Facial Expressions in the Tarot Cards

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Theresa Reed | The Tarot Lady

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:spirituality

4.9 • 936 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Episode 194. In past episodes, we've looked at postures, gestures, and even the hands to glean information about the tarot cards. What about the faces on the figures? What do they reveal? A lot...and not a lot. Here's the deal: some cards have obvious associations with different emotions while others are rather neutral, leaving the reader to interpret what the figure might be feeling or conveying. Look at the smirk on the Five of Swords - that tells you there is something shady going on. But the inscrutable face of the Queen of Wands leaves your imagination to do the work. Different decks also have images that could give whole new interpretations based on the artist's rendering. I'll talk about all of this in the latest episode.

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to Tarot Bites. I'm Theresa Reed the Tarot Lady. I'm the author of Tarot no questions asked
0:25.1	mastering the art of intuitive reading and the Tarot coloring book. I'm also your
0:30.4	host for this podcast series. This is episode 194 of Tarro Bites. The
0:36.5	podcast where I just shout short entertaining bite-sized lessons on how to read Tarro.
0:40.6	And for today's episode our topic is facial expressions in the
0:45.8	tarot. Let's begin. So I've done episodes on gestures, postures, and even the
0:52.2	hands in tarot.
0:53.8	Today I want to talk about the importance of facial expression
0:57.4	to convey meanings.
0:59.5	Our faces give so much away, and it's the same in the taro. And when you look at the
1:05.2	smirk on the figures and the five of swords and seven of swords, you can surmise
1:09.6	it, they're getting away with something. The small smile on the nine of cups shows satisfaction or smugness.
1:17.5	Look at the night of swords and you'll see someone who looks fierce, angry, and ready to charge into battle. This is one of the reasons why
1:25.0	Illustrated Pips are so important for tarot readers. The faces give the reader
1:29.6	more to work with. Now in some tarot decks the faces can be quite remarkable and can alter the
1:36.5	meanings. For example, in the Rider Waite Smith deck, the 10 of sorts is face down. We have no
1:42.1	idea what the face indicates. Now compare of
1:45.0	the swords is face down. We have no idea what the face indicates.
1:44.0	Now compare that to the tennis swords and the cosmic taro.
1:48.0	And you see an image of a figure that looks to be frightened and in pain.
1:52.0	I've actually had clients hate that
1:54.7	card because of the facial expression. Now I normally see the ten of
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