How to read tarot cards?
I’m learning how to read tarot cards. Tarot cards have different meanings if they’re placed right side up or reversed. If you’re giving a tarot reading to someone else, is the “reversed” card meaning it’s reversed for the person you’re reading it to, or is it reversed when you see it?
Answer by Liberal Asskickers Nightmare
Oh that’s a real toughy, that is.
Answer by CC
When the reader accepts the deck that has been shuffled by the questioner, the reader makes sure to maintain the correct orientation of the deck so as to properly read the “reversed” cards, as they would appear “reversed” to the questioner.
Answer by moddy almondy
Reversed = opposite meaning.
Answer by Raith is teh Ghoast Kitteh
They are reversed to your perspective. If a card is reversed it’ll look upside down to you.
What do these 3 tarot cards mean together?
I was doing a reading about a relationship regarding how someone feels about me, and it was supposed to be only one card but these 3 jumped out… The star, the empress, and then the five of wands. Thanks for your help 🙂
Answer by Tea
The Star card says that you probably already have a good idea about how this person feels about you…it’s staring you right in the face. Your gut feeling is right.
The Empress suggests that this person finds you very attractive and/or charming.
However, the 5 of Wands indicates that this person may think you can be a little difficult or confrontational sometimes.
Buying tarot cards which and where ?
I’ve always wanted to learn about tarot cards and I would like to make a move and buy some.
Which brand should I buy ?
Where do I get them ?
Should I get a seperate book to learn how to use them ?
Answer by mouse14592000
Go to http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/ as it has a galore of various decks and previews with summaries and reviews. You can browse the decks to find one that feels right to you. You can connect through the colors or imagery of the cards.
This site also has links to where you can buy the deck you choose.
The rider waite version is one of the most common decks. However, it is better to use a deck that you feel personally drawn to in order to have a deeper connection and greater results.
Some people rely on the books, while others never look at them. It is your choice. I like to have the accompanying book available for my reference when dealing with a new deck, but that is my personal preference. Most decks if bought new will come with the book already.
Answer by eustacia
Find a bookshop or an on-line supplier, look at the pictures until you find one with to which you feel drawn and buy it. It should be fairly easy to get hold of some and more places sell them. Books are usually included, though sometimes they are sold separately. Books give you ideas on what spreads ( pattern of drawing and laying down the cards and what each one means in that position) to use. Check whether the cards you choose all have pictures as some packs have picture cards plus symbols as in playing cards, others are all pictorial. I think the latter give you more ideas as you are meant to use your own intuition and not simply rely on the meaning given by any accompanying book.
Just one point though, it is not easy to read for yourself and do not use them as a crutch for living your life. They are an aid, a tool, not designed to tell you what to do and take away your free will. Plus, if you read for others, make sure you tell them it is for entertainment only and that readings are a guide to the future, not a definite answer as to what will happen.
Answer by xxxx
If you are new to the Tarot you should start out with a good classic deck as a base in learning. The Rider-Waite deck is such a deck.
Never buy a deck you haven’t held in your hand–box and all is okay. You should feel that it is right for you. You can do this at many of the large book stores.
Take the deck home and begin, but if the instructions that come with the deck confuse you, don’t give up, return to the store and get a book that is specific to the classic meanings and layouts.
Answer by ange1tear
I agree with XXXX its best if you go out to buy it, hold it in your hands go through many of them till one feels just right for you. These cards will always be with you so its best to pick wisely.
Some bookstores carry them in the new age/metaphysical section of the store.
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Your aim is to lay out the cards so they seem upright to you – the reader. It’s more important for you to see them upright as you are doing the interpreting and need to seem them more clearly. Any that are reversed to you will seem upright to the questioner but that is not important. You are the reader – you have to do the reading. If you are reading a book to someone else you don’t read it upside down just so they can see the words.
The other alternative is to sit next to the questioner so you both see the cards the same way up.
Hello
If your new to Tarot, reversed are best left alone.
But in terms of which was is reversed for the reader, they are reversed or upright as the reader looks at them.
Other than that im don’t really understand your question?
