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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“The joker has no identity of its own. Instead, it becomes whatever it stands alongside.... There are people like that, who take on the identity of whomever they are with, and we tend to think of them as crazy--fou--and maybe that is the case. To be free of a fixed identity, of the illusion that our social personality is somehow the truth of who we are, is to achieve a spiritual freedom, the goal of much meditation, devotional prayer, and other practices. The trick is to stay free.”
― Rachel Pollack, Rachel Pollack's Tarot Wisdom: Spiritual Teachings and Deeper Meanings

“Backchannel Negotiation
by Stewart Stafford

I slumped out of the tarot parlour,
Drifted past the neon sandwich shop
with more than angel food for thought,
Replaying the revelation on a mind loop.

She said don't worry—which I did,
Everything I had dreamt or wanted
were my riches of decades past
on a distantly hazy New Year’s Eve.

That night, I chatted up a Hollywood starlet—
A shooting star rising across my eyeline—
Beautiful face and eyes, but acned skin,
It was her friend who drew my attention.

I began to leave, but sprang backwards—
A jack-in-the-box popping up for her number.
Marriage and two children flowed from there,
The sated universe hummed, the psychic said.

© 2026 Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The stigma is everywhere, even in our own tarot communities. How often have you come across books or social media posts asserting that tarot isn’t about predicting the future and cautioning against anyone who claims otherwise? They often argue that tarot is solely a tool for introspection and guidance. I beg to differ; it encompasses all of these facets. As someone who has worked as a professional psychic, medium, and tarot reader for many years, I’ve used tarot to guide both myself and many others in understanding potential future events and making informed decisions. I’ve also led many workshops teaching others how to harness their psychic abilities in tarot readings. The real caution should be against readings that present a predetermined future without choices. An adept tarot reader skillfully blends various techniques to offer readings that foster introspection, enhance self-awareness, and provide insights into potential future outcomes that are the most likely.”
― Mat Auryn, The Psychic Art of Tarot: Opening Your Inner Eye for More Insightful Readings

“Thus, fortune-telling essentially means you’re telling the chances of future events. It’s about anticipating potential outcomes based on the present energy flow rather than making fixed prophecies that can’t be changed.”
― Mat Auryn, The Psychic Art of Tarot: Opening Your Inner Eye for More Insightful Readings

“The lower self connects us with our animalistic nature. As physical beings, we experience sensations and emotions within our bodies. This inner dimension of ourselves enables direct interaction with it through our senses and emotions. The middle self, in contrast, represents our intellectual side. It processes patterns and information, as well as formulates thoughts and words.”
― Mat Auryn, The Psychic Art of Tarot: Opening Your Inner Eye for More Insightful Readings

“Then there is the higher self, the most abstract of the three. This aspect of ourselves surpasses both time and space’s limitations that bind our earthly incarnations. The higher self embodies our pure divine essence that remains unaltered throughout our lifetimes. This is the closest to the concept of “spirit” or “soul” in the mind of the average person.”
― Mat Auryn, The Psychic Art of Tarot: Opening Your Inner Eye for More Insightful Readings

“unconscious processing of sensory details in our environment, leading to a specific insight. In contrast, psychic abilities involve utilizing the clair senses, which operate independently of tangible environmental information.”
― Mat Auryn, The Psychic Art of Tarot: Opening Your Inner Eye for More Insightful Readings

“Consider intuition as the middle self interpreting messages from the lower self, which processes physical environmental information, while psychic abilities involve the middle self receiving wisdom and insight totally unrelated to information in one’s environment from the higher self through the clair senses.”
― Mat Auryn, The Psychic Art of Tarot: Opening Your Inner Eye for More Insightful Readings

“Exploring advanced tarot concepts helps us explore the cards’ deeper mysteries. This journey deepens our grasp of how tarot’s symbols relate to psychic truths and plunges us into a world of timeless wisdom and hidden meanings.”
― Mat Auryn, The Psychic Art of Tarot: Opening Your Inner Eye for More Insightful Readings

“Tarot has been a golden filament for me, intricately threading all the various aspects of my life together. It has served as a trusty conduit for a lifetime of intuitive self-care, and it has afforded me a mode of psychic connection to the collective unconscious and far beyond.”
― Rachel True, The Psychic Art of Tarot: Opening Your Inner Eye for More Insightful Readings

“I purchased many books, including those by Mary K. Greer, Starhawk, and Rachel Pollack. I consider these women, whom I’ve never met, to be my teachers. I kept copious grimoires—notebooks where I charted the tarot suit patterns like they were stars in the night sky. I hand drew the cards and got to know some of the many sides of myself through the story of the major arcana.”
― Rachel True, The Psychic Art of Tarot: Opening Your Inner Eye for More Insightful Readings

“If you’re familiar with Mat’s past bestselling works, Psychic Witch and Mastering Magick, you know he’s an astounding fount of esoteric and magical knowledge. He’s a sage teacher who is equally compelling as a writer. In this latest book, The Psychic Art of Tarot, Mat has pulled from a lifetime of magic and psychic practice.”
― Rachel True, The Psychic Art of Tarot: Opening Your Inner Eye for More Insightful Readings

“Under the tutelage of a teacher like Mat, tarot for exploring and harnessing your inner depths for intuitive and psychic insights can be smoothly incorporated into an existing practice. Tarot has a knack for offering incisive insights fairly quickly with regular practice. Mat’s approach invites us to navigate through the cards to the spaces where our most potent inner wisdom is hidden, waiting to be unlocked.”
― Rachel True, The Psychic Art of Tarot: Opening Your Inner Eye for More Insightful Readings