Tarot Talk & Technique

How do you know the meaning of a card? Did you memorize the first LWB you came across? Read stacks of books? Practice magick? just believe what people told you? Learn the basic components of the card itself and discern the meaning for your self? Just look at the pictures and go with that? What gives you the certainty that you aren't just guessing, or grabbing ideas out of the air?

Here's the video: It raises important questions about how comfortable the tarot community appears to be with non-diverse decks. There's a much needed larger discussion that needs to happen around this, but being a Nosy Nellie I'm very curious about which deck she's talking about. What do you think?

Hi All, I'm in this forum for the first time. I have been in the tarot topic for over half a year now. When I first received my tarot reading - I did not like it - I changed the path of my life, thoughts and I started meditation, visualisations and so on. After 3-4 months, I had another readings and it seemed that i changed my "former destiny". I did not ask the same questions, but yes - I was talking about the same topic, but in close cooperation with the tarot card readers who used different cards and we did not ask the same questions. I talked to 3 people or even 4. The results they gave were practically the same and they gave almost the same time for the fulfillme…

We've all heard of reading the future, but has anyone delved into reading about the past? Not exactly reading about past lives, more like readings about events that happened a decade ago, or a hundred years ago. I would be interested if anyone can link me to any articles or texts about the topic. It doesn't seem like a lot of people have an interest in the past, other than their own past lives. And I'm not interested in finding anything specific in the past myself, just curious about the topic.

Gregory sent me some loose cards for my patchwork decks project (Thank Yu!) but a couple are not identified. Can anyone help with these (descriptions only for now, photos later if we're all really stuck) There's a single card from a deck which has an outstanding back design showing a little boy in a space suit floating above a planet, with xmas parcels floating about? The card is 18 - has a lot of xmas themed symbols, boy in space helmet making a snowman, I'm thinking this is some specific xmas themed deck but I don't know it. Anyone? There are 2 cards from a deck with a William Morris type fabric print as the back design. Very much fine art painting style to the f…

Tarot & Boxes When it comes to buying or, if say, a person was a collector: A Does a Tarot deck devalue a lot if there isn't any box. B Devalue somewhat if the box has signs of shelf wear or any light wear and tear. Eg Discoloration/Scratches. C Does not lose value if all the cards are there in perfect condition. Box or No box. Been wondering this for a wee while... DND X/

Hi, I'm new here! Before this I know about tarot from a digital tarot app back then in 2017 or 2018, iirc. Back then I was so sceptical but now I started to learn tarot again and so obsessed! I wonder is there anyone here using a digital tarot deck? If you are, then do you feel any difference between physical and digital tarot on the reading result? I understand that the experience will ofc different because the digital card is, uh, cannot be touched. But a digital deck is handy and practical. What would you think?

A serious personal story: About 25 years ago, I read tarot for a man on the cusp of homelessness, Outside a cafe. Complete stranger. While I was just beginning to slowly charge for my services, he saw me studying my Thoth, sat down across from me, and simply said, "please." Agitated and dirty, gaunt and exhausted, I saw the despondency on his face as I had him take three deep breaths, felt his suffering as I shuffled. He and his girlfriend were being evicted in three days time. I pulled just one card, and began to speak about the definition as I understood from my books. I completely missed the mark, as I yet did not yet understand the full process of interplay…

I'm posting this here in Tarot, but actually the subject could be related to any oracle. I have been debating a lot the actual usefulness of daily readings. I see them being recommended as a form of practice to get more used to certain oracle and, ideally, I can understand how it works. If you use a language everyday you'll become more fluent, more able to discern subtleties in communication etc. My idea when doing daily readings has always been to exercise that. However... in all my times doing daily readings, past and present, I have found them to be very difficult to interpret properly. The times I got something accurate were also times in which…

How many here have the Celtic Cross as their GENERAL go to in readings for themselves and/or others? I know it can depend on the type of reading, what a client may want, what they wish to know, but how many tend to use the Celtic Cross more than other spreads? And, if not, is there a spread you use more than others?

