I have a tarot deck that was gifted to me made entirely of leather and just the major arcana. It has an extremely powerful energy to it, and I knew right away this was a tarot deck to be used in spell work, not divination. So I started meditating and looking into the cards and really thinking about what they could be used for/associations. So hereās what I came up with!
(Note: I mention curses in here because some of the cards do lend themselves really well to that. If you donāt curse personally, feel free to disregard those parts. This is based on my personal relationship with the cards, so your personal associations and meanings for your deck may be very different. Be sure to understand the nuances of your cards before using them in a spell.)
š0 The Fool: Wiping the slate clean, a fresh start. Opening oneself to new experiences and knowledge.
šI The Magician: Manifestation and invocation. Energy work. Personal capability. Utilizing the power already within you and bringing it to the surface.
šII The High Priestess: Secrets. Hide and obscure knowledge to others. Increased intuition. Knowledge of the occult. Learn other peopleās hidden knowledge while keeping yours under wraps.
šIII The Empress: Fertility and abundance. Vibrancy, nurturing. Also to some degree, sensuality and sexiness.
šIV The Emperor: Strength and stability. Generic masculine power. Traditionalism.
šV The Hierophant: Jobs, mentorship and other positions that require some level of conformity. Traditional knowledge, coming more from a dogma or set path rather than a personal experience.
šVI The Lovers: Love (obviously,) union, harmony between two people. But mostly love.
šVII The Chariot: Success, motivation, overcoming any nasty obstacle. Personal power working with outside powers for your benefit.
šVIII Justice: Pretty self explanatory. Justice, getting what one deserves for better or worse. Could also be used as an aid to help guide you to the best decision when stuck at a crossroads.
šIX The Hermit: Knowledge latent within oneself that you want to bring to the surface. Cutting ties between yourself and people/groups that no longer benefit you. Any spell designed to get people to stay away from you (but warning here, the Hermit doesnāt discriminate between the people you still want to see and those you donāt!)
šX Wheel of Fortune: Luck, a change of fate. Finding oneās true calling/destiny. A request of a long-term type of success.
šXI Strength: Emotional strength, mastery of emotions, self-control. Resilience and courage.
šXII The Hanged Man: Release of unwanted emotions, new perspectives. In a curse or hex setting, it can also be used to represent someone who has been traitorous, especially in decks with a more traditional art style.
šXIII Death: Can be used to represent death during rituals such as a dumb supper. Important endings, rebirth, shedding the skin of the past. Hard cutoffs.
šXIV Temperance: Balance, cleansing, a restoration of energies as they should be. Healing.
šXV The Devil: Addictive negativity. All things bad in life that can be avoided, but are easy to slip into. Can be used to sic this on someone else in a powerful hex, or can be used as a representation of your own demons as you break free from them.
šXVI The Tower: Another card thatās particularly good for offense magic. Sudden, unexpected crisis. A destruction of what one has been working for. Upheaval. Could also be used to try and protect oneself as much as possible from this before it happens, if you sense trouble ahead.
šXVII The Star: Hope, guidance, generosity. Can be used when searching for a sign for something or for a pathway to be illuminated.
šXVIII The Moon: Mystery, emotional/spiritual fog, being stuck in a grey area. Illusion, hiding/obscuring yourself or something else. Could be used as a more gentle hex to weaken somebody without wrecking them like some of the other cards. Alternatively, it could be used to represent the literal moon, as either a replacement (if you canāt access the moon) or as a way to draw down the moonās power.
šXIX The Sun: Recharging, success, vitality and enlightenment. Celebration. A powerful source of positive and productive energies, but without a lot of direction on its own. Similarly to The Moon, it could also be used as a representation of the literal Sun.
šXX Judgement: Guidance in making tough decisions. Luck or good fortune in the final stages of something important. Reaping the benefits (or punishments, so be careful) of our work up to this point.
šXXI The World: Harmony, tying up loose ends. Completeness and wholeness. Resolution of all conflict.
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