Tarot is amazing. Reading tarot cards lets you answer any question you can think of. Questions like "What does that person really think of me?", "Does he really love me?" or "Am I in the right job?". In fact any question that you can put into words, you'll be able to answer in minutes, with the tarot.

Reading tarot cards can change peoples lives for the better. Folks from all walks of life are using tarot. For some, it's a very private thing, and they don't talk about it with others. In fact, the chances are you already know someone who uses tarot regularly, even if they haven't told you about it.

There are three very distinct steps in performing an accurate tarot reading:

1.Forming the question and shuffling the cards

2.Laying out the cards in what we call a "spread"

3.Interpreting the 'story' that the cards in the spread are telling you

As I've already said, tarot can be used to answer almost any question you can think of, but how you ask that question has a big impact on the quality of your reading.

For example, tarot is much better at answering questions that start with "how", "why", or "what" than questions that can be answered with a simple "yes" or "no".

Of course, there are ways of using tarot cards to get yes / no answers, but when it can tell you so much more, why not take advantage of that?

So the first step in getting a good reading, is to form the question properly. Posing the question is one aspect of the first step of a tarot reading. But there is a very important second aspect - shuffling the cards.

Now shuffling a deck of cards might sound like a simple enough exercise, but with tarot it is hugely important, because it's the shuffling that determines which cards will be drawn in the reading.
If you get a free online tarot card reading, the chances are a a computer shuffles the cards for you. In that case, the shuffle will be subject only to the power of the universe, of 'infinite intelligence', 'God', or whatever term you prefer to use for the force that unites every molecule on the planet.

If you get a telephone tarot reading, there is a second force acting on the cards as they are shuffled: that of the tarot reader. Whether they intend it or not, their own aura, or 'spirit' will affect the shuffle, and in turn, the accuracy of the reading.

Now if you shuffle the cards yourself, something very important happens. Your own spirit, your subconscious mind, act upon those cards. As you hold the question in your mind, and as you shuffle the deck, your hands, your fingers, transmit that question to the cards directly influencing which cards with be drawn.

So to summarize the first step, you can massively affect your tarot reading by wording your question carefully, and by physically interacting with the cards by shuffling them yourself.

Let's move on and look at the second step in a tarot reading:

A tarot spread defines how the cards are laid out during a tarot card reading; There are lots of different spreads to choose from.

How do you choose? It comes back to the question you're asking, and the kind of answer you want. There are some spreads that are well adapted to all kinds of questions. A question asking when you'll get a promotion might use one spread, whereas a question about how to get that promotion may be much better answered by a different spread.

Every card in the tarot deck has its own meaning. In fact, it has more than one! In addition to the cards meaning, its position in the spread - that is to say, the order in which it was pulled out of the deck - also has significance.

Added to that, the meaning of a card can change, depending on whether it came out the right way round, or upside down.

When you consider that there are no fewer than 78 cards in a tarot deck, and a typical spread can use up to 10 positions (sometimes even more), you can see that's a lot of card meanings to remember! But in reality...

You don't need to memorize all the cards to do a good tarot reading.

In fact, memorizing the card meanings can actually limit the accuracy of your reading. You see, tarot cards are very visual. They carry intricate images, and those images talk to us in very unique and individual ways.

So when you form the question properly, when you transfer that question into the cards by the action of physically touching them as you shuffle them, when you choose the best spread for the kind of answer you want, and when you then interpret the spread in your own unique way, then your reading will become brilliantly accurate, meaningful, and insightful.

In other words...

Tarot can change your life, but for it to work best, you must do your own readings. To learn more about reading tarot cards, visit Tarot by Video.