Waite Tarot Cards - Basic Info About Waite Tarot Cards

Waite Tarot Cards are one of the most commonlytemporary problems. It has to be treated as a
known decks in the world. The traditions of tarot canrepresentation of the most basic concerns of ours.
be traced back to the XV. century in Italy, France,The Minor Arcana helps to interpret the Major one,
Spain. It's widely believed that in the beginning theseby breaking it down to show that how it affects us
cards had nothing to do with divination they werein our daily lives. This arcana has four suits and they
only simple playing cards which had beautifulapproach a different aspect of life. Minor arcana uses
illustrations. These illustrations depicted conditions ofthe Wands suit to represent creativity, movement
life like: virtues, prudence and temperance. Mostand action, Cups suit to represent emotions and
Tarot historians agree that the cards from the 15thspiritual experience, Swords suit to represent intellect
century are considered as historical decks and theand reason and finally the Pentacle suit to represent
decks used from the 19th century are known assecurity and material concerns.
traditional spreads.Tarot is widely known as a tool for divination. The
In 1910 Arthur Edward Waite published his worldmost common tarot reading needs two persons one
famous deck with the help of the Rider company,who is the seeker who needs answers to his or hers
from here comes the name Rider-Waite deck. Thisquestion and a reader who has detailed knowledge
set of cards contains a total of seventy eight cardsabout the cards and can interpret them. At first the
from which twenty two are from the major arcanaseeker shuffles the deck, cuts it and hands it over to
and fifty six are from the minor arcana. The wordthe reader. The reader lays out the cards in a spread
arcana comes from the word "arcanum" which standsand explains the the meaning of the spread and the
for profound secret.meaning of the card thus answering the seekers
The Major Arcana expresses universal themes like:questions. The Waite Tarot Cards are considered as
Strength, Justice. Each card from this arcana has afavorites to novices and professionals alike because
name and a number which can tell directly it'sWaite tried to make his tarot deck speak out with
meaning. Whenever this type of card appears thenthe help of color, scenes and symbols.
we can know that it won't be related to simple or