Tarot Cards Quotes

“Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.”
― Jack Parsons

“Our work is to integrate and eventually transcend darkness and light altogether by holding them equally in a state of interconnection.”
― Sasha Graham, Dark Wood Tarot

“There is no one way. The is no one path. There is you, your cards, and your gift. That’s it. Read a lot. Watch other readers. Practice on your friends (and tell them that you’re practicing). You can figure out your style with some research and time. No worries. Remember, this is supposed to be fun. In tarot readings (and in all other things), please stop comparing yourself to other people. Compare yourself to yourself.”
― Melissa Cynova, Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Let's Talk Tarot

“Once upon a time, tarot reading was about discovering what your future held. These days tarot helps you craft exactly the future you desire.”
― Sasha Graham, The Magic of Tarot: Your Guide to Intuitive Readings, Rituals, and Spells

“Tea's like magic, man. I felt like I could slip a tea reading into a church potluck and everyone would be amused, as opposed to the horrified reaction I'd get slamming a deck of Tarot cards beside the green bean casserole.”
― J. W. Ocker

“The cards tell a story...but you write the ending.”
― Theresa Reed, Tarot: No Questions Asked—Mastering the Art of Intuitive Reading

“Intuition is not perfect. There is always room for misinterpretation. As you continue to practice, your instincts will get stronger. Like a muscle, instinct needs to be exercised regularly. The only way to become psychically fit is to work those intuitive muscles every day.”
― Theresa Reed, Tarot: No Questions Asked—Mastering the Art of Intuitive Reading

“Keep in mind that you also have control over your future! Life doesn't just happen to you and tarot isn't a passive act.”
― Theresa Reed, Tarot: No Questions Asked—Mastering the Art of Intuitive Reading

“A traditional tarot deck is composed of seventy-eight cards. You might encounter modern sets with extra cards. Frankly, I'm not a fan of those because I'm old skool.”
― Theresa Reed, Tarot: No Questions Asked—Mastering the Art of Intuitive Reading

“After many years of doing astrology and tarot, I fall somewhere in between the fate versus free will camp. I do believe some things are 'meant to be' and cannot be explained. In some cases, we can get a glimpse of the future. Other times, the Universe surprises you.”
― Theresa Reed, Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology and Tarot

“For all its modern glamour and for everything else that the Tarot has become, it had a fairly humble origin; it began as a simple pack of playing cards. No matter what use the Tarot is put to today, from psychological insight to divination to collectible folk art, it began and remains a card game. Trying to understand the Tarot without knowledge of this fact would be like trying to perform surgery without any knowledge of anatomy. In both cases, we end up with a mangled product.”
― Ben Hoshour, Origins of the Tarot's Minor Arcana: A Guidebook to the Ancestral Influences that Shaped the Tarot's Minor Arcana

“Flower’s evidentiary gymnastics beautifully illustrate the primary point I wish to make, which is that almost all of the Tarot’s acquired meaning has been derived from a foundation that has been shown to be lacking in both substance and truth. Furthermore, this pseudo-history has been promulgated ad infinitum from the late 18th century to the present day.”
― Ben Hoshour, Origins of the Tarot's Minor Arcana: A Guidebook to the Ancestral Influences that Shaped the Tarot's Minor Arcana

“Although Etteilla receives little credit in popular literature today, he can credited with many ‘firsts’': he was certainly the first to popularise fortune-telling with playing cards , the first to promote card reading as a professional activity and the first to publish books on the subject. He also was the first to use a pseudonym as a constant pen-name, initiating a tradition which was to flourish among XIX-oentury esoteric writers, as the following chapters will abundantly demonstrate. Thanks to Etteilla, Court de Gébelin's theory about the 'Egyptian' origin of the Tarot had a wider diffusion and fortune-telling with Tarot cards became popular. He was the first. too, to attempt to incorporate Tarot cards into a system of magical theory: his example, though not his means of doing so, was to be followed by others whose infuence has persisted longer.
Last but not least, he can be credited too with the invention of the very word cartomancie, or rather of its forerunner, ‘cartonomancie', which appeared in his writings from 1782. Amazingly, one of his disciples was about to publish a book on 'cartomancie' in 1789 (the first occurrence of such a word in a European language), but as the book is now lost we only know it from Etteilla's very critical review, rejecting this quite new and ‘illogical’ word to which he opposed his ‘better’ cartonomancie. Nevertheless, cartomancie took hold and its use spread. In 1803, it entered de Wailly’s French dictionary, and from these it has found its way into alnost all European languages,
Jean-Baptiste Alliette died on 12 December 1791. He was only 53, which is, even in the XVIII century, a rather young age at which to die, We unfortunately know nothing of what he died of. Etteilla was a fascinating character and deserves more than giving his name to a strange Tarot pack. There is something touching in the man, who was sincere and passionate, generous and enlightened (in all the meanings of the word in the late XVIII century.”
― Ronald Decker, A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot

“This passage, taken from Thomas Williams's doctoral thesis for the University of Alabama, very well illustrates what, sociologically regarded, Is the most interesting fact about the Tarot pack, namely that it is the subject of the most successful propaganda campaign ever launched, not by a very long way the most important, but the most completely successful. An entire false history, and false interpretation, of the Tarot pack was concocted by the occultists; and it is all but universally believed. For instance, save in so far as it is safeguarded by qualifications (themselves dubious) like ‘the majority view among occultists is that...’,every sentence in the foregoing quotation is untrue.”
― Ronald Decker, A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot

“Cards never lie, People do”
― Anujj Elviis

“Carl Jung proposed that everything in the universe is connected. [...] Every part is considered not in isolation but in relation to the whole. He asserted that everything that takes place at a particular moment of time has the qualities of that moment, and that all events taking place at the same time are connected. [...]

