The Fool

March 21st

My story:
This card came up when questioning the situation in a family of an aquaintance who recently came across long lost relative. They seemed to realize that situation was more complicated than they could ever have thought, that they were accepting a stranger into their home and that they don't really know this person and should not take the whole situation lightly.

Why did this person suddenly decided to come back into their life? What made them do that and what were their intentions? it might seem simple at the first glance, but I think they are in for a surprise...
Another situation when this card came up was when a person expected somthing would be simple and had no idea that things were much more complicated than they expected. A lot mo0re work is required than originally expected. Things are not always what the appear to be at first.

General Meaning:
A trusting individual who takes a leap of faith thinking things will be "all good", only to find that things are much more complicated than originally anticipated. taking a jump into the void or unknown circumstances.

Justice

March 21st - April 19th


General Meaning:
This card represents some kind of legal matter. Can signify either getting or giving justice. It can also ask you to see the truth of the situation or come to aknowledge the state of your own feelings. Is your heart heavy or light? Have you been living in accordance with your own rules or rules of others? Do you feel joy of your own life?

My Story:

High Priestess

February 19th - March 20th

My story:

General Meaning:
Use of intuition and inner guidance as personal counsel. Seek your own advice on this matter. Source of inspiration comes from within.

Wheel of Fortune

February 2nd

My story:
General Meaning:
Change of fortune; the wish or prayer or hope that comes true. This card puts us on notice that our luck if bound to change. If you have been unlucky lately, trust the universe that things will improve. It also suggests that "what goes around comes around", and if you haven't been fair to your fellow man, better watch your step. You are on a path of getting a spoonful from the dish you have been serving up.

The Chariot

January 20th - February 18th

My story:
A secretary is asked by her boss to schedule a meeting with a particular person but cannot fullfill the manager's request because the person refuses to attend the meeting
Reversed often points out to feelings that things are slipping out of your control and that you do not have a say in the current situation. Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. While in the upright position there is some kind of level of control possessed by the querrent, in the reversed position there is absolutely none.

General Meaning:

Inability to perform a task because you don't have all the control. Just like a chariot depends on more than one wheel, the resolution of your situation depends on more than one factor and/or another person, so you do not have control over all of them

Magician

December 22nd - January 19th

My story:

General Meaning:

Molding the situation to your liking. Changing the information received based on your personal likes and dislikes or modifying the situation to suit your needs.

The Devil

December 22nd

My story:

General Meaning:
An intense karmic relationship, positive or negative. People with whom you may have work to do. Meaningful pain. There will be pain untill work is done, followed by great joy. This card represents the results of lust, greed, and other human shortcomings.

Strength

November 222nd - December 21st

My story:
Personally, when looking at this card I can't help but relate it to another card that also has a symbol of infinity as a part of its image - 2 of Coins. So for me, there is always a sense of deja vu, repeating one's mistakes and going around in never ending cycles. To me one needs all his/her strength to break the cycle and gain balance and stability.


General Meaning:
A strong relationship working together to create change. This relationship can be within an individual and be completely symbolic or it can be literal. This card represents the power of subconscious and intuitive over the conscious and logical. Emotions vs. brute strength.

Judgement

October 31st

My story:
One of the most complicated cards in this deck for me. To this day I have not connected to it 100% and did not uncover all its depth. Hopefully some day I will.

General Meaning:
Represents spiritual intervention. Can mean judging as well as being judged.

Death

October 23rd - November 21st

General Meaning:
The promise of renewal. The complete and total change and transformation. The end of one period and beginning of another. Things coming to an end, opening a space for new beginning.

My Story:
I pulled this card when problematic people, who were a large part of the querent's life, did a complete 180

Tower

September 23rd

My story:
I pulled out this card during the election time, right before results of the election were announced. My husband and I were anxiously waiting in our living room and I went to my card table and asked "Will Obama win?" and in response I pulled the Tower card. I did not know what to think since I was new to MAAT tarot and it was a first time I ever dealt with the Tower card. A few minutes later my husband and I heard on TV that Obama did win.

