Tarot Spells, A Magical Guide to Tarot & Protection

A Magical Guide to Tarot & Protection

This guide provides magical associations for each Tarot card, allowing you to amplify your intentions and strengthen your manifestations. You'll also find a list of traditional methods for spiritual and physical protection.

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Tarot Suits & Elements

• Wands: Connected with the Fire element, symbolizing passion, energy, and forward movement.

• Swords: Connected with the Air element, dealing with thoughts, communication, truth, and perception.

• Cups: Connected with the Water element, representing the full spectrum of emotions.

• Pentacles: Connected with the Earth element, symbolizing manifestation, material wealth, and abundance.

Major Arcana: Card Associations

• The Fool: Represents new beginnings. Pair with other cards to specify the new beginning (e.g., The Fool + The Lovers for new romance).

• The Magician: Increases personal power, willpower, and inner balance.

• The High Priestess: Boosts psychic abilities, mediumship, and intuition.

• The Empress: Helps with creativity and creative endeavors.

• The Emperor: Establishes order, structure, and command.

• The Hierophant: Can be used to attract a new mentor or summon a spirit guide.

• The Lovers: Invokes and attracts love, partnership, and passion.

• The Chariot: Brings success and triumph to projects, tests, and exams.

• Strength: Helps you master your emotions.

• The Hermit: Supports rituals and meditations focused on self-understanding and life purpose.

• Wheel of Fortune: Used for luck, change, and getting a desired situation to move forward.

• Justice: Great for truth, legal matters, and justice.

• The Hanged Man: Buys you time for a difficult situation, delaying events.

• Death: Works well for ending situations, gaining closure, and new beginnings.

• Temperance: Restores balance and serenity to any situation.

• The Tower: Best used for hexing and cursing, bringing misfortune and chaos.

• The Star: Centers spells on hope, healing, and openness.

• The Moon: Helps develop intuitive abilities and can be used to send bad dreams.

• The Sun: Used in spells to summon happiness, success, and health.

• Judgement: Helps clear confusion and understand your life mission.

• The World: Invokes wholeness and completion.

Minor Arcana: Card Associations

Pages (New Beginnings)

• Page of Wands: Communication, messages, action, and passion.

• Page of Cups: Boosts creativity and taps into your spiritual nature.

• Page of Swords: Amplifies ingenuity, helps deliver messages, and attracts attention.

• Page of Pentacles: Good for grounding and centering spell work.

Knights (Movement & Speed)

• Knight of Wands: Speeds up workings involving passion, love, and creativity.

• Knight of Cups: Speeds up workings dealing with emotions and psychic development.

• Knight of Swords: Speeds up workings involving communication and thinking.

• Knight of Pentacles: Speeds up workings dealing with manifesting abundance and prosperity.

Kings (Mastery & Authority)

• King of Wands: Associated with leadership and authority.

• King of Cups: Helps resolve personal conflicts and inner turmoil.

• King of Swords: Aids in strengthening communication and speaking skills.

• King of Pentacles: Invokes luxury and business success.

Queens (Intuition & Nurturing)

• Queen of Wands: Establishes a sense of self-security and self-sufficiency.

• Queen of Cups: Develops psychic abilities and helps control emotions.

• Queen of Swords: Helps you develop stronger focus.

• Queen of Pentacles: Associated with abundance, creativity, and fertility.

Aces (New Beginnings)

• Used for new beginnings based on the energy of their respective suits.

Wands (Action & Energy)

• Two of Wands: Promotes positive progress in any situation.

• Three of Wands: Business prosperity.

• Four of Wands: Strengthens any type of relationship.

• Five of Wands: Used in hexes to invoke conflict and arguments.

• Six of Wands: Manifests recognition and success.

• Seven of Wands: Helps you succeed and come out stronger in a tough situation.

• Eight of Wands: Directs energy and speeds up workings.

• Nine of Wands: Provides strength and bravery when facing a difficult task.

• Ten of Wands: Can be used in a hex or curse to manifest burdens, or to achieve something great.

Cups (Emotions)

• Two of Cups: Union and strengthened romantic relationships.

• Three of Cups: Strengthens a friendship.

• Four of Cups: Manifests dissatisfaction.

• Five of Cups: Causes despair and sadness.

• Six of Cups: Lifts your mood.

• Seven of Cups: Illusions and deceptions.

• Eight of Cups: Helps you move on from the past.

• Nine of Cups: Grants wishes and invokes happiness.

• Ten of Cups: Brings happiness to all relationships.

Swords (Thought & Communication)

• Two of Swords: Used in curses to cause a limiting mindset.

• Three of Swords: Heartbreak and emotional strife.

• Four of Swords: Used in healing spells and as a sleeping aid.

• Five of Swords: Manifests conflict and failed success.

• Six of Swords: Helps you face difficult changes and move forward.

• Seven of Swords: Causes betrayal.

• Eight of Swords: Causes isolation.

• Nine of Swords: Sends nightmares and anxieties.

• Ten of Swords: Defeat and betrayal.

Pentacles (Abundance & Material World)

• Two of Pentacles: Brings balance.

• Three of Pentacles: Strengthens business connections.

• Four of Pentacles: Manifests financial stability.

• Five of Pentacles: Manifests financial problems.

• Six of Pentacles: Prosperity.

• Seven of Pentacles: Material abundance.

• Eight of Pentacles: Ensures your efforts will be rewarded.

• Nine of Pentacles: Success, luxury, and accomplishment.

• Ten of Pentacles: Success and wealth.

Note: The negative aspects of cards can be used for hexing and cursing.

Methods for Spiritual & Physical Protection

• Witches Bottle: Provides protection against curses, hexes, and spells.

• Salt Circle: Creates a barrier against negative entities and demons. Line your windows and doorways with salt.

• Iron: Repels evil. Drive three iron nails into a doorway to block negativity. Note: Iron also repels Fae.

• Plants: Certain plants, like ivy grown on your house, have protective properties. A wreath of rosemary or a pine branch can also be used.

• Visualization: Visualize a protective shield of light around yourself or your home.

• Mirrors: Place mirrors around your home to deflect the "evil eye."

• Blue Paint: In some traditions, painting your front porch blue can ward off ghosts, as they are said to fear water.

• Wind Chimes: Hanging wind chimes around your home can scare off bad spirits.

• Herbs: Put mint leaves in your shoes to protect against curses, or add pepper to a protection sachet to guard against magical attacks.

• Deities & Sigils: Ask your deity for protection or draw protective sigils on your home and clothes.

• Nazar: The "evil eye" symbol can protect your home from bad luck.

• Arrowheads: Placing arrowheads above your door can help keep out burglars and unwanted guests.

• Norse Traditions: According to Norse mythology, placing an acorn on a windowsill protects the home from lightning.

• Amulets: Create your own protection amulet.

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