Meaning Of Each Tarot Card – Major Arcana Overview Summary

Hello Folks! After I completed my first series: “the meaning of each tarot card – major arcana overview”, I thought it might be much more useful, if you don’t have to switch between the different parts. That’s why I decided to give you a short summary with all the informations of the series!

If you haven’t read the separate parts before, I’d like to give you an advise that I’ve wrote before: the description of the meaning of each card sums up the most common associations and opinion, depending on the question, situation and spread you use, they might also mean something totally different! You can use this overview to get a quick idea of the meaning, but no guide can substitute your own mind and intuition.

• The Fool: He’s on the way to new beginnings with endless possibilities but comes with a warning: if you daydream to much, you might stumble and fall.
• The Magician: Creation by willpower and desire. The mental image of what you want to achieve. Revelation.
• High Priestess: Knowledge. Revelation of a secret.
• The Empress: The creation of something. Making something real.
• The Emperor: Energy and enthusiasm, but also demanding and impatient.
• The Hierophant: traditional education, the teaching of heaven to earth and the religion itself. Also associated with advise from a friend or teacher (but not necessarily the truth!). Some assume, the teacher forms the asking one to his likings.
• The Lovers: the impulse, that send one “out of the garden”. Can be sexual desire as well as a duty or the wish to go on an adventure. Once one leaves the garden, there is no turning back.
• The Chariot: a battle or conquest that one can win, if he has the qualities (like willpower for example). The Battle is usually an external challenge.
• Strenght: inner discipline and control. While The Chariot represents an external challenge, Strenght usually means an internal struggle with desires, impulses or negative traits like anger of pride.
• The Hermit: On the one hand the need to isolate oneself to internalize a lesson. On the other hand the need to share ones knowledge with others.
• Wheel Of Fortune: Sudden (and often unexpected) change in life, a turning point, development.
• Justice: objective mind, logic, rationality and intellect. But also responsibility and criticism.
• The Hanged Man: Personal loss for a greater good. But also getting a new point of view.
• Death: Among the cards, Death is one of the most difficult to interpret. Some possibilities are: the ending of a cycle and the beginning of a new one, transformation and sometimes the price one has to pay for something. (Note: The Death does not represent the physical process of dying!)
• Temperance: Something (depends on what the question is) needs to be moderated. Other meaning could be: balance, recovery and synthesis.
• The Devil: Something (maybe a habit, decision or idea, depends on the question) prevents one from developing. If representing a person The Devil might stand for negative traits or someone powerful.
• The Tower: The Tower struck by lightning might represent a catastrophe and ruin. Often structures, beliefs and ideas are targeted by this negative change.
• The Star: the positive regeneration of both the material and the spiritual world. It can mean hope, inspiration and a renewal of forces.
• The Moon: On the one hand it represents hidden enemies, falsehood and lack of clarity. On the other hand it can also mean inspiration from the unconsciousness. The Moon is often associated with sleep, good dreams and nightmares.
• The Sun: a positive card which represents the clarity of mind, enlightenment, enthusiasm and happiness.
• The Judgment: it can represent an important decision as well as the return of something from the past (usually in context with a new beginning and clearing out the past).
• The World: completeness, everything at once and the gap between the end of an old cycle and a new one.

That’s it folks – I’d like to hear about your experiences with this overview, if you’ like to share them! Be sure to come back once in a while, I’m planning to write an overview over the meaning of each tarot card of the minor arcana as well!