I took the meaning of MAAT Tower as a breakthrough, as accomplishement that was not an easy one but all the time and resources spent make the victory even more valued.
Since then the Tower in MAAT has been always a positive card to me.

General Meaning:
Usially means something has happened or is going to happen that will take you by surprise. What happened can make you feel shattered, but you will find that all situations have balance and that the situation that started out as a bad thing turns out to be something that teaches you a valuable lesson.

The Emperor

September 23rd - October 22nd

My story:
This card came out when my husband decided to make some changes in the way he related to others and stop making apologies for the way he is. He stopped restraining himself from speaking up and became more assertive as he was growing in his new role as a father and a husband.

General Meaning:

Represents a person of power who is often at the center of life of people around them. This person is not afraid to speak up and makes no apologies for the way they are. if you do not like them, it's your problem. They realize life is too short to wait for "someday", and they never miss an opportunity.

Temperance

August 23rd - September 22nd

My story:


General Meaning:

Time of transition. A notice that until karmic lessons are learned, the history will continue to repeat itself. Also suggests that there will be blending and mixing of things that are considered opposites.

The Hanged One

August 1st

My story:
I pulled this card right before going to a marketing seminar that my husband and I got invited to by our neighbor. I pulled this card in reply to a question how will the seminar go.

Well, I was greatly disappointed by seminar since it was one of those things where they talk in a lot of words, saying very little. Loads of B.S, in other words. But, while half listening to the speaker filling us up with useless info, I got some pretty good ideas that later proved to be very fruitful, so on the way back home my disappointment and annoyance slowly turned to excitement.

It was just like the card - on the surface it looks like a dry dying wheat, but inside there is a growing fetus, the same way as useless seminar produced some fruitful ideas in my head.

Another time I pulled this card in response to a question about current situation at work. At the time I had very few projects and was bored, but I found out that there was a very large interesting project coming up and at that point in time the project was in an embrio stage and even though things looked pretty boring at work, there was a definite promise of positive change in the near future.


General Meaning:
Enlightment, the ability to see things from new perspective. Represents a stagnant time between two major events. A time when external world sees nothing that you are doing but in fact you are making rapid progress.

The Star

July 22nd - August 22nd

My story:
From my experience this card means that you will be able to accomplish what you wanted but in a slightly different manner than you have originally planned. Prepare to get creative. Artificial over natural. If you let natural circumstances to take their course, nothign will happen, you will need to take action yourself.


General Meaning:
Need to be careful because someone is trying to destroy you out if jealousy or simply because your current happiness does not serve their needs.

The story of the card is that god Set got jealous of the happiness Isis and Osiris had and he decided to destroy Osiris. So he invited him to a party and ticked him into getting into the box which later was embedded into a tree. Isis searched for Osiris and when she found the tree, she re-membered Osiris out of the ashes from that tree and used it to conceive a child.

The Sun

June 21st

My story:
I remember pulling out this card from the deck shortly before I conceived, so to me it will always mean conception and fertility. If not actual conception and/or fertility, it means either being fertile with new ideas or full of energy for new beginnings.

General Meaning:
The most positive card in the deck, generally means child or successful outcomes.

The Hermit

June 21st - July 22nd

My story:
In an argument with someone, when both sides are unwilling to settle and things get out of hand, The Hermit signifies the last straw: either one side will tire out and decide to move away from the argument, or it means that it's as bad as it will get and from now on things can only get better (or worse, when the situation is positive).

Another meaning Hermit card had for me when I decided not to try anymore to smooth things out with a person i had a conflict with, but instead move away and not make any attempts for communication. Let them be.

General Meaning:
Reaching the highest point, the peak of the experience. Could signify being lonely at the top.

The Moon

May 31st


General Meaning:
Deception, illusion, subconscious mind, intuition. Relates to all things that run in cycles, phases.

High Priest

May 21st - June 20th


General Meaning:

Advisor. reaching high peak of a situation. Initiation rites.

The Lovers

May 1st


General Meaning:

Represent intimate partnership, even stronger bond than marriage