Tarot Reading: Deeper Into The Arcanas/Three-card Spread

First I would like to restate the definition of the two arcanas in tarot reading. The first one is called the Major Arcana. It consists of twenty-two cards from zero to twenty-one and are considered to be the greater mysteries in someone's life. This means the important events in a life that are beyond the person's control and can lead them in a new direction (Tarot For Beginners A Practical Guide to Reading the Cards 20). The second arcana is called the Minor Arcana (smaller mysteries). This section holds fifty-six cards that represent events in our everyday lives or people. Within this arcana are four suits like in a deck of playing cards. The suits are normally called wands, cups, swords, and pentacles which represent fire, water, air, and earth (Tarot For Beginners A Practical Guide to Reading the Cards 21).

"Wands = Fire
Cups = Water
Swords = Air
Pentacles = Earth" (Tarot For Beginners A Practical Guide to Reading the Cards 21).

Definitions for each suit:

• "Wands/fire - fiery energy - passionate, energetic, inspiring, and dangerous
• Cups/water - emotions, relationships, dreams, intuition, the soul, and subconscious 
• Swords/air - problems, logic, thinking, communication
• Pentacles/earth - energy is grounded, stable, prosperous, pertinent to the physical world, finances, resources, and health" (Tarot For Beginners A Practical Guide to Reading the Cards 22).

In each suit there are four courts (cards that represent people) and an ace through ten (cards that represent events in our everyday lives). The four courts are: king, queen, knight and page (Tarot For Beginners A Practical Guide to Reading the Cards 22).

Now I'm going to show you a reading I did by using a three-card spread, a method that "instructs us to lay the cards out in a certain order and to assign a meaning to the position that each card holds" (Tarot For Beginners A Practical Guide to Reading the Cards 11).

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The person I did this reading on asked a personal question. The results were: the ACE OF SWORDS, KNIGHT OF CUPS and FOUR OF PENTACLES.

Ace Of Swords (past) - "You have the gift of thought. Use it rightly to see the world clearly, to communicate well, and to create a happy, healthy reality. Be aware of having a sharp tongue. A clever wit or a desire for honest are gifts of the word. Do not use them in a destructive manner" (The Gilded Tarot Companion 101).

Knight of Cups (present) - "You are feeling very romantic. You are more interested in candles, decadent dinners, and lofty declarations of love than usual. Celebrating the beautiful and sensual experiences of life is just as necessary as any other experience. Enjoy! Be aware of daydreaming when you shouldn't. Don't let romantic ideals take you away from your path. It's one thing to celebrate a dream-come-true feeling in your life; it's another to chase after dreams that can never be" (The Gilded Tarot Companion 127).

Four of Pentacles (future) - "You possess a certain amount of resources, and you've become possessive of them. You are hoarding your money, your time, your abilities. You've lost sight of what these things are for you and face a lonely, unfulfilled unless you are your resources wisely. Be aware of the opposite extreme of giving away all you have so that you are depleted and have nothing left to offer" (The Gilded Tarot Companion 112).

Side notes:

• I'm still learning how to put the cards together in order to connect them. For example, because you were like this in the past this caused you to be like this in the present and possibly the future.
• The reason why I don't put the author's last name for my citations is because she wrote both of these books.

Question: If you were warned by a tarot reading would you actually try your best to prevent this warning from actually occurring?

Moore, Barbara. Tarot For Beginners A Practical Guide to Reading the Cards. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2014.

Moore, Barbara. The Gilded Tarot Companion. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2013.