated and carefree togetherness and playful adventures.
To ask
Do I ever do something foolish or spontaneous?
Where has the child in me gone?
Am I carefree and unconcerned?
Am I open to chaos to start new things from there?
1 - The Wizard:
Skill
General
The Magician stands for self-awareness, cleverness, conscious and active action, impulsiveness and taking initiatives. The Magician has the power and skill to set things in motion and make them happen. He faces problems that will be overcome and challenges that will be brought to a successful conclusion. He is willing to take on a task and go deep into it. The Magician has a great intuition, harmony between mind and feeling, the conscious and the unconscious and therefore has the special ability to influence.
Work
In your work, The Magician indicates that you are able to take initiative. You will become aware of your ability to influence and you will use this energy in a targeted manner. This can lead to financial success, you can move up the ladder or bring difficult or unpleasant things to a successful conclusion. In addition, the Magician indicates that you get a better overall picture of the whole.
Love
In relationships, the Magician points to a period of great attraction. The Mage's creative and creative powers help overcome inhibitions and other difficulties. The Magician has an awareness of the power of unity and the interaction between both parties, which is very important in a good relationship.
To ask
What task do I still have to learn?
Is it now time for me to show initiative?
Do I have the strength for this?
2 - The Witch:
Intuition
General
The Witch represents your unconscious powers, your intuition, sensitivity, a deep-seated certainty and confidence in life. The High Priestess is the key to the hidden truth that the logical mind cannot comprehend. Qualities associated with this card include patience, understanding, consideration, kindness, and forgiveness. The Witch , with patience, is open to new impulses. When making decisions, it is important that you allow yourself to be guided by your inner voice. The Witch , along with the The Druid and The Star, is one of the three protective cards of the Tarot that provides favorable prospects for the course of an event.
Work
In your work, The Witch indicates that what you do has to do with the subject of this card. This can be, for example, in the esoteric or therapeutic field. Also, The Witch can show you that you should take this attitude toward your work: patiently and with a receptive mind, and be guided by your inner voice.
Love
In relationships, The Witch represents understanding, deep affection, intimacy and soul mate. There is also a strong sensitivity and the certainty that an invisible bond connects you with your partner. As you wait patiently, you know there are hidden forces at work. When you live alone you are intensely satisfied with this lifestyle or you wait patiently and are open to a new encounter where you listen to your inner voice and let yourself be forced to nothing.
To ask
Dare I let things take their course?
Do I have the patience and strength to wait?
Am I guided by my inner voice?
3 - The Mother:
Fertile soil
General
The Mother is the natural force that creates new life again and again. It stands for growth and fertility on a physical level, for artistic creativity on an emotional level and for a multitude of ideas and ingenuity on the level of your mind. The Mother has a creative ability to create something new from impulses. It is the source of all life and therefore symbolizes the power of nature, vibrancy, fertility, growth and the birth of something new. This can sometimes cause shooting pains, but the change announced by the Empress is usually an improvement.
Work
In your work, The Mother indicates a phase in which great forces are released such as: creativity, surprising ideas, the will to change, growth, innovations, vitality. The Mother can also indicate here that you must adapt yourself to changes. It could be that there is something completely new that takes you out of the rut. The Mother can also indicate the start of a new position.
Love
In relationships, The Mother stands for liveliness and growth and points to new, usually joyful developments. Furthermore, it may represent a phase of maternal love or the beginning of a new relationship that has yet to grow. In an existing relationship, The Mother takes care of any form of change, renewal or growth in the sense of family.
To ask
Do I live in harmony with nature?
Am I making use of my fertile soil?
Am I grateful and enjoying my life?
Do I ever look around to really appreciate everything?
4 - The Father:
Structure
General
The Father has a realistic view of life and with his mind he controls his emotions. It stands for desire for stability and security, order and sobriety, discipline and responsibility and the capacity to direct our energies. The Father brings structure to your life. The Father still wants to lapse into an exaggeration of this. This then manifests itself in the form of rigidity, perfectionism, lust for power and iron discipline.