Sadhara
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I agree wholeheartedly with XXXX. The Rider Waite Deck are a magnificent deck, I have them myself and the Energies that come from them are simply amazing.
tarot cards alone, better try to any bookstore, sometimes bookstore have it, i have tarot card and i bought it to bookstore, ordinary cards you can find it even in the market place. brand of tarots its not the brand you should choose, as soon as you touch tarot card you can feel something in your hands,that is for you. of course you must study and learn the meaning of each cards and by the help of your vibration/vibes, if you really had a physcic power it would be easy for you. by the way, i said i have tarot card, but i never bought a book, as soon as touch the card and the image something wierd, i feel the heat and it runs to my whole body, and then i can tell the meaning, through proper anallization of laying the cards on the table, quickly i ‘m able to tell what kind , who and etc.im telling these to you based on experienced. if you are gifted as they say, no hard ways of finding and learning the tarot card. and please no funfare of holding the tarot cards, its sensitives. even the centuries card, same as tarots both have daring and deep meaning, concentrations of reading cards and vibes is your guide.
I found it easier to learn on the Rider-Waite deck and then adapt to other decks that I really admired or felt drawn to. (I now use the Sacred Circle deck and the Rider-Waite deck the most – despite the fact that I have collected several others. These two work best for me.)
Or you could get the Universal Waite, which is the same as Rider Waite only with softer colors. There are a ton of books to supplement learning that are based on the Waite deck as well as the one that you can get with the cards.
This free online course is based on the Waite deck as well.
http://www.learntarot.com/
And as someone else suggested, this is another good site for learning more about tarot and browsing through decks to see what strikes your fancy.
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/
you can find Tarot cards in just about any major bookstore in the new age section. as for which to buy, only you can decide that. which ever deck calls to you most.
Okay, you can buy Tarot Cards in Barnes and Noble. That’s where I got mine a few years ago. I don’t really think the brand matters. There are some packages that you can find and they include a book, an mini interpretation book, some sort of map thing, and a deck of cards. It all comes in pretty useful.
Hope That Helped!
Almost all Tarot sets are based off of the Rider-Waite deck. So, in that sense, it’s easiest to start with a deck based off of this because you’ll be able to find meanings for your cards on any website, or in any book.
However, I’d tell you to go to a Barnes & Noble or a “New Age” store and flip through the decks to see which one you like- as your gut is usually the best thing to follow. The brand is irrelevant, and you can buy them at almost any bookstore, though some stores keep them stashed behind the counter. As for a book- most decks come with a book anymore. And if the deck you chose doesn’t, I’d tell you to either buy a book, or find a website, since the meanings are very helpful when you are starting out.
Hope it helps!
The cards you buy depends not only on personal preference but on what it is you want to use them for. The best known use for tarot cards is divination, it is not so common to use the traditional designs for this, there being packs re-designed by occultists since they laid claim to the cards at the end of the 18th century. Although I am not a card reader, I have a large collection of these packs and just about all of them offer a different interpretation of tarot, assigning different meanings to the cards but present plenty of visual clues to those meaning in the artwork. Although many will suggest the Rider-Waite-Smith pack, I find it rather unattractive and based rather heavily in Waite’s occultism, particularly from the Golden Dawn. If divination is you thing, then I would suggest that you look for one with artwork that appeals to you personally.
The other use, less well known in the English speaking world, is for card games. This was what the cards were invented for in the mid 15th century. They were created by adding an extra suit of picture cards to a standard pack of playing cards. These extra cards actually took as their theme a Christian triumph procession, hence they were originally called trionfi, meaning triumphs and from which we get our word trump. It was the invention of tarot that marked the invention of trumps in card games – so, if you’ve ever played whist, bridge, or spades, tarot is their great, great, grandparent!
The games were at one time the most popular form of card game throughout continental Europe where they are still played. Most countries now use French suited tarot packs for the games, the trumps on these cards look very different, featuring all manner of things, depending on the country, from landmarks, rural scenes, Asterix, or national costumes.
However, Italy, Sicily, and Switzerland do still used the old Italian designs. A couple of these packs have a unique structure required for some of the games. In particular, there is the Tarocco Bolognese, also known as the Tarocchino, that has four special trumps, called the Four Moors. The Tarocchino games are perhaps the best card games in the world, especially ottocento.
If you are interested in the rules and the cards used to play the games, you can visit these two sites:
http://www.tarocchino.com
http://www.pagat.com
You can find an excellent range of cards for both reading and game play here:
http://www.playingcardsales.co.uk
http://www.alidastore.com
and in the US:
http://www.tarobearslair.com
Hello Shelby
There are many Tarot decks on the market – thousands.
Rider Waite are the most common, but go for a deck you like the look of as it is you who will have to build a relationship with them.
You can get them from Amazon, if not do a search, plenty of on line shops, & of course bookshops & new age/spiritual shops sell them. Within the pack you will get a small booklet, so yes buy a book that also calls to you for more insight.
Join the forum below if you wish, there is a low cost Tarot Course as well as 5 Tarot rooms which are free to enjoy.
Sadhara