Tarrot Game of Zen

Zen

• Zen is the total state of focus that incorporates a total togetherness of body and mind

• It involves dropping illusion & seeing things without distortion created by your own thoughts

• Spiritual meaning of Zen must be interpreted individually because it is not a simple answer to a question & cannot be answered by any Zen master

• It is difficult to comprehend Zen because those who are not enlightened have minds that make Zen’s meaning out to be much more difficult to understand than the true simplicity of the belief

Origin of Game

• The English and French word tarot derives from the Italian tarocchi, which has no known origin

• The singular term is tarocco, commonly known today as a term for a type of blood orange in Italian

• Among many theories to the origin of the word, one relates the name "tarot" to the Taro River in northern Italy

• Game seems to have originated in northern Italy, in Milan on the other side writers believe it comes from the Arabic

Tarrot • The tarot is a structure of symbols & pictures

on 78 tarot cards, 22 are called major arcana & 56 minor arcana

• Minor arcana are divided into cups, wands, swords & pentacles

• Out of the 56 minor arcana tarot cards there are 16 court cards which are the kings, queens, knights and pages

• They represent the people in our lives and also our attitudes and personalities

• There are 4 aces, they represent the potential & the new beginnings available to us

• There are 4 aces. They aces represent the potential & new beginnings available

• The major arcana tarot cards are strongly linked to Astrology and Numerology

• Reading cards is a art of pure belief & concentration

• There are online Tarot cards available to get insight of astrological guidance, meanings, symbolism & personality traits

Reading Major Cards

• The Major Arcana cards are viewed as the big things in our life that are more or less out of our control

• They can be interpreted as our environment that we are influenced by and/or as the internal changes that we experience as individuals

• Many people use Major Arcana cards in personal development & as a channel for transformation

• Working with the Major Arcana energies will evoke changes both on external and internal levels

Reading Minor Cards

• Minor cards incorporate 4 elements, fire, water, air and earth, called the suits

• The suits have different names from the elements 

• Fire is usually wands, but sometimes they are called rods. Water is cups. Air is swords. Earth is usually pentacles, but sometimes they are called disks or coins

• Within the different suits are all the different attributes

Reading your ways

• It is important to trust your instinct in the tarot

•  If anyone finds it difficult to understand what the tarot is communicating to them, they should pick up the cards & re-shuffle them

• One of best way to learn to read tarot is to practice

• There are many ways of practicing tarot every day, even if one doesn't have any clients to read for yet

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