Work
In your work, The Father stands for clear, austere concepts, steadfastness and determination. He has a sense of reality and a sober practical approach. The success of his plans depends entirely on his own discipline. It is also possible that The Father represents plans that are now starting to take shape and can be realized, because The Father is someone who hits nails with heads.
Love
In relationships, The Father represents a period in which relationships are reliable and durable, or a time in which all illusions disappear. He indicates that relationships take shape. The Father also points out the danger that you want to have as much certainty as possible in the relationship, as a result of which it can become too restrictive or too rigid.
To ask
How much structure do I have in my life?
Am I not too rigid and static?
Do I want too much certainty?
Am I not pushing my feelings too much into the background?
5 - The Druïd:
To trust
General
The Druid, also known as Hierophant, represents a deep sense of faith and strength in trust. This is about your self-confidence and confidence in the deeper meaning of your personal life. This also gives you confidence in the future, ethics and your personal intentions, which come from moral values. You are concerned with questions about meaning and values and you are open to religious experiences. The card increases the moral ability to judge good and bad. The Druid, along with The Witch and The Star, is one of the three protective cards of the Tarot that provides favorable prospects for the course of an event.
Work
In your work, the The Druid shows you that you are concerned with fundamental issues and meaningful questions that go far beyond everyday themes. The Druid represents the search for deeper contents, fulfilling tasks and an inner calling. The challenge of the High Priest is to stay true to moral values in doing business and not be tempted into impure matters.
Love
In relationships, The Druid points out that you are in a phase where trust in and affection for each other is growing. Ideals you have in relationships become stronger. It is important to you that your way of acting is based on moral values and personal virtues. Possibly this card represents your wish to get married or to continue through life together.
To ask
What are my moral values in life?
Do I have an eye for the deeper meaning of what is happening now?
Do I also have faith if I can't see (over) everything?
Do I believe in what I'm doing?
6 - The Lovers:
Choice of the heart
General
The Lovers represents a great love experience. The card also implies that the choice for this step is accompanied by a necessary decision. It's saying yes to love wholeheartedly. Only that step leads to the overwhelming experience that The Lovers stands for. The card can also indicate a decision that has nothing to do with love. Then The Lovers means that we must make this decision with all our hearts, without leaving other alternatives open. The great unconditional Yes!
Work
In your work, The Lovers indicates that you will have to make a clear choice, without reservation. You have to come to a position. You will have to take all the facts into account and weigh them up. The choice you make determines what happens next and in which direction you go. This position you choose may be related to a new job, new field of work, or moving in a different direction in your career. The Lovers can also indicate that you are saying yes to your current job.
Love
In relationships, The Lovers stands for a great love that touches you deeply and fulfills you. This can be a new relationship or you can find great happiness in your current relationship. The Lovers indicates that you can have blissful experiences. This is possible if you stop with duality and all kinds of alternatives that you feel the best is yet to come. You can then say “yes” wholeheartedly to that one other person and start experiencing the blissful experiences. Everyone dreams of taking this step with the ideal partner. It is therefore important to recognize that the ideal partner does not exist and that great happiness may be present in our current partner.
To ask
Did I make the choice from my heart?
What do I have to say a resounding yes to?
Can I love someone completely for better or for worse?
Do I dare to make a binding decision?
7 - The Chariot:
Happy departure
General
The Chariot represents a major leap forward that is
taken with great force. The card stands for freedom, ambition and assertiveness. He indicates that you detach yourself from your familiar surroundings and go your own way. Your self-awareness grows and you free yourself from adopted beliefs. Leaving is a good feeling. The jump creates an entrepreneurial spirit and a willingness to take risks. The Chariot represents both skill (acting) and inexperience (entering the new). You have to be careful not to overestimate your powers, you don't have balance yet. You can't be too confident and act euphoric. It is important to recognize in time that you still have a lot to learn.
Work
In your work, The Chariot indicates that you are making or have already taken a major step forward. This can also be a step towards independence. The card represents the pursuit of success, great perseverance, optimistic start to a new career or taking on more extensive tasks and responsibility. You already have some experience and are excited to start the new tasks. The card warns here that you have to be careful not to be too confident because you still have a lot to learn.
