Choosing tarot decks is much like searching for your soul mate. Beginners may hope to find a “standard deck” that comes with a booklet of definitions. However, all the experienced tarot card readers will tell you that reading tarot cards is a deeply personal experience that relies upon your intuition, your personal style and your perceptions. Some decks come with basic imagery you can decipher at a glance, whereas others require a more studious eye.

Arguably, the most well-known is the Rider-Waite tarot cards. These decks were created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a prominent member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn occult group. He chose artist Pamela Colman-Smith to craft the 78-card deck, slightly tweaking certain details from earlier decks. For example, the “Pope” card became the “Hierophant” and “Popess” became “High Priestess.” Waite also switched the Strength and Justice cards (Strength became card 8 and Justice card 11). The Minor Arcana numbered suit cards had a full repertoire of pictorial scenes, rather than being merely suited or numbered. For years, this was the only readily available deck in America and with its comprehensive book of symbolism, it became the beginners “must-have” deck. Today, there are other decks similar to the Rider-Waite, including the Universal Waite tarot deck, Golden Tarot, Aquarian tarot deck, Nigel Jackson Tarot, Gilded Tarot and Golden Rider, to name a few.

Experienced tarot card readers often mention they’ve outgrown Rider-Waite tarot decks over time. Those looking for deeper tarot card meanings might want to try the Thoth tarot deck designed by famous occultist Aleister Crowley. Each of the tarot cards are intricately designed to include depictions of Astrology, the Zodiac and Qabalistic imagery. Colors are said to be particularly important, especially in the elemental cards. Crowley renamed some of the cards, for example, “The Magician” became “The Magus,” “The World” became “The Universe,” “Strength” became “Adjustment” and “Justice” became “Lust.” The Hanged Man and The Moon cards were borrowed from Egyptian mythology and the suit cards carry slightly different meanings, when compared to the traditional Ride-Waite deck.

While looking for tarot decks, you should have a spiritual stirring as you gaze upon the images. Early tarot cards were commissioned by wealthy patrons and rulers to incorporate their own personal beliefs. Some decks hold political or cultural heritage slants, while others may speak to Wiccan, pagan, Christian, Hebrew or occult beliefs. Finding a deck you’re comfortable with is paramount to your learning tarot experience, so choose wisely. You may even want to experiment with a couple different decks until you find your favorite.

Did you know that tarot cards can give you a glimpse into how you work,play and function with others? It can guide you in making decisions that will have a huge impact on your life if you know what the cards mean. You do not need a psychic on a phone or in a booth to tell you that though. You can find your own future by learning to read the cards yourself. With a little help and the right guidance you can read the cards and know what your future holds in store for you.

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No woman is worthy to be a wife who on the day of her marriage is not lost absolutely and entirely in an atmosphere of love and perfect trust; the supreme sacredness of the relation is the only thing which, at the time, should possess her soul. Women should not “obey” men anymore than men should obey women. There are six requisites in every happy marriage; the first is Faith, and the remaining five are Confidence. Nothing so compliments a man as for a woman to believe in him nothing so pleases a woman as for a man to place confidence in her. Obey? God help me! Yes, if I loved a woman, my whole heart’s desire would be to obey her slightest wish. And how could I love her unless I had perfect confidence that she would only aspire to what was beautiful, true and right? And to enable her to realize this ideal, her wish would be to me a sacred command; and her attitude of mind toward me I know would be the same. And the only rivalry between us would be as to who could love the most; and the desire to obey would be the one controlling impulse of our lives. We gain freedom by giving it, and he who bestows faith gets it back with interest. To bargain and stipulate in love is to lose. Perfect faith implies perfect love; and perfect love casteth out fear. It is always the fear of imposition, and a lurking intent to rule, that causes the woman to haggle over a word it is absence of love, a limitation, an incapacity. The price of a perfect love is an absolute and complete surrender. To give a man something for nothing tends to make the individual dissatisfied with himself. Your enemies are the ones you have helped. And when an individual is dissatisfied with himself he is dissatisfied with the whole world and with you. A man’s quarrel with the world is only a quarrel with himself. But so strong is this inclination to lay blame elsewhere and take credit to ourselves, that when we are unhappy we say it is the fault of this woman or that man. Especially do women attribute their misery to That Man. And often the trouble is he has given her too much for nothing. This truth is a reversible, back-action one, well lubricated by use, working both ways as the case may be. That form of affection which drives sharp bargains and makes demands, gets a check on the bank in which there is no balance. There is nothing so costly as something you get for nothing.