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Before you start to learn how to read Tarot cards, you need to be familiar with your card deck. Take the time to go through the cards so that you instantly recognize them when you deal them.
You'll also need an explanation of the meaning of the Tarot cards like this one. I've given a short explanation of each of the cards below.
You should conduct your reading in a quiet place where you are unlikely to be disturbed. Turn off your cell phone and remind your client to do the same. You may decide to use scented candles or other items to create a relaxing atmosphere.
Before you deal your Tarot cards, separate them into the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana.
Ask the person who you are "reading" to shuffle each Arcana and then cut each set. Ask them to focus and think about the question they want answered whilst they do this. Tarot cards can be awkward to shuffle but the method of shuffling isn't important.
You then need to decide which Tarot spread to use. A couple of the easiest ones are:
Three card spread
This uses just three cards, laid out left to right. The cards represent past, present and future.
Five card Horseshoe spread
Five cards, laid out in an arc or horseshoe shape. Left to right, these cards represent the receiver's present position, their present desires, the unexpected, their immediate future and their outcome.
You're then ready to perform the actual Tarot reading and interpret the Tarot cards. You'll need a book on Tarot interpretations to help you do this.
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Learning the Tarot is a complete course on how to use the tarot cards for personal guidance. The 19 lessons in the course cover the basics and then move gradually into more advanced concepts. Exercises and sample responses for each lesson help you learn and practice. For simplicity, only one easy layout is used throughout the course - the Celtic Cross Spread.
The tarot (also known as tarocchi, tarock or similar names) is typically a set of seventy-eight cards, comprising twenty-one trump cards, one Fool, and four suits of fourteen cards each?ten pip and four face cards (one more face card per suit than in ordinary playing cards).
Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games such as Italian Tarocchini and French Tarot.
In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards are utilized primarily for divinatory purposes Huson, Paul, (2004) Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage, Vermont: Destiny Books, ISBN 0-89281-190-0
Mystical Origins of the Tarot
, with the trump cards plus the Fool card comprising the twenty-two major arcana cards and the pip and four face cards the fifty-six minor arcana.
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To interpret tarot cards, you have to find out what they each mean to YOU. Posted July 30, 2008 |