Love
In relationships, the Chariot can indicate the beginning of a new relationship. At the start of a new relationship, the old familiar environment is left behind with a somewhat too easy attitude. There can also be a breath of fresh air in an existing relationship. This ensures that routine and habituation is given new creative life.
To ask
What makes me excited?
What contradictions do I have to overcome?
What should I keep in mind if I'm heading for my target at full speed?
Am I willing to take a giant leap forward?
8 - Strength:
Passion
General
The secret of Strength is based on a deep inner harmony. This card has qualities such as courage, lust for life, zest for life and passion. Strength makes it clear that it cannot be the intention to hide your instincts and deepest desires behind a mask. You have to accept them and learn to use them properly.
Work
In your work, you can devote yourself passionately to your tasks. This phase consists of creative power and great motivation. There is great energy and you dedicate yourself to your tasks with true passion. The vitality in you provides courage and entrepreneurial spirit. This allows you to fully commit yourself to what you want to achieve.
Love
In relationships, Strength is best known for its passionate side. It therefore stands for relationships that are very lively and fiery, often also have dramatic incidents, but do not turn out negatively. The passionate side of the card comes out strongly here. Relationships in this way are a source of strength that gives you a lot of energy.
To ask
Do I love the lion in me?
Do I sometimes give free rein to my passion or do I always keep it under control?
Do I dare to let go of myself and live it all out?
Where is my fire?
9 - The Hermit:
Wisdom
General
The Hermit stands for withdrawal, meaningful experiences, deep experience, search for wisdom and insight and spiritual wealth. This card indicates an introverted phase of life where you need to calm down and come to yourself. You shield yourself from crowds and other outside influences. You will then gain insight into who you are, what you want and how you can achieve it. There is often a fear of loneliness and abandonment in The Hermit. If you voluntarily dare to seek peace and quiet, it gives clarity and strength. You then realize that in the end you have enough of yourself.
Work
In your work, The Hermit stands for self-reflection in which you have to clarify what you really want to achieve. This can lead to a completely new picture of success, recognition, prestige, involvement and money. This brings you a lot closer to what you really want, your true calling. This creates more character retention and a deep inner certainty with which you can also put goals into action. The Hermit can also represent the attitude you adopt at work. He then indicates that seriousness, calmness, thoughtfulness and being alone are important to you.
Love
In relationships, The Hermit can represent loneliness within a relationship. The main meaning of the card here lies in the deep insight and certainty about what is really important to yourself in a relationship. The Hermit takes a serious approach to a relationship where you are willing to limit yourself to just the other person. In this way you can experience deeper experiences in being together.
To ask
What am I looking for in life?
What is really important to me?
Am I enough on my own?
Do I dare to seek the silence to come to myself?
Am I always true to myself?
10 - The Wheel:
Life task
General
The Wheel is your destiny, your life's task, a mission you cannot escape. The card places you in front of (life) experiences that you have to enter into so that you will grow internally. The Wheel stands for large or small events that you hardly have any influence on. All kinds of things that thwart your plans that make them go ahead or not. Or the card gives a feeling of powerlessness and helplessness. You then have the feeling that you are “left to your own devices”. The card also gives you the choice to take your destiny into your own hands.
Work
In your work, this card also often indicates powerlessness, routine and monotony. The discontent you feel weighs on you and makes you want to take destiny into your own hands. The Wheel therefore represents changes that are still in the future and that you are forced to do by fate.
Love
In relationships, the Wheel indicates that you often don't feel comfortable with the situation as it is now or with the things that are happening. This could be because you don't have a life partner and you really want one or you have a relationship full of difficulties that makes you feel bad. The card indicates that you have to learn before you can count on the pleasant things in life again.
To ask
Do I ever wonder what life wants from me?
What task do I have to complete right now?
Am I doing everything in due time?
Do I finish everything I do neatly?
