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Tarot card definitions are not always easy to remember. Plus there are often so many of them, that
it simply boggles the mind. So why not consider forming your own Tarot card definitions? It can be
a very creative and challenging process, and one which makes you really tune-in to your cards
effectively.
Here, I will share with you some simple methods for forming your own Tarot card definitions. Get
your notebook and pen / pencil ready and let's begin!
1. Observe the images in each card and write down a short phrase or word which describes an
event in your life which was similar to the event or situation happening in the card. These phrases
and words are now your personal meanings for these cards!
2. Now, this one is from a very non-personal kind of a view. Hold the card in your hand and
write down 3 phrases or words which explain the event or situation that is happening in the card.
Now, take the Little White Book (or LWB as Tarot-ists refer them) or the companion book that came
along with the deck. Along with the explanation of the pictures, often these books will have a
small list of meanings. For now, don't read the explanation and just focus on these meanings. See
if you got any of these meanings. Whatever, is not in the book is something you have personally
defined for that card!
3. This method is one of my personal favorites - I call it the 'Make a Story Method'. Pull out
any 5 cards randomly from a well shuffled deck. You can pull out more or less if you like to: there
is no hard and fast rule. Just go with the number of cards you are comfortable with.
Now arrange them and re-arrange them till you feel that the pictures are making sense -
you can put one card above the other or beside the other - again, go with the flow. It should seem
as if the pictures, the scenery of the cards' backgrounds and the elements and people in the cards
are all part of a big picture postcard. Once you are done, look at the entire picture and write
down a story (of say 200 words or so) made up of the characters in the 'postcard'.
When you are done writing the story, identify which card made up which part of the story and
write that in the margin. Study how you have linked these images to each other. Now, re-arrange 2
or 3 of these cards and write down how the story changes. This is a great way to see how the cards
move in a flow in connection with each other and thus change the meaning / story entirely. This
will come in handy for when you are doing readings for people, and even when you are doing some
interesting story writing for a class etc.
In this manner, you would have formed several different kinds of definitions for each Tarot
card. If you want to learn more about the various
[http://www.readingtarotcardsrevealed.com]definitions of Tarot cards, then do visit my website and
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Teresa Caro is a tarot card enthusiast and professional tarot card teacher. She has written a
book on reading tarot designed to help the beginner read for them self and others. You can learn
more about her book and sign up for her free newsletter at http://www.ReadingTarotCardsRevealed.com
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