Tarot Talk & Technique

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I started with tarot last month, and just borrowed a deck. Today I got my own! Rider waite. What shall I do with it? Shuffle? Put it in the sun? Use it? What? ;D ;D ;D

While reading "Tarot Stellar" by Christiana Gaudet, I came across a very interesting exercise that consisted in separating the four aces from the rest of the deck and ask which one better describes your reading style. I found it quite useful to help us think thoroughly about our reading style and how can we better put our strengths out there so they can shine. I am an Ace of Pentacles and I couldn't agree more. What is your Ace reading style and how do you think it relates to you?

ratty asked this in another thread "I need to buy some new jeans, my old ones are getting a bit tatty, but I can't decide what colour. What colour do you think I should get?" it was kind of the extreme of a trivial question for after all the colour would be kind of personal to the situation, for conjecture here.. I imagine if I did a celtic cross on this,, and I looked at the beneath you card it would deal perhaps why a certain colour might be your favourite.. this is behind you,, perhaps it might look at why you are changing your colour schemes, to this is above you, perhaps It might point to what is you best colour or reversed, why a colour wouldn't work on …

How do this when there is something you want to work through or tease out, and it's in regards to something going on in your life, but you want to make sure you have a clear head when you do a reading for yourself? Or do you just simply ask someone else to do the reading for you?

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I'm finding the advice the cards give sometimes confusing/contradicting and I sometimes feel like they tell me things I'm expecting to hear in the moment that isn't necessarily the right answer. I did a reading on if I should let go of this person I've liked for a while and how to. I thought they were with someone else so I thought it was for the best. I got 7 of cups, 8 of cups, and six of swords. I took that to mean that I need to stop holding onto a fantasy that's not going to come true and move on/ walk away from the situation. A few weeks later I went for drinks with them and found out they are in fact single so I considered telling them I liked them and did ano…

Hello. I'm doing a celtic cross for someone, and I got 8 wands in "this crosses you" and wheel of fortune in the result. It has never happened to me before to get both these cards in the same reading. Is this some strong message about fate? Or, as I think, has fate crossed this person, but will also help them out? It is a love reading, about a specific person who has wronged the sitter badly. I also got death and the star, so I think the sitter will choose to end the relationship. Thank you so much for any insight <3

I hope this is the right place to post! Does anyone have any suggestions for resources or advice on using Tarot and Oracle decks together? I am curious to start using the two together for a little more insight, however, I have had a hard time thinking of the how. I was thinking perhaps doing a spread with Tarot and using Oracle cards as a clarifier of sorts? Apart from that, I am drawing a blank as to how to use them together.

I was just curious as to how many people here use their cards to speak with spirits? I’m considering trying to use my deck to communicate with my spirit guides.

Pretty much everyone seems to agree that a Tarot reading isn't going to give you the next winning lottery numbers, or the name of the horse that will win today's race, or the closing price for XYZ stock on Wednesday next week. If that's true, then what, exactly, does the Tarot tell you about the future? I think it works this way: Events seem to flow as a sort of continuum, with the past seen as effecting the present, and the present thought to have some influence on the future. So, by examining the present, and coming to see it from different perspectives, expectations for the future may be focused, and the scope of those expectations may be narrowed. Based on such…

I just saw this in an online store. I was surprised that they're actually a thing. So has anybody actually used them? How were they like - were they effective? Which brand/s did you use, and would you recommend them? I don't know if they're available locally, but if they're really good I might import some to test them.

It was pointed out to me the other day that nine of cups could be read as be careful what you wish for: what we believe we want isn't what we actually want. I have always thought that the defensive nature of the nine of wands is down to being caught out in a lie. There's a fake it till you make it aspect. The nine of swords can be seen as worry over nothing or getting things totally out of proportion. In all three cases there's an element of wrong belief/representation. It's not just that there's something missing, it's a disconnect with reality. With raises the obvious question. What about the nine of pentacles? It's easy to talk about what's missing, but is there als…

I should use my cards to ask! I got an email update from the Majestic Earth project. beautiful but I don't think I pledged. Is there a way on KS to see what I've backed? I think I've only done three. this is the deck.

