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That's very helpful. I think I've been confused because so much of the lore around The High Priestess is about 'intuition' ...and the reversed card is supposed to indicate faulty intuition, or even too much reliance on intuition. So what I'm feeling is actually incorrect? Umm. That's very hard to pinpoint. Your interpretation of the upright card, to calm myself and use all the knowledge I've accumulated over the years to affect my attitude makes a lot more sense. And then of course, the reversed would mean NOT taking the time to calm myself and reflect on what I actually know. In other words, The High Priestess is not so much the correctness or incorrectness of what my intuition tells me, but it's about how I access that intuition. I will work harder on this card, when it comes up in readings. Thanks!

Hi there, @witchcraft Welcome to the forum. Yeah, it can be quite daunting, I imagine, if you're just starting out. Yikes. I've been on this forum for quite a while now, and still find some of it overwhelming. I guess the trick is to zero in on parts of the forum that are helpful to a person who is not only new to the forum, but new to Tarot as well. Because you use a pip deck, you will find that you WILL need to refer to your booklet that came with the deck. Pip cards, while decorative, are not easy for a beginner to interpret without reference material. (No pictures to give you an idea of what the card might mean.) So, by all means, use your booklet until you become familiar with your deck. Either that, or maybe invest in a deck that illustrates all the card meanings? It's a matter of opinion, but my opinion is that it's easier to get started on learning card meanings when a card's meaning is directly illustrated on the card itself. If you like Anime, you can search for decks that employ Anime, but illustrate all the cards. I'm sure they exist. I have found one particular part of the forum to be very helpful. If you go to the section marked Forums, at the top of any page, click on that and scroll down to Tarot Talk and Technique, then choose Individual Card Meanings, you will find lots of discussion and information about particular cards. These entries are not in any particular order, so you might have to search a bit for a particular card, but I really enjoy this section of the forum as it's thoughtful, usable, and easy to access. All the best! :)

Thanks @Sar. He was a good man, a safe man, a good environmentalist, good to animals, a good artist, and most of all a good friend. He will be sorely missed. @alethian I've been contemplating recently that the first card could refer to what's already been, whether it's the past or something from the past coming up for review, sort of like a Mercury retrograde. Our present has something to do with our past.

Welcome to our little Tarot corner of this world.

My condolences. <3

Thanks glad to meet you both I'm still new to learning tarot Right now I am using a Rider Waite Smith deck but the books I'm finding use other decks or are in black and white. Do you know of tarot books that have image references to this deck in colour?

Welcome @witchcraft you are setting out on a wonderful life-long experience where there is always a new discovery. My advice would be to get a journal for the deck. Write what you want the deck to do in the cover or on the first page; Shuffle the deck while concentrating on your intention (doing readings which help others, for self development etc). This puts your energy into the cards and puts it out to your spirit guides and teachers etc as to what you'll do with that deck. This may change over time, and you will probably have other deck/s as you grow, but working consistently and deeply with one deck really has power. You can then apply those meanings to other decks. Pull a card daily or weekly. Then describe the card in your journal. This way you know the card's imagery, but you can also add ideas about what comes to your mind when you're looking at the card. This will start you off well. You may not understand why a card means what it does in standard interpretations, but over time you will. To begin with, it needs to make sense to you, which is why journaling will help. Good luck. Stick with it.

Welcome to the community @Lakewater Glad you found us here 😀

Glad you found us here @witchcraft We promise we don't persecute witches 🧙‍♀️, everyone is welcome here 😃 You can use tarot in whatever way is meaningful for you. We all have different beliefs about it. Some people do use it in a secular way. It has many myths and superstitions about it and I think to not be afraid about it. You might like these older discussions to browse sometime about superstition and the tarot....

Also don't want to overwhelm further but you might find these suggestions helpful @witchcraft Take anything that's useful from it!

@witchcraft if you want to get to 5 posts, you are welcome to reply to people's introduction threads and welcome them as well as this thread 😊 When you are starting out, it's fine to refer to the book. You are learning the cards. You might need to refer to your study materials to learn. It's worth keeping a journal or writing down any ideas you want with the cards. You might take something from the image or it triggers something with you. When you get to 5 posts, you can start a journal thread for yourself here and use it however you want! So you can write your own posts to yourself. About the forum, you are always welcome to post on old threads that is fine and add to the discussions. Also you are welcome to start your own. Also it's aimed for everyone, so please don't feel overwhelmed. There are all levels here. Some people read on fiction, like reading a book or watching a TV series? Reading on a character or how will the mystery turn out in the end? Who was the killer? That sort of thing. Can you get the ending with the tarot before you get to it?

