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Tarot Card Meanings: Strength
The higher you build your barriersThe taller I becomeThe further you take my rights awayThe faster I will runYou can deny meYou can decide to turn your face awayNo matter, cos there’sSomething inside so strongI know that I can make itThough you’re doing me wrong, so wrongYou thought that my pride was goneOh no, something inside so strong ‘So Strong’ by Labi Siffre (Siffre) Welcome to my strong wheel! Strength is the eighth card of the Major Arcana in many Tarot traditions, and represents inner fortitude, self-mastery, and the power of gentleness. In this post, I explore what the Strength Tarot card means: from mythology and theology to personal experience,…
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Tarot Card Meanings: The Chariot
“I see it, I want it, I stunt, yellow-bone itI dream it, I work hard, I grind ’til I own itI twirl on them haters, albino alligatorsEl Camino with the seat low, sippin’ Cuervo with no chaserSometimes I go off, I go hardGet what’s mine, I’m a starCause I slay” ‘Formation’ by Beyoncé (Knowles/Williams/Hogan/Brown) Welcome to my chariot wheel! The Chariot is the seventh card of the Major Arcana, representing willpower, victory, determination, and the challenge of keeping opposing forces in balance. In this post, I explore what the Chariot means in Tarot readings: its triumphs, its warnings, and its many fascinating depictions across different decks. Though it’s called the…
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Tarot Card Meanings: The Lovers
“I’m running away with youFrom yesterday’s newsLet’s leave it all behindHelp me back to my mindI’ve paid the penaltyYou’re the jailer rattling the keyBut the key is mineI keep a spare one every timeThis is for loversRunning awayThis is for loversRunning away” ‘For Lovers’ by Wolfman (Wolfe/Taylor/Doherty/White/Scott/Scott) Welcome to my loving circle! The Lovers is the sixth card of the Major Arcana, and it’s often misunderstood. While it can represent romantic love, its deeper meaning is about choice, commitment, and soulful alignment. In this post, I explore the many layers of the Lovers Tarot card, from mythology and symbolism, to popular deck imagery and how we experience the energy of…
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Tarot Card Meanings: The Hierophant
I’ve got the keyI’ve got the secretI’ve got the key to another way ‘The Key, The Secret’ by Urban Cookie Collective (Rizzatti / Moratto / Persi / Heath) Welcome to my circle of wisdom! In this post I am focusing on the Hierophant (typo-enemy of indie deck producers everywhere 😂). The Hierophant is the fifth card of the Major Arcana, representing tradition, spiritual teaching, community wisdom, and the bridge between the sacred and the everyday. Here I’ll explore what the Hierophant means in Tarot readings, how the archetype has evolved, and how to work with both its light and shadow. Given The Hierophant can be accused of many of the…
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Tarot Card Meanings: The Sun
Here comes the sun,Here comes the sun, and I sayIt’s alright Little darlin’, it’s been a long, cold, lonely winterLittle darlin’, it feels like years since it’s been here… Little darlin’, the smile’s returning to their facesLittle darlin’, it seems like years since it’s been here… Sun, sun, sun, here it comes… Little darlin’, I feel that ice is slowly meltingLittle darlin’, it seems like years since it’s been clear Here comes the sun,Here comes the sunIt’s alright It’s alright ‘Here Comes The Sun’ by The Beatles (Harrison) Welcome to my circle of sunshine! The Sun is the nineteenth card of the Major Arcana, and represents joy, clarity, vitality, and…
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Tarot Card Meanings: The Moon
Johnny, take a walk with your sister the moonLet her pale light in, to fill up your room.You’ve been living underground, eating from a canYou’ve been running away from what you don’t understand. She’s slippy, you’re sliding down.She’ll be there when you hit the ground. It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright.She moves in mysterious ways… She’s the wave, she turns the tideShe sees the man inside the child… Move you, spirits move youMove, spirits move you, oh yeah.Does it move you?She moves with it.Lift my days, and light up my nights, oh. “Mysterious Ways” by U2 (Hewson/Clayton/Mullen/Evans) Welcome to my circle of The Moon! The Moon is the eighteenth card…
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Tarot Card Meanings: The Emperor
“Regrets, I’ve had a fewBut then again too few to mentionI did what I had to doI saw it through without exemptionI planned each charted courseEach careful step along the bywayAnd more, much, much moreI did it my way Yes, there were times I’m sure you knewWhen I bit off more than I could chewBut through it all, when there was doubtI ate it up and spit it outI faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way For what is a man, what has he got?If not himself then he has naughtTo say the things he truly feelsAnd not the words of one who kneelsThe record…
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Tarot Card Meanings: The Empress
“I can cast a spell of secrets you can tellMix a special brew, put fire inside of youAnytime you feel danger or fearThen instantly I will appear, ’cause I’m every womanIt’s all in meAnything you want done babyI do it naturally Oh, I can sense your needs like rain onto the seedsI can make a rhyme of confusion in your mindAnd when it comes down to some good old fashioned loveI got it, I got it, I got it, got it, baby, baby I’m every womanIt’s all in meAnything you want done babyI do it naturally” ‘I’m Every Woman’ by Chaka Khan (Nickolas/Valerie) Welcome to the loving embrace of the…
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Tarot Card Meanings: The Star
In a tree by the brook, there’s a songbird who singsSometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven…And as we wind on down the roadOur shadows taller than our soulThere walks a lady we all knowWho shines white light and wants to showHow everything still turns to goldAnd if you listen very hardThe tune will come to you at lastWhen all are one and one is all, yeahTo be a rock and not to roll ‘Stairway to Heaven’ by Led Zeppelin (Page/Plant) Welcome to my Circle of Stars! The Star is the seventeenth card of the Major Arcana, and represents hope, healing, faith, and the long path back to wholeness. In…
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Tarot Card Meanings: The Tower
The summer sunIt blows my mindIt’s falling down on all that I’ve ever knownTime to kiss the world goodbyeFalling down on all that I’ve ever knownIs all that I’ve ever known A dying screamIt makes no soundCalling out to all that I’ve ever knownHere am I, lost and foundCalling out to all ‘Falling Down’ (Chemical Brothers Remix) by Oasis (N. Gallagher) Welcome to my circle of destruction! The Tower is the sixteenth card of the Major Arcana, and represents sudden upheaval, destruction, revelation, and necessary truth. In this post, I explore the Tower Tarot meaning, through symbolism, psychology, history, mythology, and lived experience – to uncover what happens when illusions…
