21 Ways To Read A Tarot Card -- step ONE

Ambrosia

21 Ways ~ Step one ~ Victorian Romantic ~ Four of Cups

A group of people are in the garden in the evening, having a celebration or party.
There are four women and one man.
The ladies are raising their glasses in a toast to the man but he is not responding.
One woman is seated at a table, while the rest of the people stand.
There are colourful Chinese lanterns hanging from the branches above them.
 

Ambrosia

21 Ways ~ Step one ~ Bohemian Gothic ~ Seven of Swords

A young girl is sneaking away from a large house with a book in her arms.
She is looking back out of the corner of her eyes.
It is nighttime and there is one window in the house which has a light burning.
Another darkened window is swinging open as if she has escaped from it.
 

Midnightgirl

21 ways - step one - Sharman Caselli tarot

Step One.

Sharman Caselli Tarot, the Knight of Wands.

In a barren desert landscape, under a yellow sky, a brown horse leaps towards me. The horse's trappings are red and gold. Its rider is a smiling, excited man, with a large red feather on his helmet. A red cloak patterned with stars flows behind him. He wears a bright red shirt, trimmed with thick fur, under his armour. In his left hand he holds a large, thick wand that is at least twice as tall as he is. From this staff small orange tongues of flame erupt as if they were branches. In the far distance behind him there are two pyramids on the horizon.

The Knight of Wands.
 

Ambrosia

21 Ways ~ Step one ~ Housewives Tarot ~ Two of Pentacles

A Housewife stands juggling two dinner plates, one in each hand, with a look of open thoughtfulness on her face.
To her right is a young boy, looking at us, the viewer, while tugging on his mother's skirt.
To her left is a little dog playing tug~of~war with the bottom of her skirt.
 

Venus1fl

21 Ways -Step 1 - Rider Waite - Knight of Pentacles

This card depicts a heavily armored knight upon a black horse and holding one pentacle in his outstretched hand.

The background is yellow (gold) with green mountains that appear to be very distant from the Knight's current location.

The horse's bridle and gear is red with one of his harness straps being longer than the others and resembling a phallus.

While the Knight is wearing his armor, he appears to be relaxed. His helmet is open and he seems to be offering the pentacle.
 

llunnacee

Step ONE: Gilded Tarot, Page of Pentacles

The first noticeable trait of this card is that it's emanating the color green - a rich, emerald green. There is a gold border framing the card with one large, inset green gem at the top, two smaller ones on each side, and Page of Pentacles engraved on a gold plaque on the bottom.

The Page appears sexless; that is, it could be male or female as it has long, deep brown hair and the features of the face retain the flawless perfection that belongs to the young. I will, however, refer to the Page in the masculine.

He is clothed in rich green textures: striped hose, soft, brown leather slippers, puffed gold sleeves viewable on his right arm while across the other and around the neck and left shoulder is draped a shawl embroidered with gold flowers and a simple tassel at the wrist. Atop his head is a matching beret with some sort of insignia inside a flower and two large, golden yellow plumes. He is holding a five-sided golden shield. At each point on the shield, just inside the border, are five green gems (also five-sided). Within that is another five-sided border reflecting an intricately carved sun on a green background. The shield reflects light along the bottom of its left side, as if the shield were tilted back at the top.

The Page stands out on a balcony. The floor is tiled stone in shades of green, brown, and beige. The railing appears to be made of dark brown granite and its carved pillars remind me of large water urns. Beyond the railing is a thick, vibrant shrub that winds its way up along the right side and top of this card. There are four fully-opened blooms of a deep pink or salmon color.

Perched atop the railing to the left of the Page is a very regal male peacock. His tail feathers drape down to the Page's feet and he is vibrant in color. His back is to the Page but his head is turned completely around and he is intensely observing the Page, who is looking off to his left.

The sky is depicted in shades of deep blue, soft to bright orange, and a bit of gray and black - as if a thunderhead was forming. It could be breaking dawn or just after sunset - my opinion is that its the latter.

This is the Page of Pentacles of the Gilded Tarot.
 

robstanley1

21 Ways to read a Tarot Card - Step 1

Step ONE: Gilded Tarot, Nine of Wands.

The Gilded Nine of Wands card depicts a soldier, helmeted and dressed in chain mail and a firery red jerkin.

He's crouched in front of eight Wands, which are planted in a grass field, immediately behind him, and he's holding the ninth wand (either in a posture of defence, or for support) with both hands - base resting on the grass, and top pointed skyward.

Oddly, for such an otherwise well kitted-out soldier, his jerkin is untied, the laces hanging limply down, and he has no boots...?

Although his stance seems to imply he's guarding his wands, his head is bowed, and his eyes are closed; he appears intensely weary, but doesn't seem ready to rest.

Behind him, the sky is cloud-covered, with the sunlit clouds low down. Although this could be a sunrise, I feel instinctively that the Sun's actually setting.

In the immediate foreground, a beetle scuttles up some ivy leaves, and a small circlet of grey stones is immediately in front of the soldier

This is the Gilded NINE OF WANDS card.
 

Thorn

21 Ways - Step One

Step ONE: Fairy Tarot, Three of Leaves (Leaves which corresponds to Swords)

This card shows a male fairy sitting on the stem of a fallen mushroom. He is hunched, his shoulders on his knees and his hands are covering his face. He appears to be very sad. In the background a female fairy is drifting away from him yet also looking back at him. She does not appear to be a distraught as he is.

This is the Three of Leaves from the Fairy Tarot.
 

vanity

21 Ways-Step 1

Paulina Tarot, Queen of Wands.

A young woman with a short hairstyle, black/brown in color stands leaning onto a sandy yellow cat that is sitting on his haunches. They're almost the same height. The Queen of Wands is wearing a crimson colored dress that ends just above her knees, and there is a green colored eye on the torso of the dress. She has on a hat that is a bit like an umbrella hat except the stem is like a tiny tree's, and the tip balloons out with red and gold leaves and tiny berries. She holds up a golden staff that ends with a sunflower, but below that on the staff is a diamond-shaped cat head, though it personally reminds me of a lion and his mane.

They're surrounded by buttercups and sunflowers, all of them the summer-variety type (somewhat dry, crispy). On one of the wispy stalks is a winged snail.

The feline (the Queen's companion) has numerous tattoos on his body. A green star, a blue star, a pale red swirl are but few that adorn him. On his head is an antenna-like staff attached to his skull. It's topped off with a large eye. The feline's eyes are also green. One of the sunflowers has a star on the inside, and a buttercup has a heart.
 

alice_addams

21 Ways--Step ONE

Step One: Tarot of the Dead, The Star.

A creek flows through a darkened forest. Stars are seen in the background; pinpoints of light shining through the canopy of trees. An 8-pointed star shines above the skull of the kneeling skeleton, who pours liquid from a yellow bottle into the creek while pouring the blue bottle upon the earth. A skeletal bird watches this labor with interest. A mushroom grows on the side of the creek. Some of the tree roots reaching up from the water almost appear to be stalagmites.

This is the Star in the Tarot of the Dead.