Rider Waite Cheat Sheet - E-book - ePub

This Rider Waite Cheat Sheet is meant to be used with the Gypsy Tarot Spread by Linda Drummond. We can think of Tarot cards as an unbound book made up of seventy-eight pages, with each card representing any number of possible ideas. However, instead of using words, sentences and paragraphs, the pages of the Book of Tarot communicate key ideas by means of pictorial signs and symbols. Each card symbolically depicts a particular idea about human values, social norms and various kinds of typical human experience. As an artifact of history, the Book of Tarot stands as a kind of repository of universal ideas about human experience.
The art of reading tarot cards involves learning how to interpret the conventional signs and symbols used and how to apply these meanings to find answers. This particular use of the cards is called divination. The root of the word divination is divine, which is a verb meaning to "make out by inspiration" to foresee, predict or conjecture. This definition provides an accurate description of the general object of tarot card reading, that is, to divine future events.