What is Tarot?

🃏 What Is Tarot?

A mirror for the soul. A conversation with your higher self. A roadmap of energy in motion.

Tarot is a sacred tool of divination and self-reflection that uses a deck of 78 cards to explore the energy around you—past, present, and potential. It’s not about predicting a fixed future. It’s about tuning into guidance that already lives within you, and translating it through archetypes, symbols, and intuition.

Think of Tarot as a spiritual GPS: it doesn’t make decisions for you, but it shows the energetic terrain you’re moving through—and what’s waiting for you if you stay on your current path.

🌀 What Makes Up a Tarot Deck?

A traditional Tarot deck contains:

✨ The Major Arcana (22 cards)

These are the big soul themes—life lessons, karmic shifts, and spiritual initiations.
Cards like The Fool, The High Priestess, and Death speak to powerful energetic moments of growth and transformation.

✨ The Minor Arcana (56 cards)

These cover the everyday stuff—emotions, thoughts, actions, and challenges. Broken into four suits:

  • Cups (Water): Emotions, intuition, relationships
  • Pentacles (Earth): Career, money, body, home
  • Swords (Air): Thoughts, communication, conflict
  • Wands (Fire): Passion, creativity, action, desire

Each suit has court cards (Page, Knight, Queen, King) that reflect aspects of self or other people influencing your path.

🔮 What Is Tarot Used For?

  • Gaining clarity on a situation or relationship
  • Understanding patterns, blocks, or emotional themes
  • Exploring your shadow self and soul lessons
  • Receiving intuitive nudges from your higher self, guides, or ancestors
  • Pairing with rituals, moon phases, or manifestation work
  • Making aligned decisions and navigating transitions

Tarot doesn’t give you the answer—it helps you ask the right questions.

🧿 How Does Tarot Work?

Tarot taps into your subconscious mind and universal energy. The cards you pull reflect:

  • Your current energetic frequency
  • The emotional or spiritual lesson you’re working through
  • The guidance you’re ready to receive (even if you didn’t ask for it)

It’s not about luck or fate—it’s about resonance.

🕯️ How to Read Tarot (Intuitively)

  1. Ground yourself + set an intention
  2. Ask a question (open-ended is best)
  3. Shuffle and draw cards
  4. Interpret the symbolism—look at the imagery, colors, numbers, and your gut feeling
  5. Reflect on how the message applies to your life
  6. Journal, act, or ritualize what comes through

Tip: You don’t need to memorize all the meanings. Let your intuition be the translator.

💫 Tarot vs. Oracle Cards

  • Tarot = structured, consistent system (great for deeper dives + patterns)
  • Oracle = more free-form, themed, and intuitive (great for quick messages + emotion-led insight)

Both are beautiful tools—and can even be used together in rituals or healing sessions.

🌙 Want to Go Deeper?

At Équilibre and within Cosmic Revival, we will soon be offering:
✨ Tarot card pulls for moon phases or shadow work
✨ Custom spreads for past life, purpose, or healing
✨ Upcoming: Cosmic Revival Tarot + Oracle decks
✨ Workbooks with Tarot journaling prompts + ritual layouts