New here- advice on major arcana cards

[Blackcharliedog]

Hi, I’m new here, I started my journey with cards during the first lockdown. I often do my own cards as I’m trying to learn. This morning I have done my own reading, a Celtic cross (10) cards, 7 out of the 10 cards were major arcana cards, I’ve never had this many before, could anyone advise what this means? I’m going through a pretty difficult situation at present and had asked how the next few months will be. Am I allowed to discuss which cards I pulled? 
many thanks 

[AJ-ish/Sharyn]

Welcome!! we love new members. As this is posted, we can say whether Majors are majorly important 🙂

 

To give feedback on your reading, you need to post all the cards, (a picture is great too) put it in the Your Readings forum, and tell us which deck you used, and must include your take as best you can. Then we can help out with our opinions, bias, and kibitzing.. 

 

we can't give feedback/help until you reach that point. 

[Blackcharliedog]

Thank you. I’m finding the site a little difficult to navigate, how do I find the “your reading forum” ? In all honesty I have a deck from an online clothing store, it is called the modern tarot reader by Claire goodchild? Do I need a better deck? Still completely new to it all . Many thanks 

[katrinka]

https://www.thetarotforum.com/forums/forum/99-personal-tarot-readings/

 

I'm not familiar with the deck, so I googled it. It's pretty, but it might be a tough starter deck.

https://tarotavenue.com/the-modern-tarot-reader-deck-review/

(Rider Waite Smith gets recommended as a beginner deck a lot. Most books deal with that one. And just about everybody is familiar with the images, so it's easy to talk about in a group setting. But there's lots of other great decks out there that are good to start with.)

 

As for getting all those Majors - and I am NOT interpreting your cards for you, just talking in the general sense - getting mostly Majors usually indicates that the situation is out of your hands, you have to ride it out and "let the chips fall", so to speak. It'll pass, in time. There's an old Tarot writer named Eudes Picard who said the Majors are causes and the Minors are effects, and I tend to agree. It's much easier to change effects than causes. 

 

[Blackcharliedog]

Thank you for your help. Much appreciated. 

[Blackcharliedog]

I will definitely look into that deck. That’s the side of things that I don’t really know much about, which decks are best etc. X 

[AJ-ish/Sharyn]

now look at that, you have 5 posts already and can go to the link posted above and tell us your take! 

I still have trouble with finding my way around forums and I've been using them for 20 years or so. 

This is the Rider Waite tarot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider-Waite_tarot_deck

People like it because it has pictorial minors as opposed to 6 static swords or wands or whatever, gives you something to work off of. Probably a majority popular decks are based on this, but are done in some theme or other, fairys or robots or books... you think it, it is probably out there. 

Decks are cheap generally, I think Walmart even carries them. At least they do online. 

I bought most of mine used off ebay or from forum members. 

 

[Blackcharliedog]

Thank you, I will take a look at that deck and hope it’ll help me on my way to fully figuring out this journey. X 

[LogicalHue]

6 hours ago, Blackcharliedog said:

That’s the side of things that I don’t really know much about, which decks are best etc. X 

Well its certainly not out of order to ask for recommendations! I feel like its important that its not really about which decks are "better", like you got one that just doesn't work or something. When people say start off with Rider Waite Smith its because there's a lot of symbolism to help you pull from. Like others have said, there's lots of decks that are basically RWS in part or completely so if the art style of RWS doesn't appeal there's plenty of options. Personally I've never owned one, but I do look up the images online in my studies. The Modern Tarot Reader is likely based off of the same meanings (or, looking at the minors, possibly Marseille), the art is just more abstract, so people probably wouldn't point to it for a first deck. But if you like it and its working for you and makes sense to you, its not a bad deck.

 

As to your original question, Majors are often considered to be more intense, more weighty. A lot of majors could be seen as something more important or urgent. When I'm doing a weekly reading that's just a 3-cards-for-the-week thing and I get all majors, in my case its been that this isn't about my week but something that's happening in the world at large. 

Edited January 10, 2021 by LogicalHue