Hi so I had an interaction with a friend today and it was a little awkward. Later I asked my deck if my friend was having an off-day and I pulled the hanged man. I think that definitely means they weren’t feeling like their normal selves. Does anyone have any other interpretations?

What does it mean when five of cups and two of swords show up together as feelings towards someone?

Anyone else have a deck with a sense of humour? I was having a particularly bad start to the day so asked my cards what I should I know about the day ahead. I drew one card. Knight of pentacles. Yeah, ok, steady steady, my day needs some patience and caution. Yeah yeah! Then, feeling a bit fed up, I ask the cards to show me something to cheer me up. I shuffle again and pull one card. The Knight of Pentacles. Thanks a lot. ;) ;D Very funny!!!

Tarot is an intuitive medium. I view the tarot as sparking the reader's intuitive faculties by reminding them of various archetypes, of the human condition and common tropes. To me intuition is a faculty of the mind, a pattern recognition system of the subconscious that lets us connect apparently unrelated things. Consequently, for me, when inspiration strikes from the blue it comes from within. When I read tarot, I believe the answers come from within too, or at least how I apply the spread to the external question. For others, when inspiration strikes with no apparent source it is a reflection of the divine. It comes from outside. The universe is speaking. Is this…

For readers who use reversals - how do you interpret a spread where all or a significant majority of the cards drawn are reversed? This is not highly statistically improbable so this sometimes happen to me. For 3-card spreads there is a 1 in 8 chance of this happening while for 5 cards it's 1 in 32. So yeah, how would you personally read this?

If you have a close friend or family member who also read the Tarot, and who'd not be averse to letting you use their decks if you'd extend them the same courtesy, would you let them use the decks that you personally own? Would you be open to sharing your wholly collection with them, are there some decks that you may be willing to lend to them while others are strictly off-limits, or is anyone touching your deck strictly verboten to you?

What do you look for in a deck? What attracts you to this deck but not that one? Have you noticed a difference between the decks that don't work for you after all when you've gotten them home and in your hands, and the ones that sync up with you pretty much instantly? Is it an art style? Symbolism? Something harder to define? And just in general - what makes you buy a deck? What's your taste in tarot? Traditional? Or the complete opposite? Rich oil-painting colours, or pastels? Do you like photographic decks, like the Starchild or David Bowie tarots, or ones where every card's art was originally painted by hand? And why do you like what you like? I just find it fas…

So the point of this thread is I want to hear people's actual experiences with this cards in relation to readings they have regarding attraction. I've done so many readings for ppl where the devil came up in the position of the person's attraction. I see many threads about it on the net but lots of ppl are talking based on assumption of the card. So basically, if a person asks if someone is attracted to them, and they get this card, have you found it does mean that person is sexually obsessed with the querent? Or do you see more anger and jealousy and hatefulness instead. Thank you.

Hi there, Im working with my favourite deck to attempt to reconnect back with my cards. Its been a while and im looking deeper into significant symbols that occur on my cards to gain their meanings to the card in hand. I've chosen to focus on the Swords suit recently, and im working with the Silver Witch Tarot. Its usual depiction of a woman, blindfolded, with two balanced swords are there, however it appears to have roses on her right (cards left) and lilies on her left (cards right). Both are slightly frozen. Could this signify the sitters vunerability with this card in play? Thoughts welcomed :D

The five of cups is my card of the day. I'm working with a 1928 printing of Tarocco Piemontese this week. I made my peace with mentally transposing pictorial cards onto the pips, but in my heart I feel guilty about doing so My 5 of cups, conflicted, this morning led me to wonder how You read pips. And why that method. I don't believe there were any books on TdM pips when I entered the tarot world.