The fall of the I Ching's coins, the Tarot card spread or the fall of the runes are 'meaningful coincidences' that reflect present and future events.”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, Your Psychic Powers: A Beginner's Guide

“In Kabbalah, (the soul of Judaism), the wisdom of the four worlds is the foundation of Tarot. My personal suggestion is to study the Kabbalah as opposed to wanting quick answers from the Tarot card readers, who don't have an understanding of deep esoteric wisdom.”
― Serena Jade. Tarot, Soul Mates, Twin Flames, Kabbalah, Judaism,

“The cards are simply a tool, she says, and they should not be idolized, especially because they were given to us by a dead white man. “I’m sure he was as good as they’ll ever be, but he was still a colonizer and a businessman. Selling the cards as the only tool people could use to divinate and erasing the fact that many of us had been doing it very well without any tools at all,” she likes to remind me.”
― Lorraine Avila

“Tarot is the journey of the soul, a spiritual compass that illuminates our path, sparking understanding and transformation within ourselves.”
― Tarot Master Roger, Straight up Tarot: Single Parent Edition

“Tarot: Little White Book:
"Galadriel, the Elven queen, reflects the wisdom, foresight, and mystical power of the High Priestess. She offers guidance and insight to those who seek her, embodying the archetype of the spiritual guide and protector.”
― Elizabeth Goodwell

“Galadriel, the Elven queen, reflects the wisdom, foresight, and mystical power of the High Priestess. She offers guidance and insight to those who seek her, embodying the archetype of the spiritual guide and protector.”
― Elizabeth Goodwell, Tarot: Little White Book

“Hermione Granger from Harry Potter
- Hermione embodies strength through her intelligence, moral fortitude, and unwavering loyalty to her friends, facing dangers with bravery and a firm belief in doing what is right.”
― Elizabeth Goodwell

“Hermione Granger from “Harry Potter” - Hermione embodies strength through her intelligence, moral fortitude, and unwavering loyalty to her friends, facing dangers with bravery and a firm belief in doing what is right.”
― Elizabeth Goodwell, Tarot: Little White Book

“The Hermit: Doctor Strange from Marvel Comics - Doctor Strange’s journey from surgeon to Sorcerer Supreme, including his retreat into the study of the mystic arts, captures The Hermit’s search for deeper knowledge and the use of that knowledge for the greater good.”
― Elizabeth Goodwell, Tarot: Little White Book

“The relation of destiny with the cyclic process is implied in the figures of the legendary Tarot pack; the wealth of symbolic knowledge which is contained in each and every one of its cards is not to be despised, even if their symbolic significance is open to debate. For the illustrations of the Tarot afford clear examples of the signs, the dangers and the paths leading towards the infinite which Man may discover in the course of his existence.”
― Juan Eduardo Cirlot, A Dictionary of Symbols

“Every Tarot Card tells a story that helps you through your life's situations. Which story have your received today?”
― Nikita Dudani

“The Tarot is not about predicting the future — it's about revealing the truth your soul already knows. Intuition is the voice of your inner healer.”
― Leticia Mendez, TAROT GUIDE for Beginners: + Printable Tarot Deck

“It’s never just the card - it’s the placement that gives it a voice - Tarot Spreads That Speak.”
― Clarity Weaver, Tarot Spreads That Speak: A Guide to Crafting Layouts, Reading Intuitively, and Unlocking the Meaning Behind Every Position.

“The changing of work, which is duty, into play, is effected as a consequence of the presence of the “zone of perpetual silence”, where one draws from a sort of secret and intimate respiration, whose sweetness and freshness accomplishes the anointing of work and transforms it into play. [...] For silence is the sign of real contact with the spiritual world and this contact, in turn, always engenders the influx of forces. This is the foundation of all mysticism, all gnosis, all magic and all practical esotericism in general. All practical esotericism is founded on the following rule: it is necessary to be one in oneself (concentration without effort) and one with the spiritual world (to have a zone of silence in the soul) in order for a revelatory or actual spiritual experience to be able to take place.”
― Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism

“Divination” derives from
the Latin word divinatio, to
divine. Whatever the method,
when we do a divination we seek to
understand, in some small way, the spiritual
patterns that underlie our lives. Divination
systems, especially the more elaborate ones,
almost always reflect a religious or
philosophical system. We may read the Tarot
as a party game, but the game works because
the symbols on the Tarot cards describe the
deeper truths that give meaning to our lives.
And it works because the Tarot consists
of pictures rather than words. While it is true
that people have written hundreds of books
about the Tarot, and that most people who
want to use the cards in a reading look up
their meanings in a book such as this one,
the Tarot remains first and foremost pictures
- mysterious, evocative, suggestive of whole
worlds of meaning.”
― Rachel Pollack, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Tarot AND The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack