Understanding Tarot Spread Illustrations

The use of tarot cards is a very interesting dimension of the occult. Basically associated with the gypsies, this is an amazing portal through which you can catch a glimpse of your past, present or future as you per your desire. The tarot spread illustrations are not only vivid and eye catching, but also adept storytellers of bits and pieces of your life. For the beginner, interpreting what the tarot cards are saying can be a daunting task. Though you can find the meaning of each card easily on the Internet or with the help of books, a reading is more than just calling out what each card means.
Each detail of the tarot spread illustrations has a story to tell; each element projects the past, present or future with spectacular accuracy, provided you know how to read it. The question therefore, is how to learn to read these illustrations correctly. Since there is no best or preferred tarot card spread, this question is quite difficult to answer. Veteran psychics choose their spreads according to their feelings at the particular moment when they are requested for a reading. Some, develop expertise in one particular spread such as the Celtic Cross, and use it exclusively for all readings. The ability of you recognizing and interpreting the tarot cards correctly depends mainly on two major factors: (1) experience, and (2) intuition or psychic ability.
When you speak of experience, this is something you draw on as the years pass by. Every reading that you do, adds to the overall lesson because no two readings would ever mean the same. The tarot spread illustrations say a different tale every time you cast them as your attention would be drawn involuntarily to different aspects of the spread, as the case may be. With time, your tuning to your inner self would grow stronger allowing you to "feel" what the cards are trying to tell you. Many excellent psychics felt that in the beginning they were not attuned well enough to their sixth sense and therefore were unable to "see" the predictions accurately. The time that it takes to accept and draw upon these powers, depend from person to person. While for some it may be a short 2-3 year period, others take decades before they come into their elements.
The intuition is important because this is what actually tells the story, not the cards. The latter are just a means to an end. Anyone can lay a Celtic Cross spread and read out the meaning of each card. However, this is not the whole story; often, this would not even be the tip of the iceberg. The intuition is what makes the psychic understand the language of cards and translate it for you. The tarot spread illustrations is nothing but a fun game, without the sixth sense of the psychic. This is the hidden ingredient, which is able to draw the complete and accurate picture from a spread.
Nobody says it is easy to be a psychic; on the other hand, it is not too difficult either. If you have these two basic ingredients, nothing can stop you from becoming a successful psychic.
Craig Malone is a writer for SpiritNow.com. Visit SpiritNow.com, the online home of America's Top Psychic, Sylvia Browne. Get a psychic reading for free at SpiritNow.com.

Love Matches With Love Chinese Astrology

Founded on the blend of Yin and Yang and the Five Elementals, Chinese Astrology is a way of finding out the future and finding your love matches. The five elemental signs are fire, metal, water, wood, and earth. The signs of the Chinese Zodiac are Rat, Cow, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. Chinese astrology is much older than Western Astrology. It is fun to use love Chinese Astrology guides.
The Zodiac signs represent instead of the twelve months like Western Astrology a twelve year time span. The twelve animals were believed to be chosen by Buddha and supposedly, each represent a quality that all animals possess. Chinese Astrology has many different kinds of love kinds, but the most commonly used is the fast match.
Chinese Astrology can use its Zodiac to match up compatible people with their signs. In the fast match the exact date of birth date, month, day, and year are matched with that of the person of interest. The chart then takes the dates and matches it up and tells you your compatibility based on each of your signs.
The animals rule in ranking order for twelve years then start over. The pattern began again in 2008 with Rat followed by Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. So, if you were born in February or after of 1996 then you are a Rat. Each animal is placed in an affinity group and an affinity pair. The affinity group is divided into four groups and they are listed as follows: Ox, Snake, and Rooster; Tiger, Horse, and Dog; Rat, Dragon, and Monkey; and Rabbit, Goat, and Pig. There are six affinity pairs: Rat and Ox, Tiger and Pig; Rabbit and Dog; Dragon and Rooster; Snake and Monkey; and Horse and Goat. Your most compatible match is found in the affinity groups and your second most compatible is your affinity pair.
Now, that you know your sign you can match up. There are groups that each sign falls into for compatibility. These are affinity groups and affinity pairs. The affinity group is where you find your best match. These groups are Ox, Snake, and Rooster; Tiger, Horse, and Dog; Rat, Dragon, and Monkey; and Rabbit, Goat, and Pig. The affinity pairs are pairs that you look into for your second best match. These are Rat and Ox; Tiger and Pig; Rabbit and Dog; Dragon and Rooster; Snake and Monkey; and Horse and Goat. One more group to consider is the clashing signs group. These are signs that are very incompatible matches. These are the pairs: Rat and Horse; Ox and Goat; Tiger and Monkey; Rabbit and Rooster; Dragon and Dog; and Snake and Pig. Signs that are not listed together in any group and you want to know the compatibility of, well, the easiest way is just to find out about each personality. That should help.
When looking into the love Chinese Astrology this is fun to take into account. The signs are based on personality traits, but it is not always accurate. Even people with clashing signs have ended up being very compatible couples. This is a fun way to find out a side of the personality of the person you are interested in.
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Free Psychic Readings by Phone

