Tarot Talk & Technique

Hello - I am taking my first course in reading the tarot cards - what I am finding very confusing and frustrating is when I am asked to determine what a tarot card means (ex six of pentacles) without previously learning the meaning of the card... in other words using my intuition. This seems like a backward way of trying to learn tarot as I believe you need to learn the meanings of the cards first and then add the intuition in after that. I have tried to lay out all the major arcana and see a flow between cards but I don't see anything as I do not know what the cards represent. Am I right to want to learn the meanings first? I have talked to a couple of people who are…

I've been reading Tarot at a novice level for years, and only consult the cards when I have a concern that I simply cannot find the clarity to navigate on my own. I would like to really jump in at this point and develop a relationship with my cards... Study them, learn their nuances, develop an intuitive connection with them. This may seem silly, but I feel a bit wary about doing too many readings as I'm learning. It's as if I'm afraid of watering down the magic of them, or somehow taking the wisdom for granted. Has anyone ever felt this way? I would imagine that a devoted student would spend quite some time doing their own readings in order to begin to know e…

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I feel that her video is highly interesting and I have yet to figure out where I personally stand in all of this. She used to previously say "No" to all health related requests, and referring all such clients to medical professionals. Now she has had a change of heart and sees things in a different light. I will let her explain it in her own words, as to not misrepresent her standpoints. So make sure to watch the video! Now I would like to hear what everyone else thinks about this! Would you help someone with a health related question? Where do YOU draw the line? Is there a difference between merely exploring a topic (such as someones health status) and giving…

Benebell Wen has a new YouTube series called Sightsee the Tarot. Each video is a tour or mini workshop dealing with different books, techniques, spreads, decks and tips. So far she's covered - based on Katrina Wynne's book Transformative Tarot Counselling Eden Gray's for reading cards for prediction It's a great series and well worth watching. :)

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 ! What's your best advice to read Tarot cards. Thank you very much 💜 ✨️

Hi, I've been using Biddy online to look up meanings for Tarot and sometimes look up Youtube videos for individual cards, but I was wondering if anyone knows a great website for real noobs like me to learn Tarot? xP I'm looking for free tarot guide sites, even if it's from a blogger, and cheap, but effective tarot books. But I can't read wordy or high vocabulary books...my attention span sometimes shuts off or fly away, unfortunately... I'm someone that learns best when it affects my emotions...But I don't think there are tarot guidebooks like that lol, but I'm just looking for a good cheap guide for beginners that also talks about reversals. And if a book mentions…

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Hi - I’ve been looking at Biddy Tarot’s Mastering the Cards Meaning classes. Does anyone have an opinion on whether it’s worth the cost? I’ve recently picked up Tarot again after a very long break and feel it might help me refresh my knowledge. Thanks in advance xoxoxo

Just a head's up to anyone who has bought this book in the past, Biddy released the 3rd version of this popular book in it's digital format this week. She seems to be giving previous purchasers a free upgrade to the latest version :thumbsup: The first edition of the book was released in 2001 and second edition 2009, most people would have bought it directly from her website. This week she released the third edition, I had an email offering me to download the new file, so you should have an email with links to get the new version as well. It is offered in pdf, mobi and epub versions. Some people would have bought from the Amazon Kindle store and I presume you would…

I don't know if there is already an active thread discussing/studying birth year cards. If there is, could someone please point me to it? If not, I'd like to start one. (This one right here, if here is appropriate, or in another section of the Forum if that makes more sense.) Again, please advise! I was unfamiliar with birth year cards until recently. I just computed mine at https://labyrinthos.co/blogs/learn-tarot-with-labyrinthos-academy/how-to-calculate-your-tarot-birth-card-plus-short-birth-card-meanings-infographic and I couldn't be more blown away!

I recently came across the concept of birth cards. There are several websites where you type in your birthdate and get 2 cards that represent you. I'm curious if anyone knows the origin of this. Tradition or gimmick? My bday is March 12, 1980 and I got the Lovers and the Devil. I guess I'll take that as a balanced reading! LOL

I am surprised that I can't find this topic anywhere on the forum dedicated to Tarot. Maybe, because I am new to this forum and did not know where to look. But because it is not present, I have decided to bring it up. Let me explain what is my belief on this topic is. First of all, I believe a deck of Tarot to be a tool of occult work. And second, I believe that if someone is serious about their occult work, they should bless their tools. I both feel like dropping a sudden unnecessary long lecture. But I also want to know, is there anyone actually interested in it? By blessing, I mean a one time ritual that lasts several days. --------- --Edit-- --------- Sin…

For those of you who have a blog about tarot, what is it that you include in your blog? How often do you post? How did you start? I've been debating about blogging about my journey with tarot.

