Tarot Talk & Technique

Just curious, does anyone here have and rituals they do with their cards during the full or new moons? I am starting something new tonight where I plan on putting my cards in order during the new moon of each month to reset the energies. If anyone else has traditions like this I'd love to hear about it!

Have you ever found that your decks seem to have chosen a card that actually represents the deck? The same way you may find signifiers for yourself or others in your life within the deck, I find that the deck often has a card that really seems to just show the personality of the deck itself. For example, Archeon Tarot personifies itself with The Magician. When working with the deck, it's like I have The Magician from this deck conjuring up the images for me to see. Shadowscapes is also an interesting one, being very Queen of Cups. She steps down from the cosmos, bringing all the love and wisdom of the universe with her. Do your decks personify themselves i…

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Hi everyone, I'm new here and pretty new to tarot as well (only a few weeks). I wanted to ask for some insight on a reading and it's going to be a bit of a long one as it's 2 interpretations of a spread so I hope some of you will stay with me! I watched this video on Youtube – just general reading obviously – but I felt the woman was way off with her interpretations of them and the question that was being asked. She has a lot of subscribers (and is obviously a lot more experienced than me), but based on the cards I really can't understand how she came to the conclusion she did and wanted to ask for other opinions. The question was, “Has they moved on? Do they…

When I was younger I had an origami calendar that gave you a figure to fold each day. I was hoping to find something along those line, but with tarot spreads. Maybe a book or website. Any recommendations?

Hey there! What tools do you pros like when rounding off the square corners on some tarot decks? I heard someone once mention some Japanese corner cutter...any suggestions? And I don’t want to use scissors, so let’s leave that one off the list (;

Hi all! I wonder how do you guys link cards together? I use RW tarot cards and am not a pro (also new to this forum as well). It has always been hard for me to link them together to read cards “like a story”. I know that I’m supposed to find things in common but sometimes it’s very hard to do so! any recommendations? thanks! yalda

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Hello, I am new to this website and tarot in general. I've been trying to learn tarot(mostly for personal reading) last couple months. I had a deck which was not mine previously(belonged to my mother as far as i know, which she barely used and the deck has been gathering dust in my room in the last 10 years.) and i thought it would be okay to start with this deck to learn basics. So i started reading tarot for myself and i didn't seem to have any issues with picking cards and reading them(even though i use internet and books for meanings most of the time :)). But today something odd happened, something i overlooked all these months. I found two copies of same card in my d…

So I recently bought a new deck that I absolutely adore (the Ethereal Visions Illuminated Tarot) and have done a few readings with it so far. But what I really want to know is what else I can do with it to get to know it better besides reading the LWB cover to cover and feeling the energy of it as I look over and bond with the deck and it's gorgeous imagery.

I've always wondered whether whether the person getting a Tarot reading asks their central query aloud or whether the Tarot reader has to intuit what the querent wants from the reading. I've read quite a few guides but this aspect has never been covered in detail. I'm obviously a beginner and would be fascinated to hear member's views 🙂

This is a bit of a silly question, but I'm curious to hear what you all do with decks that come in those gigantic kit boxes - like the Forest of Enchantment or the Everyday Witch. The boxes are beautiful, but man, they are too big (for me) to cart around, and they sadly don't come up with a smaller folding box inside. I put my decks in bags, but I'm paranoid they'll still get banged up if they're not in a box. What do you all do with them? Elastic? Lead box? Protection spells? 😆

How accurate is a tarot reading and would it apply to me if a person, who does not know my name or my date of birth, or how I look, but to whom I have shared my concerns about a particular topic, decides to do a reading for me on their own initiative? And in such a case, since I did not ask them to do the reading, should I be required to pay with money?

This is something I have been thinking about recently and a subject for the more spiritual /astrology following/ Moon cycle following readers. Traditionally there is a belief you shouldn't do readings when the Moon is Void of Course. In traditional astrology, it's advisable to not start something new, try to get factual information or communication or divine. It's a window to prepare but not do, because the Moon is in an energetically weak position. Will explain the concept first - The Moon takes 29.5 days to go through all the signs in her (pretty fast) cycle and she spends 2.5 days on average in each sign. Some people follow these cycles in their lives…

Tarot Card Combinations?

What do you guys use to make your decks? I used makeplayingcards.com to make my Eternal Raven Oracle Deck but it got kinda pricey...

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I mean readings where you ask things like : what can I do to catch that person attention, so they like me? Or What should I do to recover my ex back? That sort of thing that seems "forced" Do you do that kind of readings? I have learned in my tarot journey and in my life that not everything will be as one wants, but then... I rather like asking things like "What are their feelings about me?" Would they want to back with me again (have a relationship ? And then if the answer is yes maybe ask for further advice. Advice readings to improve ourselves.. I support those.

A question for y'all based on what we know about ancient temples... For context, almost all ancient temples were built with paramount importance placed on the optical play of light and shadow. This was particularly true when aligned with the movement of sun and/or stars, but regardless temples were almost never oriented arbitrarily or constructed without intentional visual manipulation of pilgrims' subconscious experience. In short, visual staging was a key part of religious experience vis-à-vis ancient temples. Fast forward to today and how you interact with Tarot. Beyond just ritual, do you intentionally manipulate light and shadow when doing…

When I do reading I never done reading with reverse card . And I can't understand it as well . I only read energies and try to channeling the situation. Is it mandatory to read reverse card?

I seem to have started a habit of running multiple decks. I've been using the Druidcraft to guide my current spiritual journey, so when I wanted to do a daily draw about day-to-day feelings about things, I chose my old Spiral (or sometimes the Housewives. Did I mention it's an underrated deck? It always nails it.) The other deck that I use with specific intent is the Rohrig, which I usually get out if I need a creativity-related reading, though I'm thinking the Blake may take over that role. Do you use decks consistently for particular things? Or pick a deck depending on your specific question? Edited the title to try to better reflect …

I'd like to start jotting down my thoughts on tarot, but I'm not sure which medium to use. Any thoughts on the differences between a TT&M private blog, public blog, and library journal thread?

Hello! Could you please help me? I'm very worried. I went to see a woman who read tarot cards for me. She told me bad things about the future and how I have my mother's karma, which will cause all my relationships to fall apart for no reason. How far into the future do tarot cards typically show? Don't they usually predict up to a year at most? Is there any way to change my future?