Welcome back @Rachelcat 😀

Hi everybody! Thanks as always, @fire cat pickles . This week for me will be Tarot in Space Cosmic Zen. It’s a birthday gift from my son and daughter-in-law (along with two other decks I’ve decided not to add to my collection. But I enjoyed checking them out!) It’s a cute comic book style-deck. When I went to the creator’s site to grab the companion pdf, I found out it’s based on the creator’s own Hitchhiker’s Guide-esque novel series, The Audacity by Carmen Loup. (Insert obligatory envy-hating of talented people who can both write and illustrate here.) An abducted earthling becomes a rocket racer in a rocket named The Audacity and of course saves the universe along the way. There are four books, and I’ve almost finished the first. Funny and engaging. And more so because of the illustrations in the cards! Suits are rockets, comets, lasers, and planets. Courts are ensign, lieutenant (all androids), night captain, and day captain. (Oh, and the cards have messages in an “alien” phonetic alphabet, but I haven’t figured that out yet.) Let’s see what the deck has to say for itself! Seems like a lot of celebration here! And a lot of rockets/fire! What is your most important characteristic? Four of Rockets May the protagonist and Xan her alien friend celebrate a racing win. The deck is all about a fun tarot organization (4) of the energy (rockets) of the stories. What is your strength? Ten of Rockets It seems like the stories could be too ephemeral to carry an entire tarot, but it has the ability pull it off. Your weakness? Lieutenant of Rockets Meta: So far, I’ve only encountered one android in the story, and it was in the junkyard. Maybe the deck has flown too far away from its source material? What can you teach me? Six of Rockets More May and Xan celebration. The deck can teach me to loosen up and enjoy the wins. How can I learn it? Six of Comets Pair of sixes. Young earthling May accepts a premonitory flower from an (alien) stranger. I can learn to enjoy my wins by being open to receive them even if they don’t look like what I’m expecting. What will be the outcome of our work together? Three of Planets And even more togetherness. May and Xan welcome the hyper-rational Listay as a member of their racing team. Speaking of working together! The whimsy of the deck will blend and work well with my more rationalize and generalized tarot knowledge to be a good team. Love it! We’ll see how it reads this week and how I enjoy the rest of the stories.

Thank you for having that linked! I'll put it in my to-do!

The Deck Library Index is here - https://www.thetarotforum.com/library/ (I had it saved) We'll sort out the menus and stuff in time 😃

I realise the upgrade has borked things - but when you have a minute - the deck library is now fairly useless; it isn't possible any more to get a simple list of the decks in it, and trying to find one through the images/albums simply doesn't work. If you are looking for a deck you don't know well, you aren't going to locate it by an image, and trying to work out which album it should be in - again, you have to know the deck to find it that way - and in the case I just tried - I can't work out which album it would be in if it were there. Please tell me there is a way to get the simple lists back.

Hey @witchcraft , I'm sorry you had problems joining and thank you for updating us and what worked for you. I've put your posts together here in this thread to reply to you. We think there was a problem in the forum software, because a small minority of members joining started having problems getting past the security check. We just did this big forum update and hopefully this is now fixed in this update. It had numerous fixes. Anyway thank you for letting us know and glad you got into our community in the end. Thank you for your patience 😃

I love this deck and use it a lot. I never read LWBs unless I am terminally confused by a deck (see under Hexen 5, for instance.)

Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 470: Jul. 6 - Jul. 12 - Deck of the Week - Tarot, Tea, & Me - A Tarot Reader's Community

A unique version of Reading Circle for those who would like to work through their collection of decks, participants choose decks from their collections to work with for the week. Some use one deck, others use two or more. Some combine methods: Tarot, non-tarot (e.g. oracle), playing cards, or any other divinatory method is welcome. All we ask is that you use at least one tarot or oracle deck. No collection is too large or too small. The only rules we have are the Tarot, Tea & Me Rules; Be respectful of one other. Please join us! Please post with your choice of deck(s) for the week Chat away about your deck, how you're finding it (or not), etc., it's all up to you Participants may either choose to share their readings here in this discussion thread or opt to have their own journal in the Journals Forum and link it here Yet others may even have an offline journal in paper & pencil/pen form Share as often, as much, or as little as you like. You can drop in and out at any time—reality and life permitting. New to tarot? Long time reader? Come on in! Participants fire cat pickles: Tarot de la Rea Rachelcat: Tarot in Space Cosmic Zen Click here for DOTW 469 (6/29-7/5)

