How YOU CAN Read Tarot Cards Easily!

Posted Jun 09, 2009 by joannalenae / comments 0 comments / Print / Font Size Decrease font size Increase font size

Do you have a deck of Tarot cards but are tired of flipping through the tiny book that came with them? You can read cards easily by following a few simple steps. Use this method to give great readings and learn the cards more quickly!

  1. Be sure you relate to your deck. If it holds your attention, others may find it interesting too. If the deck doesn't appeal to you visually, look at as many others as possible. Go to several stores. Look online. Choose the one that really grabs you at first sight. The more the cards appeal to you, the more quickly you will remember their associations and meanings. See if there is supplementary reading for the deck you choose. You might try used book stores.

  1. Separate the Major Arcana from the Minor.
  2. Shuffle each set of cards, cut them and lay them out in rows of three across, seven down with one card to the side. This will use all of the Major Arcana but leave some excess Minor Arcana cards. Set these aside in a pile.
  3. Make a list of the cards you've laid out. Pick a word that best describes each and write it down beside them.
  4. Look at the pictures on the cards. What do they suggest to you? Identify a narrative pattern, as though you are looking at a book of illustrations and trying to find the story. The patterns can go across, down, diagonally or first to last. The card to the side signifies the most important element of the situation.
  5. Ask yourself which situations in your life, or in the life of the person whose cards you are reading, the cards seem to be alluding to.
  6. Next, look for narrative patterns that offer alternatives to the end first perceived; things that could make the situation better or worse.
  7. Consider the words you've assigned to each of the cards. How do these apply to the stories you've identified?
  8. Put it all together and combine your perceptions from the above steps into one reading. You might be amazed at how much more accurate the reading is than when you use the deck's guide.
  9. Remember that if at some point a card feels like it has a different meaning to you than what the book says, go with that meaning! That is perfectly okay since that is really how you are supposed to read tarot cards as you become more experienced. Just let the cards speak to you.

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