 The basic symbols of this card are an angel – often female, and sometimes genderless, a pool of water or a river, two cups with fluid flowing between them. This is a difficult card to interpret, and is about blending of opposites, and achieving synthesis. This card symbolizes moderation, temperance, patience, harmony, fusion, good influence, and confidence; and in reverse stands for discord, conflict, disunion, hostility, frustration, and impatience.
The story progresses with the Fool continuing on his spiritual path, wondering how to reconcile the two opposites – material and spiritual, and death and birth. He comes upon an angel standing with one foot in the river and one on a rock, pouring fluid from one cup into the other. On drawing nearer, the Fool realizes that from one cup flows water, whereas from the other flows fire. Astonished, the Fool asks how could fire and water blend. The Angel answers that the right vessels and the right proportions are required. All opposites, be it fire and water, man and woman, thesis and anti-thesis, can be blended to harmonize.
For the Querent, this card is a warning to temper his behavior, a reminder that the irreconcilable opposites can be reconciled.
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Tarot readings using tarot cards is a tool used by people to help get answers or advice in the form of divination by tarot cards. There are 78 cards in a Tarot deck. These 78 cards are divided into two parts - the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana. Each card represents a different meaning. The Major Arcana cards relate to the journey of life and life lessons, while the Minor Arcana are representative of daily life and relate to the cards of an ordinary playing card deck. The Tarot is often used in psychic readings as a tool for getting clarification.
There are many therapeutic uses of Tarot, especially by using of its images. Many people are turning proactive and are considering ways to incorporate Tarot into some fitness program or the other. Today, there are two distinct Tarot schools of thought – the divinatory, and the therapeutical. Where the divinatory Tarot is used to foretell the future – so to say, the therapeutic Tarot helps reveal and explain the psychological blocks, emotional blocks, fears, and behavior patterns. The behavior patterns impede an individual’s full realization, and the therapeutic Tarot offers guidance to resolve this and other factors. 