Welcome to the newest upgrade of the Invision Community Forums! It was a heck of an update to get us situated and current, as you maybe could tell the forum was down for the night. I do apologize for that part; it was a silly oopsie that I have since figured out. It's going to be an adjustment, as they made so many changes, so I apologize, as I know change is hard—for me too. Take your time in adjusting, and we can learn how to make this work out for us. I still have to hunt down plugins and make sure those are right, so please let me know what isn't working and is missing over in the tech support! ~LF FIX LIST: medals/trophies (in progress) mark as read (in progress)

Welcome! From my experience, this forum is great for everybody, no matter where we are right now on our tarot journey. Which is never-ending anyway. There is no tarot police, whatever you do is okay. Referencing the booklet, or a book, or not doing so at all - it's all okay. The learning effect is maybe greater if you try to do your own interpretation first, write it down and then compare with what's written in the book. But it's not necessary. The traditional meanings of the cards have developed over time, depending on the time and place the cards were used and who created the deck. There are different traditions; in the English-speaking world, the Waite=Smith tradition is dominant. Its card meanings were not only influenced by tradition but also by astrological associations. If you're interested, you can dive into that knowledge, but many people are good tarot readers without astrological knowledge. While the meanings of the trump cards are the same in nearly every deck, there is more variation among the suit cards. Each suit has a theme or character of its own, usually based on the four ancient elements, and each numbered card also has numerological associations. All these associations also influence the meaning of the card. If you don't have questions about your own life, one way of working with the cards is asking questions about historical or fictive characters and situations, but also sports or politics or your own past. Yes-or-No-questions are possible, but you may get better result from open-ended questions. Some people get better results with general questions, others with very concrete questions, you'll have to try this for yourself. One-card-readings are very useful, and many people recommend starting, like you do, with a card-per-day exercise. Draw it in the morning, look at it, keep it open, and in the evening, ask yourself: did I meet the mood or energy of this card anywhere today? Simple three-card readings are also great because they give you a bit more information, and you can see how the cards interact. There are tons of ideas for three-card spreads, from Past/Present/Future, Mind/Body/Spirit or Root/Problem/Solution to whatever interests you. Many people work without spread positions and just look at the overall picture the three cards generate. You can simply try every idea that comes to your mind. Just playing with the cards is a good way of getting to know them. I have always found that picking cards can be as helpful as drawing a card. For example, you can ask yourself: how do I want this job interview to go?, and then go through the deck and take out three or four cards that show the answer. Don't overthink it, just look at them and see what comes up. Then, put these outcome cards together and think about them. There are reasons why you picked them. You may wish to take a picture of these cards together and look at them before and after the job interview. Who is my mother as a tarot card? my father? my best friend? Again, find the cards without looking at the book. First, pick the card or cards, and only then read about their meanings. I found the advice of writing everything down to be very useful for me. No matter whether you use a note-taking app or a paper journal, it will help you learn to get the tarot better. You'll keep track of your insights and won't lose them. As a newbie, you have the chance of developing your own associations with the cards, and that's great. You can also write here on the boards about your card and get input from others. There is a great reading circle for beginners here where you can read for others and get feedback. It's often easier to get a clear reading when you read for a stranger. Reading for ourselves, we all have our biases 😉 There are tons of material about the tarot on these boards, online and in books. And it's your choice whether you use it or rely on your own wisdom and intuition; you can change your focus whenever you want. The most important thing is to work with a deck that speaks to you with a clear voice, where each card has a distinct character. Nowadays, there are so many decks that it may seem impossible to find one. The usual advice is to stick with a Waite-Smith tradition deck because there are so many good resources about these decks, but many people have started with different decks. Even if everybody loves a certain deck and recommends it - if you find it ugly, dry or uninteresting, you don't have to follow the advice. Tastes differ. The deck library here on the forum is a great resource if you're looking for a deck that resonates with you. There are also great apps where you can work with different decks to see how they work for you before you invest in buying one. There is no pressure and no end-of-year exam. Tarot is an open art, and it's a language that anyone can learn. The fun for me is in the learning, not the knowing. Because with every reading, you start anew. Enjoy the journey!

Hello @Lakewater welcome to the TT&M Family

Hello @witchcraft welcome to the TT&M Family

Hi @witchcraft, and welcome. I think you can easily use tarot for reflection without being worried about inviting bad energy. But then, I'm someone who believes that it's about you and what you bring to tarot; the cards are a tool not the source. People see it different ways though (which is good, the whole point of having a forum to exchange ideas 🙂 ) so I'm sure you can also find advice here on dealing with those concerns if they come up. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it here.