With free psychic readings by phone you can learn what your limitations are; what restricts you in your growth and life. You will have learned where you stand in the world, and how you have unlimited achievements and goals to reach.

Check this, Obama's astrology chart gives a portrait of an individual with not only a heightened sense of integrity, truth, honor, and idealism, but also the intelligence, common sense know-how, and the inner flame to drive him forward through these dark times that we all find ourselves in. This insightful information could have been received with a free psychic reading by phone. Quite honestly, the American people haven't seen a presidential candidate with Obama's potential for greatness in far too long.

When one is in a state of uncertainty regarding compatibility for love, it is popular for people who trust in astrology to consult with an astrologist via a free psychic reading by phone, to give an accurate reading for their particular zodiac sign. With a general margin of error, and some variation in results, one may receive these results with optimism and encouragement, and rightfully so.

Even though emotions are genuine, I say this because you don't want the emotion to overrule your spiritual aspect and short-circuit the positive thoughts that can keep you moving forward into your potential. You are always in a state of Divine potential, which makes anything possible as long as you remain focused and in a state of faith, or believing.

Free psychic readings can give you the strength to believe along with the faith to remain in the state of Divine potential that will help keep you moving in the right direction.

Using the Moon to Bring You the Success You Know You Deserve

Working with your Moon

It gives me great pleasure to present these 'instructions' and ask that you use them to bring about whatever it is you want from your life. Before I do so can I offer the following information for your consideration.

To give a brief explanation: the Moon points to a basic emotional need. Remember this, for it will help you understand your needs rather than your wants. For example: Moon in Cancer gives the emotional need for home and family, in Taurus for roots and stability. These are needs and when understood can help cope with those moments of depression (which the Moon also rules) when your needs are not being met. Have you ever wanted something and couldn't afford it yet bought it anyway? This is your Sun sign talking to you (the Sun rules the ego). Have you ever felt absolutely happy with your lot in life? This is the Moon talking to you for she is supplying your needs. Sure, they'll always be fluctuations (we all know about the phases of the Moon) but once you understand your needs versus your wants they will always be met. In understanding this know in your heart that the Moon will always supply whatever it is you need.

On or near the New Moon you need to do some 'imagining.' First of all consider the following: Are we the master's of our own fate or, mere actor's playing to a script written long before we were born? Remember: A person's inner development and growth is subject to his or her own free will and your attitude to things 'inner' is the first step in mastering outside events for it's not what happens to you it's how you react to them. Know it or not we're all born to a certain predestined set of outside circumstances (a jockey for example would not make a good basketball player and vice versa) that we can master by our inner attitude. This can and does bring positive or negative reactions.

By changing our inner attitude we can bring about changes in our outer conditions. This is a fact of life we must never, never forget. Your state of being attracts into your life whatever you dwell upon. If you think negative you will attract negative. If you think positive you will attract positive, there is no other way. Another example: a stove is built for cooking, but what gets cooked is a matter of choice. Look at your Sun Sign for if you are a Pisces there's no point in trying to be a Sagittarian for the structure is different. Sure, you can incorporate certain Sagittarian traits but you are still a Pisces (or whatever sign you are). "You are who you are."

