Do you read with reversals? - Poll

[Morwenna]

I said most of the time, because even though I can't remember ever not using them, I'm sure it has happened. 

[Esclarmonde]

I use reversals because that's how I learned when I started with Tarot. Of course that increases the number of interpretations of the cards, but I find the reversals add to the message of the reading, and don't always interpret them as negative. I find Mary Greer's Tarot Reversals   a very useful interpretation guide. I use reversals with all my Tarot decks except the Dark Angels - for some reason it never felt "right" to use reversals with that particular deck. I also never use reversals with any oracle deck.

Edited October 2, 2024 by Esclarmonde

[geoxena]

I never read reversals and always make sure to shuffle in a way that keeps the cards upright.  I started out reading them, but stopped ever since a mentor of mine opened my eyes and told me I didn't have to!  Plus I read mostly intuitively and can spend a long time discussing what I see in just one card. Since each card can mean something totally different for a different querent, and depending on the question, reading reversals just doesn't make sense to me - but seeing how the elements of each card relate to the elements in other cards within the spread makes a lot of sense to me. 

 

I usually need cards that are detailed and fully illustrated, because I want to see what the figures in the illustrations are doing, what they're wearing, where they're going.  I need to see a story in order to relate it to the person I am reading for in that moment.  So, with the way I do it, it just seems that reading reversals would make it unnecessarily clunky for me.

Edited December 14, 2024 by geoxena