Choosing the Major Arcana for Significators

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Theresa Reed | The Tarot Lady

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:spirituality

4.9 • 936 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Episode 114: Choosing the Major Arcana for Significators. We've been focusing on significators in the past two episodes. To recap: a significator is a card consciously chosen to represent a person. The cards that I usually choose for significators are Court Cards. But what about the Major Arcana? Can you choose them as a significator? Sure you can! In this lesson, we're looking at various ways you can choose a Major Arcana card for a significator. I'll teach you three easy methods. Explore all three and see which one you like the best. The book mentioned in this episode is Who Are You in the Tarot?: Discover Your Birth and Year Cards and Uncover Your Destiny by Mary K. Greer.

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to Terro Bites. I'm Theresa Reed the Terro Lady. I'm the author of the Terrell
0:24.4	coloring book and your host for this podcast series. This is episode 114 of Terabytes.
0:30.9	The podcast where I to shout short entertaining bite size lessons on how to
0:35.4	re-tero. For today's episode our topic is choosing the major Arcana forators. Let's begin.
0:44.2	So a little story, first of all.
0:46.2	Years ago, I knew a guy who was probably the best tarot reader
0:50.2	I have ever come across. He wasn't a pro but he should have been. His insides were
0:55.4	uncanny and totally accurate. He was a triple Scorpio and totally psychic. He was also kind of a violent guy but very interesting. Anyhow, when we were playing around with Tarot, he always chose the magician as his significant.
1:14.0	And I used to think that he was being rather egotistical, which by the way he was a pretty egotistical guy, but looking back, I can totally see why he chose that card.
1:24.4	He was a really intense guy and very powerful.
1:29.1	And that power wasn't always used well.
1:31.6	But he certainly had that focused will and again intense energy. Things
1:39.0	happened around this guy. So the magician made total sense. And you know that of course got me thinking all those years ago.
1:47.4	Can you use the major icon as a significator? And my answer is absolutely yes and he was certainly the proof in the pudding.
1:55.0	All right, so you might be asking, well how do you choose a major O'Connor and there are a few ways to determine this.
2:01.0	You know, first of all, if you're like him, you can simply choose the energy that
2:05.1	matches your personality, or maybe the energy that you want or need at the time of the reading. So, for example, if you're stepping into a leadership role at work and you want to inquire about it you might choose the emperor as your significator.
2:20.0	If you see yourself as the ultimate Earth Mother and maybe you love your home and you've got a bunch of kids and you like to nurture people, you know the Empress would be an use astrology.
2:33.0	So the second way to pick a major or kind of significator would be to use astrology.
2:40.0	Now the magical order of the Golden Dawn tradition had specific correlations between the astrology
2:45.6	signs and the majors. 12 of the majors are attributed to certain astrology signs while others
2:51.4	are connected to the planets and elements. Now for this
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