How to Select a Tarot Significator Card
In a tarot reading, the Significator card symbolizes the person seeking insight into an issue. Not every tarot spread, nor every deck, uses a Significator. This card is not shuffled with the other cards, which are selected unseen. The Significator is selected and set aside. Certain cards are better Significators than others. Choose a Significator that will serve as the foundation for the reading and which represents the seeker in the issue.
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Instructions
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Select the tarot card that best signifies you from the Court or Major Arcana cards. If choosing from the Court cards, select one that fits your personality. Select from Major Arcana cards if you bring a universal issue to the reading, such as Courage or Transformation.
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Relax before you select your card. Sit comfortably and focus on the issue you bring to the reading. Allow the issue to circulate throughout your being. When you are centered, choose your card with your non-dominant hand. Let the card speak to you. Trust yourself.
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Decide the suit from which you will choose your Significator. You can select it based on a common material indicator, such as your hair color. If choosing from the Court cards, the Wands represent the Fire element. You would choose from Wands if you have reddish-colored hair. Cups are Water; therefore, blond or light brown hair apply. Swords represent Air, and are considered for brown hair. Pentacles stand for the Earth. Select from Pentacles if you have dark hair, eyes or skin.
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Select according to your astrological sign. Choose from the Wands/Fire suit if you are a Leo, Sagittarius or Aries. Scorpios, Cancers and Pisces should choose from Cups/Water. Select from Swords/Air if you are an Aquarius, Gemini or Libra. Earth signs--Capricorn, Taurus and Virgo--will look to Pentacles.
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Choose your Significator card from outside the Court or Major Arcana cards. If you bring an issue of grief, you might select the Nine of Swords, a card of the mind and sorrow.
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Pick the Four of Wands, which describes Participation and Action, if you are troubled by isolation. Read the card's meaning. Let that resonate within you as the reading proceeds.
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Tips & Warnings
All guidelines aside, let intuition guide you. Every card you draw comes from you--the one person you can trust, if you can just get to your inner truth.
Resources
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