Dropped cards - read 'em or shuffle?

[Starwind]

Hello tarot lovers! Thanks for the add.

 

1. How do you feel about reading cards that fall, jump, fly or drop when shuffling? Do you strictly deal your cards?

2. If a card falls horizontally, how do you read it, upright or reversed?

3. Are there any good books or references you recommend for memorizing the meanings of cards (i.e., the Knights all mean youthfulness, the Aces new beginnings, etc.) 

4. What are your favorite basic spreads? Or do you generally pull a card a day?

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Love and light to you 

Starwind

[DanielJUK]

Welcome to the forum @Starwind if you would like to introduce yourself, you are welcome to start a thread in our introductions section here 🙂

Just to let you know I've moved your thread into the best area to discuss your questions, into our main tarot discussion area. It was in a creative area before and fits better here

[Starwind]

Thank you Daniel. I just did an intro post. 
 

-Starwind

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome!

 

Your questions really deserve separate topics or threads of their own.

 

Also, these may be topics that have already been started.  I would search for them myself but I'm on my phone all day. Maybe someone adept with the search function will be so kind and link them here 😌

 

 

Edited April 22, 2022 by fire cat pickles

[Guest]

I'm very new to tarot, but I'd imagine if a card drops while shuffling then it's important to look at it as I suspect its an important message. 

[DanielJUK]

Some people might have some views to add in answer to your question but inspired by @fire cat pickles, here are some old discussions on the forum about your questions if they inspire you.....

 

7 hours ago, Starwind said:

1. How do you feel about reading cards that fall, jump, fly or drop when shuffling? Do you strictly deal your cards?

 

some people think they are important, others ignore them. There is a thread discussing it here...

 

 

They are often called Jumpers in our community and there is a shuffling method actually using them.....

 

 

7 hours ago, Starwind said:

2. If a card falls horizontally, how do you read it, upright or reversed?

 

 

 

 

7 hours ago, Starwind said:

3. Are there any good books or references you recommend for memorizing the meanings of cards (i.e., the Knights all mean youthfulness, the Aces new beginnings, etc.) 

 

There is no easy advice on this, I would read books, use free tarot courses (the forum has a list here) or youtube videos, podcasts, however you consume tarot! Make notes about each card for yourself, form your own view of each card and then memorise some of the ideas you have formed. You may in time, change your views of each card, I know I have but find your own view of each card!

 

There is a nice old thread discussing how to learn each card....

 

 

It needs time and there is no quick route to learning the cards, I would also use them as much as possible in a practical way of learning

 

7 hours ago, Starwind said:

4. What are your favorite basic spreads? Or do you generally pull a card a day?

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you might want to ask this in our Tarot Spreads section but this is a good recent thread there.....

 

 

 

[Guest]

Well based on the books I've read so far, they say to shuffle the cards even more because it means your energy is all over the place. If I drop a card, I just pick it up without looking and put it back in the deck.

[Newpath]

I always read a card that falls out. I don’t use reversals unless a card fall out in the reversed position. If a card falls out horizontally then I read it as upright. 

[Giana222]

Welcome! I read all cards that fall out, it’s usually an overall theme or something that needs to be called out. 
 

I don’t read reversals so all cards are read upright. 
 

I don’t have a favorite spread, I read all cards in a line of 5 from left to right. The first card represents the situation and the cards that follow answer the questions. 

[euripides]

I pay attention to jumpers - generally I see it as a card that really wants attention. I will sometimes contemplate and remember it, and then put it back in the deck before drawing, and see how it relates to the formal reading; sometimes I'll treat it as a drawn card. I don't read reversals - rather I apply aspects of the reversed meaning in relation to a position (ie a warning/negative/caution/problem).

 

Most of the time I draw a daily card. Sometimes I'll do two or three cards - either past/present/future, pro/con, caution/opportuniy/action, physical/intellectual/spiritual, etc. depending on the issue.

[Esclarmonde]

If a card falls out, I pick it up, put it back in the deck and carry on shuffling. I don't read that card and I don't attach any special significance to that card falling out. Sometimes it's related to the cards themselves - I have some decks where the cards, due to the nature of the cardstock, shuffle very easily, while other decks have cards that tend to stick and these can fall out during shuffling.

[Mme29]

For me, if one card falls out then I take it as a message the deck is trying to tell me.  If a bunch of them fall out I pick them up and reshuffle.  Being new to tarot it's also easier to focus on one card at a time.  I'm still learning how to interpret the cards when combined with others.  Perhaps once I am more experienced I will change my mind.

[Shintoga]

I’ve both read and put jumping cards back without reading them, but it depends on how I feel when it happens. The effect the lack of consistency has is unknowable, though. 

[fire cat pickles]

If a card jumps out I will put it back and keep shuffling. If it turns up in the reading I will consider that it has some special significance in the reading only.

 

 

Edited May 5, 2022 by fire cat pickles

[jackdaw]

It depends on the circumstances - if I fumbled my shuffle, then I'll just put it back in the deck and keep shuffling, but if it feels like it really did jump out, I'll usually set it aside and see if it's relevant when I set the reading down.