Hello and welcome to Terrell Bites. I'm Teresa Reed the Terrell Lady. I am the author of the Terrell coloring book and I'm your host for this podcast series. This is episode 34 of

tarot bites the podcast where I dish out short entertaining bite-sized lessons on

how to read tarot. For today's episode, our topic is

the Aces. So let's begin. So you might be wondering why am I doing all the aces at once? Well I'm combining them in one

lesson because I think they share some common ground and it's fun to compare them. If you have your deck

handy you might want to pull them out so you can take a look at what I'm

comparing as we go along and you know also you can see then what's happening in

each card. So anyhow as we discuss in our

previous lessons, the aces correlate with the number one. And number one is a symbol of new beginnings or fresh starts.

Now, if we combine our ace with a suit,

we can find an interpretation that goes

something like this. Aces is a new beginning and let's look at the cups and the

cup suit are emotions and relationships. Therefore the AISA cups would symbolize a

fresh emotional beginning or the start of a relationship. Got it? The number plus the suit is a quick way to jog your

taro brain and get you interpreting fast, which is probably what you want to do,

right? I thought so. Now, before I give you a couple

interpretations about the Aces, let's take a look at some of the symbols on these cards.

So the one thing that's interesting is the hand that comes out of the clouds in each card.

Now if you look at the ace of cups and the ace of petticles, the hand is open, and an open hand is symbolic of giving and receiving.

It's a symbol of an offering, which means that these aces symbolized an offer of sorts.

Now the energy between the ace of cups and the ace of penicles is very feminine, it's receptive,

and it's open. Now if you look at the is very

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