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Reader
Someone skilled in the practice of reading the Tarot to answer questions and give guidance to querents.
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Significator
One of the Court Cards or Major Arcana chosen, and for some layouts separated from the deck, to represent the querent.
Spread
See LAYOUT.
Suit
One of four divisions of a deck of cards characterized by its own particular symbol. In the Tarot, those symbols are usually Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles.
Swords
One of the four suits of the Minor Arcana, identified with the air element, associated with energy, action, intellect, the conscious mind, violence, disappointments, sorrow, judgments, and opinions. Identified with the spade suit of modern playing cards, and also called blades, epées, lightning, lasers, and other similar designations, depending on the deck.
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Tarot
A collection of 78 pictures representing ancient and universal archetypes organized in the form of a deck of cards, used to gain insights into psychology, metaphysics, and foretelling the future. Its origins are lost in antiquity, but its current form originated in the Middle Ages.
Tree of Life
A Kabbalistic symbol, a grid resembling a tree, each branch of which ends in one of the ten Sephiroth. (See SEPHIROTH above.) Some Tarot readers use a layout in the shape of the Tree of Life, placing a card in the position of each Sephira and interpreting it by blending the meaning of the Sephira with the meaning of the card.
Trumps
The twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana.

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