11 - Justice:
Rightiousness
General
Justice stands for clear objective insight and the formation of a judgment that has first been carefully considered. Justice is what you do yourself and therefore get back. If you are honest, your actions will be rewarded. If you do not have sincere intentions, your plan will not succeed. The card indicates that you are largely responsible for what you experience. Justice stands for balance and fairness and indicates that you get what you deserve.
Work
In your work Justice indicates that you want to gain clarity in your tasks and goals in order to arrive at an assessment of your own actions. You can then go and see how to proceed. If you do business honestly and honestly, you will be rewarded appropriately. If you try to cheat or are dishonest, your own actions will not be successful either. Here too you are responsible for what you receive.
Love
In relationships, Justice stands for mirroring both parties. It doesn't necessarily have to be about resignation. This can also be a case of stuck positions. Both partners can have equal power in a harmonious sense or both deter each other equally. The main theme of this card is: As you do, as you meet or: What you give, you get back. Justice is about fairness and balance, the harmonious interaction in the relationship.
To ask
Am I responsible for myself and the things I do?
Am I acting honestly and rightious?
Are my motives pure?
12 - The Hanged Man:
Standstill
General
The Hanged Man stands for standstill and indicates that you are stuck. The card represents a phase of passivity that is absolutely necessary. From the outside it looks like nothing is happening. With his standing still, the Hanged Man gives the opportunity to think deeply about matters and to arrive at different insights. This new way of looking at things will turn your life around.
Work
In your work, De Gevangene stands for stagnation and therefore postponement or ultimately cancellation of what you want. Plans are not executed. It is mainly about small, annoying and delaying events that annoy you but which you do not think about. Going against it and forcing things does nothing.
Love
In relationships, The Hanged One shows that you are stuck in a situation that you experience as very unpleasant. It may be that you do not have a steady partner and that you are trying in vain to get one. It may also be that you are stuck in a relationship in which you try in vain to break out of it. It is important here to think differently, to try to understand what you are not doing well. Only then will the unpleasant situation turn around.
To ask
What caused this situation?
What do I need to change in myself to get things moving again?
What attitude or behavior should I give up?
13 - Death
Ends, change, transformation, transition
Description
The Death Card shows the Messenger of Death - a skeleton clad in black armor, riding a white horse. The skeleton represents the part of the body that survives long after life has left it; the armor symbolizes invincibility and that death will come no matter what. Its dark color is that of mourning and the mysterious, while the horse is the color of purity and acts as a symbol of strength and power. Death carries a black flag decorated with a white rose with five petals, reflecting beauty, purification and immortality and the number five representing change. Together, these symbols reveal that death is not just the end of life. Death is about ends and beginnings, birth and rebirth, change and transformation. There is beauty in death, and it is an inherent part of life. A royal figure appears to be dead on the ground, while a young woman, a child, and a bishop plead with the skeletal figure to spare them. But, as we all know, death spares no one. In the background, a boat floats on the river, similar to the mythological boats escorting the dead to the afterlife. On the horizon, the sun sets between two towers (which also appear in the Tarot card of the Moon), sort of dying each night and being reborn each morning. NOTE: The tarot card meaning description is based on the Rider Waite cards.
14 - Temperance:
Harmony
General
Temperance shows the joy you feel when you are healthy and in balance, taking care of yourself and loving yourself. That way you can also be in harmony with your environment. The card represents 'the right size'. Temperance can also stand for healing and getting better. This card represents harmony, balance, resignation and peace of mind.
Work
In your work Temperance stands for the balance and resignation with which you do your work. This is done at a pleasant working pace. It is not important to you whether you perform a lot or little. Temperance has nothing to do with not wanting to work. The card more indicates the powerful rest with which you do the work. The card also gives a friendly harmonious working atmosphere.
Love
In relationships, Temperance represents a period of contented, happy harmony, and an approach full of affection. This is something that can only happen in silence in loving association with one another. In Temperance there are no intrusive activities or outward brilliance, just an intimacy and modesty you experience inwardly. The card can also represent a new happy relationship.
To ask
Am I in balance with myself?
How can I find inner peace?
Can I be resigned to arrive at a solution?
