The Big Book of Tarot Quotes

“The Swords are the suit of intellect, thought, and reason. They are concerned with justice, truth, and ethical principles.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“The cards have unique meanings, but they also have a common identity with the other cards in their group.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“In Pentacles, we celebrate the beauty of nature, our interactions with plants and animals, and our physical experiences in the body. Pentacles also represent prosperity and wealth of all kinds. Sometimes this suit is called the Coins, an obvious symbol of the exchange of goods and services of the physical world.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“Each card has a role to play in showing how the energy is expressed in the world.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“An ace always represents positive forces. It is the standard-bearer for the best its suit has to offer.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“Do I attract people of the same type or different?”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“Your actions and intentions as you shuffle and cut the cards align certain energies in a way that is meaningful to you. When you lay the cards out, you can see a picture of all those energies in one place.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“An upright card shows an energy that is developed available, and active. The energy is strong and clearly present in the situation.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“A reversed card shows an energy that is not fully developed. It exists in the situation, or it would not have appeared, but it’s weak, incomplete, unavailable, or in some other way not fully expressed.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“A spread is a preset pattern that defines how many cards to use, where each one goes, and what each one means.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“The most important feature of a spread is a fact that each position had a unique meaning that colors the interpretation of whatever card falls in the spot.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“When cards are related to each other in a spread, an entirely new level of meaning is created. Combinations appear, and a story line develops with characters, plots, and themes.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“Your story will help you understand your subject and give you guidance for the future-what you have been seeking all along.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“Write one sentence that sums up your interpretation.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“The tarot is a mirror that reflects your own consciousness back to you. As you learn, that mirror becomes clearer, and you perceive at deeper levels.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“A pentacle is a magical sign for the mystery of nature and the everyday world. It is stamped on a coin, the token of material exchange.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“Aces are portals between the realms of the major and minor arcanas. They allow powerful, but impersonal forces to come into your everyday life.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“The pages inspire us to enjoy their interests with them.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“The secret of creating a story is getting from intellectual understanding to knowing, from a piecemeal graps to a unified vision.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“You know your insights are correct when you feel complete and satisfied with them.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“Your first attempts will probably be awkward, but your stories will improve with practice.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“You will develop an ability to guide the flow of words without imposing your will upon them.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“Sometimes insights will surface that completely surprise you.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“Sometimes knowing comes in fragments.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“Each spread has its own character based on its history, form, and purpose.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“Know you are truly connected to all that is.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“It is your concentrated clarity about a situation that gives you the power to mold events along the lines of your choosing.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“The point is that of all possible stories, I chose a certain one. Why.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“He acts out the quality of his suit with pleasure and abandon.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth

“We always see reality through a lens made up of our own inner state.”
― Joan Bunning, The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth