Yes/No one card readings

[CheshireCat785]

I find myself asking my deck a yes/no question only to be baffled by the card I draw. How do you treat the cards for yes/no questions? What if the card drawn is reversed? Do you draw the next card for clarification?

[Misterei]

18 minutes ago, CheshireCat785 said:

I find myself asking my deck a yes/no question only to be baffled by the card I draw. How do you treat the cards for yes/no questions? What if the card drawn is reversed? Do you draw the next card for clarification?

Tarot isnt designed to serve binary information ... so I tweak the deck to make it serve binary answers.

For example cups and coins are yes / swords and rods are no.

There are many different methods.

I think there's a whole thread on this somewhere in the forums [???]

 

I personally use Lenormand for yes/no but even then I use a special yes/no method. No cartomancy is binary by nature so the cards will always need to be tweaked to serve binary information.

[DanielJUK]

There is an interesting older discussion on this....

 

There is a link in the thread to other divinatory methods for yes / no readings

Here are some spreads and other ideas to use them -

 

 

My view is that tarot is not the best for yes / no answers for the reasons @Misterei gave. The cards want to tell you so much and they are forced into binary answers. It's so limiting!

It's a personal choice but I have found they give me worst answers, then allowing them to give a fuller answer with a more open-ended question. It's a decision how to use it and it works for some people 🙂 

The biggest mistakes I see with them though is that people ask really big important questions with a yes /no answer with one card! You need more for such a question. Secondly it's easier to get addicted to tarot with them, like you begin reading so you won't make decisions yourself, it can be quite toxic.

[CheshireCat785]

Thank you so much for the links! I have definitely found that I have an easier time interpreting larger spreads, and it makes more sense thinking about it as limiting the cards. I'm going to look into those other divination methods for yes/no questions. ^_^