An Empowered Card Reading: How the difference between Tarot and Angel cards enhances your insight
An Empowered Card Reading:
How the difference between Tarot and Angel cards enhances your insight.
Tarot and angel card readings aren’t just a way to know what’s ahead for you. They can be a powerful tool to help you connect with your intuition or spirit, understand the energies impacting your experiences and emotions, and ultimately inspire and motivate you to take actions aligned with your passion and purpose.
Understanding the difference between traditional tarot, oracle decks and angel cards can bring new depths to the guidance, coaching and clarity that you would expect to receive from a card reading.
Tarot is typically a standard system of 78 cards
When people think of a tarot card deck, most people are envisioning the Rider-Waite Smith style cards, and many consider this format to be “traditional” tarot. These decks always have 22 Major Arcana cards including those iconic cards like “The Star”, “The Sun”, “Death”, “Judgement”, and 56 Minor Arcana cards arranged neatly into four different suits - swords, pentacles, wands and cups.
The "death" Card acts as a warning to a certain cycle in your life that may be coming to an end.
The "Sun" Card is one of the best cards to receive in a tarot reading. It alludes to happiness, success, and positive outcomes to current struggles.
In traditional tarot card readings, the 22 Major Arcana cards tend to relate to major life events, with the 56 Minor Arcana being more about the day-to-day experiences. Learn more about the
different types of tarot cards here.
Some creators have been a little more liberal and creative with their designs. But for the most part, the same system and meanings of tarot cards is consistent across any deck of cards no matter what they actually look like.
Source: https://exemplore.com/fortune-divination/The-Origins-of-the-Rider-Waite-Smith-Tarot
Tarot readings can provide specific guidance about your past, current, and future. Learning tarot may seem difficult but the key is tapping into your intuition and your sitter’s energy to interpret the cards. Tarot, despite having some common themes, is mostly subjective to the user. There is no wrong answer – you are using the cards as a tool for your intuition and higher thought processes. The purpose of Tarot cards is to unveil what is unconscious, so that it may become conscious.
Angel and oracle cards are more fluid
There’s more freedom for expression and focus in the design and structure of oracle and angel card decks. They can follow whatever system the creator chooses. There can be any number of cards and there’s no prescribed format or system for them to follow.
Angel cards convey general guidance on your present situation. Some decks are broad and can be used for any type of reading. Other decks serve a specific purpose. For example, healing, purpose, love, animals, and career. “Messages from your person” is a popular theme for some love themed oracle cards. They may be to help people connect with spirit animals, energy and emotions and a host of other themes.
Angel cards are a type of oracle card, focused on assisting the reader in receiving and interpreting messages from the spirit realm. When a medium connects with Angels, spirit guides, and ancestors, they can use Angel and Oracle cards to have a physical symbol to represent a message.
Ciara Boeltz, a SoulConX resident specialist card reader, considers
“angel cards closer to oracle cards, but with a little extra input from spirit guides or your specific guardian angels.” During readings, she told SoulConX that she,
“typically uses angel cards when someone is looking to connect more directly with loved ones who've passed or [with] their angels and spirit guides.”
Which to choose: tarot, oracle or angel card readings?
There’s so much difference in the designs and structure between tarot and angel card decks, it can be overwhelming to figure out the best one to use to provide the guidance needed.
The short answer is that it depends on the questions you have and the guidance you need, where you want to draw that guidance from (intuition or the spirit realm) and to which deck you are energetically drawn (think Harry Potter selecting his wand).
Source: https://tenor.com/es/ver/ollivander-i-wonder-wand-shop-john-hurt-harry-potter-gif-7686275
Why not try all of them? It's also possible to combine decks of cards in a reading!
There are some themed oracle or angel tarot decks, but most readers will have a collection of cards they connect with and use for their own readings. Card readers will often combine their decks, reading from a mixture of tarot, oracle and angel cards. Boeltz adds that in her readings, “both are helpful tools, depending on the type of information [that the client is] most interested in.”
When combining decks, readers will select one deck as the primary deck and incorporate others to get an overall energy read or additional context.
In any case, it is important to connect to intuition, energy, or spirit to receive a meaningful reading. Simply flipping cards is just that - flipping cards.
SoulConX welcomes experienced readers to join our community of passionate, aligned practitioners who provide a range of spiritual services including card and psychic readings, energy healing and more.
How to select a card reader
If you’re trying to choose the right reader for you, focus on the connection you feel to them more than the tools they use.
Your inner guidance and intuition always knows best, so let yourself be led by it. You should feel drawn to the reader’s energy as this is a good indication that you’ll vibe with them and get the most out of your reading.
Ciara Boeltz is SoulConX’s resident specialist angel card reader. She provides energy healing sessions and uses tarot and angel cards to provide uplifting, supportive and insightful readings.
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