Rider-Waite Tarot Cards - Your Guide to the Future

Mention Rider-Waite Tarot Cards - or Tarot Cards inArcana. These cards include the Hierophant, the High
general - to people and they immediately conjure upPriestess, the Magician, the Fool, Death, and the
an image of a gypsy with dark hair, a mysterious air,Hangman, among others. Although some contend you
and thick accent wearing large gold hoop earrings, acan foretell what will happen with only the Major
silk blouse, and long, full, multi-colored skirts. As youArcana, most feel it is important to use the remaining
sit in a darkened room (or perhaps in a tent just off56 Rider-Waite Tarot Cards of the Minor Arcana as
a circus midway) the over sized cards with theirwell. The Minor Arcana is made up of four suits
strange images are laid out before you and(Wands, Pentacles, Cups and Swords) of fourteen
miraculously your most cherished dream, greatestcards each.
dread, or more likely a mixture of the two, isAs you focus on a specific question from the person
described in alarmingly clear detail by this darkfor whom you are doing the reading, you need to lay
stranger.some of the cards out in a prescribed order. By
But did you know you can use Rider-Waite Tarottaking the meaning of each of the individual cards and
Cards and learn how to divine the future yourself?coupling it with position in the layout you have used,
You can learn to see into the future for yourself,you are able to interpret what the cards are telling
your family, and friends in a relatively short time andyou and divine the future for the question on the
with often uncanny accuracy.table. The more you practice asking questions and
The deck itself consists of 78-cards. The cards areusing the cards for the answer, the quicker and more
divided into two parts: The Major Acana and theadept you become at communicating their true
Minor Aracana. There are 22 cards in the Majormeaning.