Can I forgive?
Am I open to a fair compromise?
15 - The Devil:
Temptation
General
The Devil is the card you have the least control over. His face is different for everyone. What is the same for everyone is in feelings of dependence, helplessness and powerlessness, the repeated failure of your good intentions and doing things that go against your principles. The Devil shows himself to you as a seducer in a beautiful, seductive form. The card indicates that you are playing with fire and must be very careful not to burn your fingers. On a deeper level, this card shows your own dark side.
Work
In your work, The Devil shows that your principles, convictions and good intentions are tempted. This could be that you take advantage of a business partner because he doesn't know everything. Or you take advantage of a business partner because he is gullible. The Devil can also represent work that goes against your principles but which you do for fear of losing your job. The Devil will whisper enough reasons in your ear to soothe your conscience.
Love
In relationships, The Devil indicates that you are playing with fire and letting yourself be tempted. The promising temptations excite you and are passionate and sensitive. Soon you are shaken awake to see that the temptation is short-lived. The Devil knows the saying, repentance comes after sin, all too well.
To ask
Am I entangled in that which is not good for me?
Am I tempted to show my dark side?
Who or what am I being seduced by?
Am I stuck in dependency?
Why do I keep doing what I really don't want to do?
In which area can I not measure?
16 - The Tower:
Breakthrough
General
The Tower stands for violent unexpected events, destruction and liberation. The card represents the security you think you have. Suddenly, out of nowhere, these certainties are knocked out from under your feet and everything comes to a standstill. It can be flashes of thought, beliefs, insights, certainties at work or in relationships and friendships. The card indicates that situations have become “too small” for you. It is difficult to give up certainties and opt for change, even when it is urgently needed. With a violent shock, the Tower ensures that everything is broken open. The breakthrough is initially seen as threatening because your certainties dissolve. Once you get used to the new situation, relief comes. You will then see that this shock was necessary and that it freed you from old ballast.
Work
In your work, The Tower can represent the collapse of what you have built on it. This can be, for example, a career, a company or a project. The Tower does this in a radical way and can stand for getting or even resigning. The card ensures that suffocating work or holding on to certainty too rigidly is broken open. Your work and environment will then become more lively and free so that you can develop yourself better. Once you have recovered from the violent shock, there is a sigh of relief that you are liberated and that it was urgently needed.
Love
In relationships, The Tower indicates that the safe wall you have built around yourself is suddenly being knocked away. You are touched by a violent shock in the depths of your soul. The card can represent a reversal when you want to cling too much to certainty. Because of this, you may find yourself clinging to a relationship that is no longer good for you. The Tower can also indicate that you are hiding behind a behavior of coolness and rigidity and are now suddenly opening yourself up to a relationship.
To ask
What needs to be broken open?
What do I have to free myself from?
Am I trapped in stuck patterns?
What am I convulsively maintaining?
17 - The Star:
The future
General
The Star is a map of hope, wisdom and insight into larger contexts. The card represents plans you make or things you start that extend far into the future. This is not entirely clear in the beginning because you can only see the consequences of your plans afterwards. As with sowing, some time will pass before you can reap the fruitful results. The Star, along with The Witch and The Druid, is one of the three protective cards of the Tarot that provides favorable prospects for the course of an event.
Work
In your work, The Star represents the start of a meaningful activity. This could mean embarking on a promising new career or other plans that have bright prospects ahead. The Star also offers great opportunities for the future and a good chance of success in projects, negotiations or starting your own company.
Love
In relationships, The Star stands for promising encounters. These relationships can be exciting and often have bright prospects for the future. Relationships indicated by The Star are under a lucky star.
To ask
Do I dare to face my future with confidence?
Do I still have hope or have I already given up?
Am I going down this road with a positive outlook?
18 - The Moon:
Darkness
General
The Moon stands for your dreams and desires, fear and uncertainty and for fearful premonitions. The dark side of The Moon gives you fears and makes you feel in the dark. The light side of The Moon provides romantic dreams, vivid fantasies and a great feeling. Unfortunately, the map often faces the dark side and gives you irrational fears of that which you cannot see or touch.