The New Moon is all about 'emergence' and soon you will surface from the dark into the light with no idea as to what is in store for you yet, possessing an inner confidence of knowing that whatever lies ahead is meant for you. Do not attempt to make things happen nor judge what is happening to you. Accept the experience of your 'birth.' The following should be your one thought for the day: I am what I am and what is meant for me will not go past me. I accept all that is given to me no matter what it may be for the universe gives not one 'gram' more of what I am capable of carrying. Consider the word emergency and where it came from for the New Moon is all about urgency, a quickening and a new beginning. This is the 1st step on your journey towards life and living.

As you move through the days until the 1st quarter passing through the crescent phase to the 1st quarter you'll be laying the GROUNDWORK and putting into action whatever you come to realise needs to be done. In laying the groundwork take a few moments to briefly review the past. Don't dwell upon the past but realise it brought you to where you are now. It's time to recognise this link and to assert your individuality. Learn from the past and from what you have learnt apply this wisdom to the future, for these days are 'future-oriented' yet you must still retain a consideration of the past. In living these few days, in accepting whatever they bring you, in acknowledging all that is happening to you is meant for you, an 'emergence' an idea or, a pathway to the future will reveal itself.

At the first quarter ACTION is the keyword. Whatever you've come to realise over the past few days you must put into action. This is a crisis or quickening phase and there'll be some pain experienced if you've not laid the groundwork or, a goal ahead to be reached if you have.
No matter, there'll be an urge to act, to do something, to say something, to go somewhere so become aware of the consequences of your actions for the next phase will tell you.

The Gibbous Moon (when the moon is almost full) is when you're in the most CREATIVE or HAPPENING phase. Whatever you've set in motion will either bring you fulfillment or, your own undoing. The emphasis now is on self-expression in full awareness of the consequences of your actions. Life will either open its doors for you or shut them in your face! Whatever happens NOW is happening as a result of what YOU have set in motion, no one else.

The Full Moon brings into MANIFESTATION your motivations of the previous days. This is a time of tremendous tension for it contains the rewards or punishment of your actions. If all goes according to plan there'll be fruition and culmination or, a collapse and disintegration. No matter, the Full Moon represents the halfway mark to this cycle.

We've all heard about the craziness of the Full Moon, now you know why.

As you move through the next few days you'll experience the Disseminating Moon. These are the days when you must attempt some SYNTHESIS of what you've experienced. If you've experienced some success or fulfillment you'll now find yourself looking at the 'bigger picture' and what you have to offer. Realising there is a future and to bring all the elements of your success together in such a way that their value is not transitory, but can have lasting meaning. If, on the other hand, nothing has come together and you've experienced some disintegration then it'll be necessary to pick up the pieces, to say you're sorry, to forgive yourself for getting it wrong and sew your life back together again in the expectancy of the next New Moon.

No matter what you've experienced, this phase is one of combining all the good and bad, all the elements of happiness and sadness, of elation and disappointment and making it whole. In essence, putting your life back together again or living your life in the full light of your achievements (whatever they may be).

The last or third quarter is the phase of AWARENESS. Whatever you have endured or enjoyed must now be put aside in light of an ending taking place, a time to let go. No matter what you've accomplished or encountered over the past few weeks these days are about letting go, to have faith that you'll have more, not less. This can be and often is a difficult time if you've enjoyed some measure of fulfillment but a joyous time if you've experienced disintegration, for the old must make way for the young. These few days are days of reorientation, requiring from you an act of faith in the future for unless you have faith you are lost.

As you move from the last quarter to the New Moon you'll experience what's called the Balsamic Moon and the keyword is RELEASE. This is a time to prepare yourself for the New Moon when you can begin again to build or re-build your life from whatever you've experienced over the past few weeks. The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end. All is cyclic and the New Moon brings you back to where you were, giving you the chance to begin all over again, to build an even better life in light of what you've experienced. Or, to make amends and begin all over again with a little more determination based upon what you've come to understand about your inner self for its not what happens to you its how you react to it.

It's been my pleasure to present these 'instructions' for you and wish you well in bringing about whatever you want from your life for know it or not it's always going on. Only now, you can become conscious of it and apply it to your life and in a very short space of time you'll begin to notice that your 'outside' world will be taking shape according to your 'inside' world of awareness. I sincerely hope in your awareness of the above that you benefit in the shortest time possible, remembering you'll only get out what you put in. Don't have any set ideas or wishes, dreams, hopes or aspirations, just become more aware of what's going on 'within' you and 'without' you for in becoming more spiritual is no more than becoming more aware.