Take a look at vegetables in supermarket. Don’t they look wonderful? Have you ever wondered why it is that World Health Organisation keeps increasing our daily recommended input of fruit and vegetables? Well, it is because those beautiful vegetables have hardly any vitamins, minerals or life force energy. This means we have to eat more to get what we require in order to survive. We have lost our connection to and understanding of earth so much so that our farming methods just plunder soil. Feed soil, nurture it and rest it and you will get good crops with high vitamin and mineral content as well as life force energy. Say Thank-you!

Even better, connect with earth yourself; grow some of your own vegetables (try containers if space is limited). Come back to being who is part of planet earth, part of tapestry of life integral to planet instead of trying to be separated. There is actually nothing lacking on this planet, it is management and distribution systems that have gone awry, together with our own lack of connection.

There is abundance for all! We can create it in our lives by living an attitude of gratitude and beginning realisation that we are not separate from anyone or anything.

Robina Hearle www.RoseCottageFlowerEssences.co.uk

Robina Hearle is a Flower Essence Therapist and Maker, Reiki Master and Chartered Physiotherapist. You can find her unique flower essences at www.rosecottagefloweressences.co.uk

Because of this, artwork is much more complex and symbolic. The Major Arcana and face cards are much more colorful, lifelike, and detailed. It's Minor Arcana, though, where you'll find main difference.

Rather than use simple counts, artist (Pamela Coleman Smith -- who also illustrates childrens adventure stories) decided to draw vignettes of people engaged in some phase of everyday life. Because of this, pip cards are highly enriched and yield many thoughtful perspectives -- what are people thinking, what are their motivations, what are their fears, etc -- to enrich Tarot readings.

The final deck style is Thoth style -- named after a deck designed by Aleister Crowley and painted by Lady Freida Harris. The Thoth deck was intended for magickal use from very beginning. The paintings are surrealistic and highly symbolic. Thoth adds a new technique to mix, though. Each non-face card of Minor Arcana has a subheading describing some motivation or aspect -- things like Happiness, Luxury, Virtue, Oppression, etc. Because of this, some readers find it easy to read with Thoth decks. Thoth decks also make it easy to draw from other esoteric disciplines -- astrology, for example -- in order to create inspired Tarot readings.

Most decks you'll find in a bookstore will follow one of these three basic styles. Marseilles styles will use pip counts, RWS styles will use pip scenes, and Thoth styles tend to be surrealistic but label Minor Arcana with additional descriptions.