Work
In your work, The Moon stands for fear and uncertainty in connection with your job, fear that you will fail an exam, not get a job or that you are afraid that you will not find suitable work. The fear you have about this is often largely irrational. Even if you know in your mind that the fear is not necessary, the oppressive feeling remains. The Moon indicates that the fear does not disappear by avoiding situations, but by facing the fear. Nightmares don't go away with your eyes closed.
Love
In relationships, The Moon stands for her dreamy, romantic side that creates yearning feelings, dreams and castles in the air. The card here also has the meaning of fear and uncertainty. The Moon can indicate relationships that involve jealousy, vulnerability, or fear of abandonment. The card gives you the opportunity to become aware of childhood experiences and to process them. The Moon can also mean that the relationship is a dream.
To ask
What am I so afraid of?
Do I dare to face my fears?
Where does my fear come from?
What puts me in the dark?
Can I make the darkness disappear?
19 - The Sun:
Lust for life
General
The Sun stands for strength, great joie de vivre, vitality, warmth and optimism. The card shows the bright side of life. The Sun provides renewal and often gives a feeling of being reborn. The card indicates that you need to unfold the sunny part of yourself. The power of The Sun ensures that you gain clarity and overcome worries, problems and fears.
Work
In your work you feel strong and renewed and you have a great creative power. This allows you to do your work with success and creativity. You enjoy the work you do and are confident. The collaboration with colleagues or superiors is cordial and full of positivity.
Love
In relationships, De Zon stands for sunny times and a warm, joyful enjoyment. There is understanding for each other and you are willing to say yes to the relationship from the bottom of your heart. The card stands for sunny times, warmth, carelessness, great entrepreneurial spirit and enjoyment. The Sun is the power that gives limitlessly without giving itself away. The card represents magnanimity and the bright light that dispels dark clouds.
To ask
Do I love life?
Am I positive?
Am I looking on the bright side?
Am I spontaneous and carefree?
Do I dare to use my renewed power?
20 - Rebirth:
Salvation
General
Rebirth has a particularly favorable meaning and provides the decisive step towards self-realization. The card represents the redemption and liberation of that which held you captive. That can represent all kinds of liberation: worries, inhibitions, fears, long-term difficult situations or thankless relationships. Rebirth can also stand for finding your true treasure in what you are doing.
Work
In your work, Rebirth stands for a decisive phase and is often accompanied by dismissal or changing working conditions that ultimately have a positive effect on you. The card indicates that the layoff or change in your job is a redemption and that the new direction you are taking is more of the task intended for you.
Love
In relationships, Rebirth indicates that your true 'treasure' is to be found in a deep relationship that is of great significance to you. You may have found this in an already existing relationship. If you are still single, you may find this in an upcoming relationship. It is not about superficial contacts, but about a deep inner change from which you have closed yourself up until then.
To ask
What do I want to be delivered from?
Who or what is my true treasure?
What have I shut myself off from this whole time?
Is now the time to let go of my fears and worries?
21 - The World:
End goal
General
The World represents unity, wholeness, satisfaction, the end point of the journey and the completion of a cycle. You have arrived at the place where you belong and you have reached your goal. Sometimes this also means the purpose of life. The card gives unity, harmony and a happy ending. The World is similar to The Wheel, both represent the cyclical progression of time and your experiences. For your inner self, Rebirth is the step towards authenticity.
Work
In your work, The World indicates that you have chosen the right profession. It is also possible that you work in the position where you belong or that you are working towards that. That does not mean that there can be no further developments. The card only indicates that what you have done so far has been good. You are on your way to fulfilling your own life task. The World can also mean that you travel or that you have international contacts.
Love
In relationships, The World indicates that you belong in your relationship and that you feel good about yourself. The card can also indicate that a partner is coming who will become your life companion. With The World, a relationship is never a superficial contact. The card represents a lasting, solid friendship or partnership that has profound meaning.
To ask
Where is my place in the world?
Have I adopted the right attitude?
What is my ultimate goal?
