The tarot has a remarkable ability to focus on a particular problem and provide great insight into its possible cause and solution. It can also pinpoint future events with tremendous accuracy, describing them in a remarkable detail. It is a marvellous tool that enables us to understand ourselves better, describing them in remarkable detail.
Choosing A Set Of Cards
There is such a wealth of tarot cards available that you can buy them in virtually every shape, size and style you wish. The choice is yours. What counts is finding a deck with which you feel completely comfortable. If you struggle to read the titles of the cards or can never remember their meanings because their images are so confusing, you will soon stop using them.
Once you have found a set of cards that you like, it is important to familiarise yourself with them. Spend plenty of time looking at each card, listening carefully to what your intuition tells you about it.
Jot down these ideas, preferably in a special notebook, because they will help you to elaborate on the meanings of the cards.
Giving A Tarot Reading
If you are a tarot novice, you are probably counting the minutes until you can give your first reading.
You will feel more relaxed and the reading will be more powerful if you have learned the basic meaning of each card and do not have to keep referring to this or any other source. Readings that are regularly punctuated by frantic searches through a book are rarely a comfortable or satisfying experience. Once you have mastered the essential meaning of each card, you can use your intuition to flesh out your interpretation.
Before you launch into your reading, study the cards to gain an initial impression of the spread.
Sometimes the tarot does not answer the question it has been asked. Instead, it concentrates on something completely different. For instance, your question about a relationship may remain unanswered because the cards are describing your health or your job prospects. It means that specific areas of your life need to be examined and the tarot is drawing your attention to them. As you become an accomplished tarot reader you will also recognise that on rare occasions the cards refuse to make any sense, and you cannot give a coherent reading. This may be because the time is not right for a reading. This can be frustrating but you must learn to respect the tarot, even when it is being uncooperative.
Major or Minor?
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| Major card |
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| Minor card |
Some people prefer to work with only the Major Arcana and to ignore the Minor Arcana. The combination of the two gives a much richer and more detailed reading, with more light and shade.
Reversed Cards
During the course of shuffling and laying out the cards, it is almost inevitable that some of them will be reversed. It is up to you whether you give these reversed cards a separate interpretation from their upright position, or simply turn them around and read them as normal. You may prefer to use only the upright meanings when you are learning to read the tarot, because that is quite enough information to remember at first, and then give reversed meanings when you are more proficient. Many professional tarot readers dispense with reversed meanings altogether. This has no bearing on their level of expertise - it is purely a matter of personal preference. The interpretation of each card includes its possible reversed meaning. Let your intuition dictate which parts of each interpretation you focus on.
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