I recently started working with my decks again, and am struggling hardcore with one deck. I have a copy of the Samhain Deck of the Bastard that I purchased in 2014, and I feel like I need an eye exam anytime I try to use it. The images are so dark and muddled that even fluorescent lights right over me don't help in illuminating the imagery, let alone the keywords I had her print on the cards for me. I don't know if the copy I received is just slightly darker than some of the images online, or if that's how they are meant to look. But I find myself regretting buying it, because it isn't legible for me. I showed it to my husband and he also struggled to read the cards, whic…

Hello Everyone- This morning was the first time I have ever used a significator...The reading was on behalf of my husband, although I asked the question...I have always felt that choosing a significator was strange. But, over the years that I have been studying Tarot, I have begun to associate a specific card with my husband, It personifies his personality and thus I choose the 10 of Wands. My question is this: Has anyone personified a particular card to an actual person that isn't a Court Card? TIA

Hi 👋 I hope I’m posting to the correct forum... When you ask your deck for clarification regarding the cards in your spread, how do you do so? Do you shuffle and cut the deck again? Do you continue pulling from the same stack? Or do you have other ways to help quench your curiosity? I really appreciate your input! 😊 Thanks! -A

Do you put your Tarot/Oracle/Lenormand/etc decks to the test? Do you try to see if they're accurate by using them to predict events that are of no import to you like the winner in a tennis match for example, or who would win in a reality show, or who will ultimately survive in a slasher flick? For some readers this is just par for the course. For others it is a bit disrespectful, like you are using the cards for trivial things or you don't fully trust them.

I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on this please, as a newbie trying to figure all this out! I am learning with the RWS. I really like the imagery and feel it's assisting with my learning. I have a few other Tarot decks which I bought predominantly for the imagery, but want to build my relationship with the RWS first and feel more comfortable with the card meanings before branching out. Out of curiosity though, I compared The Fool card from the RWS with the one from the Starchild Tarot (Akashic version), which is called 'Starseed' in that deck. Whilst the meanings from the Starchild LWB are similar as it's based on the RWS system, from ju…

I am not sure if this is the right section for this but I have been having this problem for quite a while and need help. I have been feeling disconnected from my cards lately. Every time I touch them, I feel like something is not quite right. It is like a I sense another energy on the cards. As if someone else has been reading with my cards. I knew some people allow others to use their cards and they are fine after using them. Is it possible that if someone is using m cards, for me to feel their energy while using it or could it be something else. This feeling of disconnect has also caused me to not be able to read as well as before. Sometimes, I…

I know this is an increasingly nuanced question, but…what do you do when a reading (or your interpretation of it) doesn’t turn out? What do you learn? How do you deal with the feeling of (for lack of a better term) betrayal?

Hello everyone I've been wondering; do you need to study all of the "Big Three" decks - the RWS, the Thoth, and the TdM - in order to learn all there is to know about Tarot? I have the RWS, but to be honest, I've never really been attracted to the Thoth or the TdM. Lately though, I've been thinking that I should have them, just because they've been so prominent and influential in the history and development of Tarot. What do you think - is it enough to just study and work with decks you like and connect with, or is it essential to study the historical decks as well?

I came across this beautiful image that, apparently, belongs to a Tarot deck... Would anyone know which Tarot this belongs to, if any? Thank you so much. :D

In the various schools of thought on tarot, one old rule was that tarot cards needed to come to their owner indirectly, as the tarot cards needed to find their own owner. Do you adhere to this rule, and if so how do you come about attaining a new deck? Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

I'm a beginner. Sometimes I ask a question about a friend and the cards are very negative Hours later I ask the same question, I get a positive answer. Also when I ask "What's their karma for treating me poorly?" and the first card I get is "queen of pentacles". It's like they are going to get financial abundance after doing bad things to me. I've noticed that I usually get such jinxed up answers when I use tarot at night. Could someone please spread some light into what I might be doing wrong? Am I asking too many questions?

I am aware that Aleister Crowley created his own deck Thoth, but just how was it inspired by the RWS deck? I know that this is sort of a broad question, but are there similarities between the Thoth & the RWS deck? Whatever you want to share I am all ears.

I'm sure many have already noticed that the posts on the now closed Aeclectic Forums have no time/date stamps. Makes it very confusing to get an idea how new or old any of the posts are. I can't imagine why these would've been removed. ::) Any ideas?

I just learned that Stuart Kaplan, founder of US Games, passed away yesterday. Ciro Marchetti has made a lovely tribute video for him, maybe he will share it here as well @cirom

What did you do exactly to memorize the 78-card deck of the Tarot? Just curious. Rick