Tarot card meanings are crucial to interpreting tarot card spreads properly. Study them. Learn them. But most importantly, make them your own.
Through working with tarot cards on a regular basis, they'll start to speak to you, giving you hints and tips as to their meaning, whether on their own or in a spread.
Whatever meanings you start with, the more you work with tarot cards, the better you understand them. Don't hesitate to listen to them and to modify general meanings into something more personal.
Tarot, in my opinion, isn't meant to be a rigid system of right and wrong. It is liquid and malleable and will change with you. It can be a lifelong process of refinement that is transformational - for both you and the cards!
Here are some tarot meanings, as they are for me right now. They will always be shifting and shuffling with me and don't be afraid to let them do the same for you. If you have any questions, just ask !
In this section, each meaning is on its own page. If you'd like to see some meanings en masse, by number or suit, please visit the Meaning of Each Tarot Card page.
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