#tarots reading

❤️Hi! First of all, there are no lame questions when it comes about learning something new. So don’t worry or feel ashamed, but ask away, my friend. I’ll always be happy to help, if I can.

I have some trouble answering this, because I’ve never used oracle decks. But I started to practice cartomancy using a deck that in Italy we call “Sybils”, which are what comes closest to oracle cards, I guess. And they do work in a different way than tarots, so I’ll use them as an example in order to answer your question.

🔮  differences between oracles and tarots 🔮

I must say that the ultimate purpose of tarots is not telling the future. This may go against popular beliefs, but the meaning of tarots revolves around the discovery of self. Tarots guide us in the journey of life, they help us understand where we stand and the direction towards we’re moving. The fact that we are able to predict specific events of our life thanks to them is just what I call a side effect. Tarots are very enigmatic and abstruse. They are hard to understand, the figures represented on each card is complex and full of references and links to esoteric knowledge. But it’s that kind of hermeticism that gets you understand and unveil the mystery beyond destiny and universe and life. It’s really hard to explain, mostly because of my not-very-good English, but I hope you got what I meant.

The Sybils work in a more specific way instead. Sybils in particular are considered “gossip-y”, which is a definition that I love because in the end that’s really what they are. I predicted love affairs, quarrels between roommates, and other silly things. So, for the way I see it, they are more like a funny little game, although I deeply believe in the accuracy of what they say.

As for the methods of reading, I don’t think there are significant differences between tarots’ spreads and oracles’ spreads, but that is just my humble opinion.

This is one of the most frequent questions people usually asked me. The thirteenth card of the Major Arcans is the one that people fear the most, and I do not blame them. In fact, it has been always considered a bad omen, probably due to the representation itself: a skeleton, sometimes riding a horse, sometimes wielding a sickle, with a less-than-reassuring look. In some decks, the card doesn’t even carry a name, making it ever more scary. No wonder that everyone always freaks out!

Despite what you can get from the surface, Death has actually a deeper meaning that yes, can be frightening, but not in the way you think. To explain better what I mean, I’ll start with a question: what is essentially death?

Death is a transformation. You as an entity stop being a material manifestation and turn into a spiritual one. You leave the world as you know it, and enter a new dimension. Death is the ultimate, biggest, change that a being can experience. Now, changing can be scary. You go through a transformation where all the things that were important before, do not matter anymore. In the logic of the circle of life, this transformation is both the end of everything and the start of something new. And when you start a new path, especially something so definitive as dying is, it’s normal to feel afraid.

So, in the end, it’s not physical death the message this card wants to give you. This not-so.funny skeleton is just there to remind you that changes are inevitable and necessary, most of the time. Sometimes they happen easily, and that’s what the upright reading stands for. Sometimes they are painful and hard to accept, as the reversed meaning suggests. But life is about dynamism, after all. And you can’t spend it all in the same mental and physical place.

You’ve got to move!  💀