Major Arcana

The Major Arcana is a 22 card set within the tarot that is considered to be the core and the foundation for the deck. All of the deck is filled with archetypal significance, but this is most pronounced within the Major Arcana. These cards follow a storyline that tells of the spiritual travels taken from the innocent wonder of The Fool to the oneness and fulfillment of The World. In other words, these cards tell the story of humanity's spiritual evolution into enlightenment and individuation.

The Fool

The Fool depicts a youth walking joyfully into the world. He is taking hisfirst steps, and he is exuberant, joyful, excited. He carries nothing with himexcept a small sack, caring nothing for the possible dangers that lie in hispath.

The Magician

The Magician is one tarot card that is filled with symbolism. The central figure depicts someone with one hand pointed to the sky, while the other hand points to the ground, as if to say "as above, so below".

The High Priestess

The meaning of the High Priestess is related with inner knowledge. Her appearance in a reading can signify that it is time for you to listen to your intuition rather than prioritizing your intellect and conscious mind.

The Empress

The Empress shows us how deeplywe are embedded to our femininity. Femininity could be associatedwith fertility, expression, creativity and nurturing among many otheraspects.

The Lovers

In the Lovers card, the man and the woman in the image are beingprotected and blessed by an angel above. The couple seems secure and happyin their home, which appears to be the Garden of Eden.

The Emperor

In the Emperor tarot card, a stoic ruler figure can be seen on his throne, which is adorned with the heads of four rams, representing hisastrological sign - Aries.

The Hierophant

The card depicts a religious figure that sits in a rather formalenvironment characteristic for a church. He is wearing three elaboratevestments which are designated to represent the three different worlds.

The Chariot

The Chariot tarot card depicts a figure sitting inside a vehicle that is being driven by two black and white sphinxes. The whole card has a bit of a celestial influence; the figure sits underneath a blue canopy adorned by white stars.

Strength

In this tarot card, you will see a woman who calmly holds the jaws of afully grown lion. Despite the fact that the lion looks menacing andstrong, the woman seems to have dominion over it.

The Hermit

The Hermit depicts an old man standing alone at the peak of the mountainwhile holding a lantern in one of his hands and a staff on the other. Themountain denotes accomplishment, development, and success.

The Hanged Man

The hanged man understands that his position is a sacrifice that he needed to make in order to progress forward - whether as repentance for past wrong doings, or acalculated step backward to recalculate his path onward.

Wheel Of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune is one of the most highly symbolic cards in thedeck, filled with signs that each have its own meaning. At the center ofthe card, lies a giant wheel, covered in esoteric symbols.

Justice

The Justice tarot card is a symbol of truth, fairness, and law. As she sits in her chair, the scales in her left hand represent how intuition should balance logic.

Death

Death is one of the most feared cards in a Tarot Deck, and it is very misunderstood. Many people avoid mentioning this card because it has that much power.

Temperance

On the Temperance card, there isan angel with wings, whose gender is not immediately obvious,which suggests that there is a balance between the sexes. One foot ofthe angel is in water, to represent the subconscious, while the other foot is ondry land, a representation of the material world.

Devil

This card shows the Devil represented in his most well-knownsatyr form, otherwise known as Baphomet. Along with being half goat andhalf man, the devil has bat wings and an inverted pentagram on his forehead.

The Moon

Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life

The Tower

The Tower card depicts a high spire nestled on top of the mountain. A lightning bolt strikes the tower which sets it ablaze. Flames are burst in gin the windows and people are jumping out of the windows as an act of desperation.

The Star

The Star card shows a woman kneeling at the edge of a small pond. Sheis holding two containers of water. One container pours the water out to thedry land, as if to to nourish it and ensure its fertility.

The Sun

The Sun card presents an feeling of optimism and fulfillment. This card represents the dawn which follows the darkest of nights. The Sun is the source of all the life on our planet, and it represents life energy itself.

Judgment

This card depicts what one would imagine the last judgment would be, in the various forms that takes in many mythologies.

The World

The World card in the tarot deck has a dancing figure at the center. Thedancing figure on the card has one leg crossed over the other andholds a wand in either hand.