I’m currently reading Rachel Pollack’s “Tarot Wisdom: Spiritual Teachings and Deeper Meanings”. I was just thinking that it would be neat to either have a book club thread or create a book club group so that people who are interested can read the same Tarot book at a time and discuss it. Is that a thing already that I missed? If not, who wants to do that? I think it would be a really fun club. If we do it, may I suggest this book being the first? It’s AMAZING.

So yes then, Tomorrow I get through my Student Loan yeeeeh, and I want the tarot people on here to recommend me their favourite books on the cards. I intend to buy a few to keep me going through the long winter months. "78 Degrees" is one I'm definitely ordering at midnight tonight when the zeros will become a distant memory in my bank account. My interests are tarot & the kabbalah; Jung-ist influenced tarot; psychology and tarot; tarot magic & talisman; Golden Dawn influenced tarot book; and of course ye olde symbolism. But i'm open to anything, although bare in mind i'm pretty much a beginner so nothing too complex...although i did read the Book of Tho…

Hi, I'm quite new to Tarot and my journey I have decided to start with reading as much is possible and learn and meditate on cards. I want to use Tarot for self-development and finding more about my inner spirit and how to become a better person. I'm using Rider & Waite deck. The books I have read so far includes: Alejandro Jodorowsky - The Way of Tarot 78 Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack Meditation on Tarot Ultimate Guide to Rider Waite Tarot Any further reading recommendations and information how to find out more about my deck, increase the connection. Many thanks…

Hi guys, curious to hear if/how you consider and involve the bottom of the deck when dealing a spread. Recently, after dealing my spreads I have taken to revealing the card at the bottom of the deck for supplementary underlying energy for the situation. Sometimes I will quickly pass through the bottom 3-5 cards and tell myself a quick little summarized narrative to gather additional insight to consider. Interested to hear other approaches to this, and why you guys think it's important.

I've been under a rock and am just getting this one. What in the world do you call the cardstock? I'm impressed by the deck, the presentation, the companion digest...but my mind keeps whispering, is it rubber? haven't shuffled it yet, I'm still checking all the cards are here. thanks!

Sometimes I see some out of print decks or rarer decks on ebay and decks for cheaper too. I have never bought anything on there though. Maybe it’s just me or does ebay seem really sketchy? Have any of you bought a deck on ebay before? How did it go?

Hi tarot pals, I was wondering if any of you calculate the quint of a reading, how you do it and what you think it brings to the reading. I've been dabbling with it a little bit myself but I was curious to hear about your methods. So far I've been thinking about it as giving the reading an essence or a theme (these might be in the name of "quint"?) and I've been using the numbers of the Majors (The Fool hasn't come up yet but he might be 22 or else he is not counted as 0, poor Fool :( ) and the numbered Minors. The courts are numbered 11-14 for me to keep it simple. I sometimes do this with Lenormand too but I don't know if that is a separate discussion since it's a diffe…

I came across this site, today. Not sure if someone has already posted it, here. Searched for it and didn't find it, so here's the link https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/fandom-tarot-card-deck-guide/ Amazing Tarot artwork...

I guess Google tracks my every movement on my phone because when I go the app on my phone it has all these interesting news stories to show me from news, music and yes, all kinds of tarot stuff. So, one that came up yesterday for a yearly tarot reading for sagittarius, a one card reading, for me it was the 4 of Wands (I'm getting a lot of Wands lately), reversed. Well, the reader said that the 4oW is actually a good card even reversed. But my issue is, and maybe its just me, how can one card show what a year will be? It was the RWS deck by the way. I just don't think one card, or even two, maybe at least three can show a year. That person does seem to have a reg…

I've got lots of 'difficult' questions rattling round my head, and since I'm totally flummoxed, I thought I'd raise some of them here. :biggrin: First up: precognition. I know there's a range of opinions on this, but I don't know the rationale behind them. My fallback position is that this isn't what Tarot is about. The cards are drawn due to interaction between the personal and collective unconscious, so they can reveal a lot of detail about predictable events that are inevitable outcomes of the present situation... but time is still an undiscovered country. If the cards can really 'see' into the future, then it means that all events are predestined, and we have…