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Learn how to use and read Tarot Cards and different Tarot Spreads

How to use Tarot, Information about Tarot cards, decks and spreads. Learn how to read tarot for yourself. You dont need a deck to start off with, this page gives you a bit of background information, and you can learn how to do the rest from this website, Ultimate Tarot Trainer

Learn the general meanings of each card, both upright and reversed.
Focus on smaller subsets of cards, such as the Major Arcana, Minor Arcana, individual suits, or reversed cards. But learning the keywords and meanings of each tarot card is only half of the puzzle.

You then need to put the cards together to give a reading...

Contents

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  1. Tarot
  2. Tarot Spreads
  3. Which Spread is Your Favourite?
  4. Ultimate Tarot Trainer
  5. Practice, Practice, Practice.
  6. Have Your Say

Tarot

What is it?

A tarot deck contains 78 cards each with a different symbolic feature. 22 of these cards are called the Major Arcana (or trumps) and 14 are made up of 4 suits (similar to playing cards), called the Minor Arcana (or pip cards).
Many believe the Tarot's origins date back to the mid 15th century in Northern Italy, but there are many theories about it originating from Ancient Egypt, Gypsies and even Atlantis.

Tarot is used for divination, problem solving, self improvement, fortune telling, creative visulisation and also used for understanding. Some people collect tarot cards for the beautiful artwork on each card, whilst others get really into the history and research of the cards. Still more people use Tarot cards to play different card games.

Artists interperate the symbols in different ways, hence the numerous different tarot decks available. It all comes down to personal taste. Although the different artists have different interpretations of the symbolic meanings of the cards, all decks mean pretty much the same.

Tarot Spreads

The Most Common and the Less Frequent

There are quite a few different Tarot spreads you can utilise, each give different meanings to the cards in a way that helps you to find the answer that corresponds to the spread.

The most common spreads are:

- Three Card Tarot Spreads
- Five Card Tarot Spreads
- Nine Card Tarot Spreads
- Celtic Cross Tarot Spreads
- Large Tarot Spreads
- Shape-Based Tarot Spreads

Other spreads include:

- Chakra Tarot Spreads
- Dream Tarot Spreads
- Fact-Finding Tarot Spreads
- Health and Body Tarot Spreads
- Spreads for Pets
- Spreads for Writers and Artists
- Zodiac Tarot Spreads
- Decision-Making Tarot Spreads
- Relationship Tarot Spreads
- Career and Job Tarot Spreads

Which Spread is Your Favourite?

Whats your favourite Tarot Spread? Or the one you use most Often?

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Practice, Practice, Practice.

The old saying still holds.. Practice Makes Perfect

It may take a while for you to fully understand, learn and develop your tarot reading skills. Its not so much the laying out of the cards, its the interpretation of the cards that is the difficult part.

It will take a lot of patience and perserverance, but once you know how, you can apply your readings to just about anything you like.

Have Your Say

Let me know what you think.

Are you a fan of Tarot? Was this lens helpful in some way? What about un-helpful? Please give me some feedback.

  • prosperity66 Jun 21, 2009 @ 10:32 am | delete
    Nice lens here :)
    5 stars to it :)
  • tdove May 21, 2009 @ 11:39 am | delete
    Thanks for joining G Rated Lense Factory!
  • Cumberland May 20, 2009 @ 5:53 pm | delete
    I am curious about Tarot, but clueless. You lens has helped a bit. 5 Stars for giving me some basic and simple explanations. Thanks.
  • WhiteOak50 May 19, 2009 @ 11:20 am | delete
    Thank you for joining Everything Spiritual. I read Native American Tarot cards.
  • Lorie May 14, 2009 @ 8:26 am | delete
    I love the Tarot! It's interesting and lots of fun to dabble in!
    I shall have to get a reading sometime :-)
    Nice lens- 5 STARS!
    Thanks for visiting my site, and have fun with this one!
    Lorie
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