What is The Tarot Meaning of Playing Cards?

There is a theory that today's tarot cards developed from what we now call playing cards in the country that is now India.  As you may have guessed the tarot started with the Gypsies but you may not have known that the Gypsies originally came from India!  Therefore there is a tarot meaning to each playing card!  Although its not a common practice you can read playing cards rather than reading the tarot.  Really its just another form of divination but its also one of the oldest forms of divination that is still commonly used today.  Here are some of the very basics of the tarot meaning to the playing cards.

• Suit of Clubs - energy, growth, enterprise
• Suit of Spades - intellect, courage, aggression
• Suit of Diamonds - material wealth, money, practicality
• Suit of Heart - emotions, love, beauty

• Ace - beginnings
• Two - balance, choices, duality
• Three - growth or expression
• Four - containment, no outlet
• Five - minor conflict, uncertainties
• Six - formation of certainties
• Seven - achievement, abilities developed  
• Eight - movement towards goal
• Nine - culmination, reckoning  
• Ten - completion, end of cycle
• Jack - travel or movement
• Queen - growth and development
• King - motivation

The way to use this tarot meaning  chart, for example would be to take a two of hearts, in looking at the chart the tarot meaning of this playing card is emotions, love, beauty, balance, choices, and duality, a good way to interpret that would be to say that the two of  hearts means to bring balance and duality into your love live and emotions which will be created by choices and influenced by beauty.   Another example of this would be a jack of clubs.  In looking at the chart above you will see that combined the two mean energy, growth, enterprise, and travel or movement.  If in a reading this card would be read as positive energies creating growth and movement in your enterprise, or it could be read as travel or growth in your work, if you wanted to put it in a simpler term.  After studying the chart above you should be able to do a tarot reading using your playing cards and with the exception of the major arcana you will have a basic understanding to tarot meaning in general.

So although it may seem difficult to find the tarot meaning in regular playing cards, its actually quite easy.  In fact the only thing that your missing is the major arcana which wasn't introduced until tarot cards were created.  Some people do still read the playing cards but its not a common practice any more.  Learning the tarot meaning to playing cards will allow you to practice an old form of divination!