Tarot Quotes

“I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”
― Steven Wright

“This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.”
― H Raven Rose, Shadow Selves

“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

“It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.”
― Charles Williams

“The cards give you images and symbols to focus your vague intentions and transform them into action. Your will is the magic. In other words, you are the magic. If you can create something in your heart and then act on it to make it happen, that is magic. Very simple, very straightforward—no witches, no spells, and no broomsticks.”
― Theresa Francis-Cheung, Teen Tarot: What the Cards Reveal About You and Your Future

“If you don't feel you have any choice in a situation, self-esteem and confidence plummet. But once you understand that you do have a choice, self-esteem will improve. You aren't a helpless victim anymore. You decide how you deal with a situation. You aren't just reacting to life; you're creating your life.”
― Theresa Francis-Cheung, Teen Tarot: What the Cards Reveal About You and Your Future

“Divination is the quest to understand more about the past, present, and future. In other words, Tarot readings are an attempt to understand ourselves better and discover how we might live better in the future.”
― Theresa Francis-Cheung, Teen Tarot: What the Cards Reveal About You and Your Future

“Tarot and dreams are two dialects in the language of the soul.”
― Philippe St Genoux

“When you drop the idea of predicting the future, you start to experience the cards as a mirror of the psyche. That`s when playing with the tarot becomes a path to wisdom.”
― Philippe St Genoux

“Tarot doesn`t predict the future. Tarot facilitates it.”
― Philippe St Genoux

“A lot of people think that the tarot is about being psychic and getting so-called psychic powers.
Actually,the original meaning of psyche is soul.
So the real power of the tarot is that it can help you to live your psyche, your soul, with more creativity, more awareness, more imagination,more clarity, more understanding and more joy.”
― Philippe St Genoux

“As the poet plays with words, the musician with sounds and the painter with colours, so the tarotist plays with the interaction of tarot cards and the psyche.”
― Philippe St Genoux

“The tarot is an outer oracle of which the inner oracle is the source”
― Philippe St Genoux

“Magic is what happens when the blueprint of who you are comes into the alignment with the expanding energy of the universe.”
― Sasha Graham, The Magic of Tarot: Your Guide to Intuitive Readings, Rituals, and Spells

“You’re not somebody’s maybe. You're someone’s absofuckinglutely”
― Cardsy B., The Saturn Diaries: A Modern Day Grimoire

“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”
― Arthur Edward Waite

“A tarot reading is a synchronistic conversation that employs deliberately random use of archetypal artwork to open up possibilities, create self-awareness and explore potentialities in the lives of the participants. Plus, it`s a lot of fun.”
― Philippe St Genoux

“Shame doesn't heal people if it did, we'd have a much healthier society.”
― Cardsy B., The Saturn Diaries: A Modern Day Grimoire

“I always thought Source/ the Universe/ my Higher Self would sound like a firm British lady or maybe Morgan Freeman. But this just sounded like a calmer and more confident version of myself. Maybe that’s why it was so hard to hear, let alone trust, when I hadn’t felt calm or confident in a really long time.”
― Cardsy B., The Saturn Diaries: A Modern Day Grimoire

“When you actually know the question, the answer is every­where, and you can see it in anything you observe.”
― Lon Milo DuQuette, Book Of Ordinary Oracles: Use Pocket Change, Popsicle Sticks, a TV Remote, this Book, and More to Predict the Future and Answer Your Questions

“It is idle to say there is no such garden. Everyone recognises the same nostalgia... Paradise is neither a moment nor a place; it is a condition. So when the lover calls to his or her beloved to come into the garden, it is, in the final implication, a summons to overcome to human condition.”
― Richard Cavendish, The Tarot

“I'm not superstitious. I don't believe in knocking on wood, or crossing fingers, or crystal gazing, or any of that. I don't think the cards have any special occult power, though I'm not sure I'd say that outright to a client. But they do ...' She found herself struggling to articulate something she rarely dissected, event o herself. 'They do still have meaning - even if you know nothing about tarot, you can see the richness of the symbolism and the imagery. The ideas they represent ... they're universal forces that bear on all our lives. I suppose what I believe is not that the cards can tell you anything you don't already know, or that they have magical answers to your questions, but that they give you ... they give you the space to question ...? Does that make sense? Whether the statements I make in a reading are true or false, they give the sitter an opportunity to reflect on those forces, to analyze their instincts. I don't know if I'm explaining this right.”
― Ruth Ware, The Death of Mrs. Westaway

“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

“You lay a few cards down in a particular order, each representing a big idea, and then you get to decide how it relates to you.

And the more you're in a position where you want the cards to have more meaning, the more meaning you give them.

I definitely had moments where I realized things about myself using the cards, but I've had moment where I realized something about myself answering a Buzzfeed quiz.

It's the same thing. The person provides the meaning.”
― James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 2: The City Upon a Hill

“The person provides the personal meaning, but society and history give them deeper meaning.

That's how an idea becomes something more than an idea. How it hooks into our subconscious mind.

The pamphlet in your Vampire Tarot didn't decide that the wand is a phallus. The fact that a wand looks like a big fucking cock did that.

When you make the connection, you give something meaning, and when millions of people make a connection over time, that meaning deepens.”
― James Tynion IV

“Okay, so you start with a symbol, then you add in ceremony. The idea the wand is the symbol of the cock, which we use to create life.

Some fucking caveman shaman starts carrying around a big stick because he's smarter than the other cavemen and he's the one who can tell the what things mean.

Now Harry Potter's running around with a little dick in his hand shooting out magic cum, and that image carries all the meaning of all those ten thousand years of history and connections.

It's a shortcut that connects you to a larger continuum of symbolism and ritual.

Different societies had different beliefs. . . . But in the end, there were still common symbols with shared meanings. Like the Sun, or water . . . or a big fucking juicy cock.”
― James Tynion IV

“Achieving absolute certainty can become your superpower. Once achieved, there is nothing that can stop you from obtaining your goals. You would never experience doubt if you knew for certain that everything would work out in the end. Simply knowing that your brilliant ideas come directly from the Light of the Creator should give you all the certainty you need.”
― Grant Isaac, The Tarot Decoded: Raziel's Interpretation

“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 not about predicting the future; it's a tool for reflection, offering us a mirror to our inner selves and guiding our journey through the mystery of life.”
― Tarot Master Roger, Straight Up Tarot: No Curves Needed

“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