Tarot and Angel Card Readings Tarot Cards Tarot cards have fascinated people for centuries. They have been linked to witchcraft, gypsies, magicians and the occult while being denounced as heretical by the Church, even once condemned as "the rungs of a ladder, leading to the depths of hell" and "devices of the devil". The tarot originated in northern Italy early in the 15th century (1420-1440). There is no evidence for it originating in any other time or place. The earliest existing cards are lavish hand-painted decks from the courts of the nobility although only 17 of the original cards remain and whether they are tarot or just playing cards is still hotly debated.

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The standard deck of the Tarot pack contains 78 cards, namely, 56 minor (lesser) arcana and 22 major (greater) arcana but only appeared in the early 15th century when the Duke of Milan commissioned a set of cards known as the Visconti deck, after the family name. These ornate gold leaf, hand painted cards were a wedding gift and used for a new northern Italian card game which required an additional 22 cards be added to the standard 56 card deck. Although Visconti was a great believer in scholarship and astrology, and employed philosophers to create an allegorical game of pagan gods, there is supposition around whether these additional ornate 22 pictorial images were ever used for any purpose other than gaming albeit in some cases, educational. Tarot were also used as a pictorial memory system and meditation aid during the Renaissance period.

Despite the lack of evidence to suggest an earlier existence of Tarot, the images of the major arcana are essentially medieval and draw on key figures and concepts of that time and a much older system of beliefs.The influence of the Tarot has spread throughout the world unrestricted by language barriers or semantics as it relies on the universal language of symbolism, the language of the unconscious which activates the intuitive mind.

Other links include ancient Egyptian mythology, astrology, gnosticism, ritual magic and even the complex Hebrew Kabala which have all influenced interpretations of the cards over the centuries. The great occult revival in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, most notably the powerful magic order of The Golden Dawn which produced the Rider-Waite deck and the controversial Alesister Crowley's creation of the Throth deck. Tarot have been more recently influenced by modern psychology in general, but more specifically by Jungian psychology who believed events and coincidences contained more meaningful messages, akin to a guiding force.

Tarot is a tool of divination and can be used to clarify the decision making process, help to analyse problems, enable you to understand/heal yourself and other people better, to help understand the past,and when used to predict the future can be uncannily accurate. Readings often present other choices or courses of action that could be taken but ultimately the responsibility remains firmly in the inquirer's own hands by the choices they make and the governing laws of cause and effect (Karma).

Tarot reading costs start at £20 or if combined with an Angel Card reading (see below) at £25.

Top Angel Cards Angel cards are derived from the echelon of biblical Angels from Seraphim. Cherubim, Archangels, to Angels. Angels are common throughout many religions and beliefs, they are the link to the Divine source and are known as 'Gods Messengers'. To believe in Angels means that you must have a belief in God. No-one knows where Angels came from and in religious quarters there is much debate as to whether they existed before the earth was made or whether they were made by God at that time.

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Angels belong to no religion they can be found in the Bible and the Koran. They are Divine Beings who unlike Spirit guides, have never existed in human form, although when they want to they can take this form to communicate with us.

Many people believe we are born with two Guardian Angels, who stand at our left and right shoulders recording our deeds and  assisting us when we ask for their help. Belief in Angels is a personal choice, their are many accounts of people who have had encounters with Angels, some miraculous and awesome others simply reveal how, when we are open Angels can come into our lives.

Their intervention or presence can often be sensed, though hard to define, through subtle changes in energies, intuition and gut feelings that help you make choices. Some times these choices are not always obvious or the most practical and it is often only afterwards you are able to understand or realise the outcome of the choice you made, especially when it didn't seem the most practical to others at the time.

It is difficult to define where intuition stops and the intervention of Angels starts but Angels always represent good. Angel Card readings help you understand your situation and may give you an insight to the outcome. They also give you reassurance that their help is ever present if you choose to call on it. They bring you closer to the Angels who guide and protect you as journey through this life.

Angel Card readings cost £15

If done in conjunction with a Tarot Card reading the charge for both is £25.

If you would like more information or to book a reading please contact me on 07760 460358 or email me.

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