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Usually you use Lenormand cards but you can do similar method with Tarot. Thought I'd share if anyone wants to try or add something to it.

1. Ask:

“Where is my X object?”

2. Pull 3–5 cards and define meaning. For example:

Card 1: location

Card 2: What the object is close to

Card 3: Height/position

Card 4: What is hiding it

Card 5: Advice on where to look

3. Use the pics on the cards literally, for example:

• House - home, room, furniture

• Tower - tall place, shelf, isolated area

• Ship - travel bag, vehicle, something moved

• Garden - outside, public area

• Mountain - behind/under something, difficult to reach

• Crossroads - hallway, entrance, somewhere with many directions

• Book - drawer, box, book, something concealed

• Fish - water, bathroom, kitchen, or something associated with water (could be alcohol aswell)

4. Use combinations.

For example, House + Tower + Book could mean inside the house, in a high place, being concealed.

You can also use north/south/east/west correspondences, but you need to decide on your own what system to use. I'd suggest:

• Wands = east
• Cups = south
• Swords = west
• Pentacles = north

Did you know that Pamela Colman Smith likely saw an actual eclipse (as we are today seeing in Europe) and painted it into the tarot - twice?

When researching "Secrets of the Waite-Smith Tarot", we checked the astronomical records for the time that Pamela Colman Smith was drawing the cards.

We discovered that there was an actual eclipse at that time, so we went looking for old newspaper reports from the same date in 1909.

Imagine our surprise and joy to discover that not only was it noted but also that in the proceedings of an amateur astronomical society of the time was an important further record.

The report recorded that due to typical English late summer cloudy weather, there was only one place where the eclipse could be best viewed.

It was Tenterden - the small enclave where Pamela was staying (and/or Winchelsea just down the road) whilst drawing the cards!

The chances of that exact small town being mentioned is - if you'll pardon the pun - astronomically small.

So Pamela likely drew the eclipse symbol into these two cards, the Eight of Cups and the Two of Swords.

Now notice that they are both set on the same shoreline landscape with a shoreline in the distance and water between outcropped rocks.

This is because there is an estuary where Pamela was at the time, so she repeated the symbolic tidal landscape in addition to the eclipses.

That is because both cards - in their Book T description from the Golden Dawn that Pamela was likely using - are linked in their positions.

The Two of Swords is about restoring peace perhaps sooner than might be best, for the sake of it.

The Eight of Cups is about abandoning success perhaps sooner than might be best, feeling forced to move on.

This symmetry is because of their position ( 2 and 8 ) at similar ends of the numbers 1 - 10 and their opposite Suits, Swords and Cups.

Pamela has beautifully captured the Kabbalah, mental and emotional symbolism in these two cards.

The eclipse, when one passion or thought is eclipsed by another, may feel unnatural when it happens in our own life, but it is perfectly natural.

And the same with the tides - they too have their pull and their season.

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You bump into Janice .Janice is a very excited teenager.

"Why so happy?"

"I'm going to be Tarot famous on Tik-tok !"

"Really, how long have you been reading ?"

"Just got a deck last week , crystals a couple days later, it's okay -I've seen them do it on Tik-tok , I can do that!"

"Have you actually tried reading somebody?"

"Yes, my best friends nanna , she asked me if she should take up a part time position in the charity store, after her hip operation."

You knew better than to ask about the details as readings are confidential, but Janice was dying to tell you!

"I pulled three cards and told her to be very careful out walking and stay away from any cliff edges, and not to take up that position in the store because she is going to be pregnant . She'll have a baby boy and buy him a pony when he is just old enough to ride it !"

"What did your friends nanna say to that ?"

"She laughed, maybe its because she lives in a small apartment and there might not be that much room for the pony !

Anyways -must dash -got my cameras to set up!"

Which three cards did Janice read ?

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Credit to Bob Smithies, the amazing tarot reader and story teller that inspired many of my reddit tarot games

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Here are some tips about how is best to formulate a question for a Tarot reading.

🚫EFFECTIVE TAROT QUESTIONS ARE NOT:

-Passive (should I...) 
-Yes/No 
-When/Where  
-Health/legal/financial advice or winning lottery number 
-seeking to manipulate people (how can I make  to do this...) 

"Will John marry me, and how many kids will we have?" it is, well, a decision to make together with John, and not for a Tarot reader to say!  

Can you get answers for yes/no questions? SURE! Just get or make a pendulum, no need to pay a tarot reader!

▶️EFFECTIVE TAROT QUESTIONS◀️ 

-put the focus on the SEEKER (to better understand a situation for example) 
-have an open-ended format "How can I better ..."
-have a single, specific topic  - the more precise, the better
-take a proactiv point of view (how can I improve my relationship with John) 
-should be asked while being detach from the outcome 

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EXAMPLES of effective Tarot questions - you can make them more precise, based on your situation

* Can also take a look at these spreads https://www.reddit.com/u/PleasantCut615/s/oCArbMd3bI

IF YOU ARE NOT SURE WHAT TO ASK, you can just ask for a general reading, like 'what do I need to know right now'. In situations like this, me, as a reader, I pull first a card to depict in which area of querent's life the message will be about.  
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Very often, what do we want may not be also the best for us. That's why my favorite question is not 'how to make this happen' but rather 'WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS'. 

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For examples of relationship questions please visit this post     https://www.reddit.com/r/ExploringTarot/s/MGbR2l2l8d 

Questions about career

How can I advance in my professional career?
What can I do to find a job I’m passionate about?
What skills do I need to develop to succeed in my work?
How can I improve my relationship with my coworkers?
What should I consider when thinking about a career change?
How can I better manage work-related stress?
What is preventing me from achieving my professional goals?
How can I find a better balance between my work and personal life?
What opportunities for professional growth are available to me?
What should I know about my current work environment?

Questions about finances/business

How can I improve my financial situation? 
What should I know before making a major investment? 
What steps should I take to achieve financial stability? 
How can I better manage my personal finances? 
What should I consider when starting a business? 
How can I increase my income? 
What financial habits should I change? 
What financial opportunities are available to me? 
How can I free myself from debt? 
What is preventing me from achieving my financial goals? 

 Questions About Health and Well-being 

What can I do to improve my physical health? 
How can I better manage stress and anxiety? 
What habits should I adopt for a healthier life? 
How can I better balance my body and mind? 
What should I know about my emotional well-being? 
How can I strengthen my immune system? 
What is preventing me from achieving optimal well-being? 
How can I improve my mental health? 
What steps should I take to heal a specific ailment? 
What should I keep in mind to maintain a healthy lifestyle? 

 Questions About Important Decisions 

What should I consider when making this decision? 
What is the best path to follow in this situation? 
What consequences can I expect from this choice? 
How can I make a decision aligned with my values? 
What is preventing me from making a clear decision? 
What should I know before deciding? 
How can I find the courage to make this decision? 
What information am I missing to make this decision? 
How can I overcome the fear of making important decisions? 
What benefits will I gain from making this decision?

Questions About Spirituality 

How can I deepen my spiritual practice? 
What should I know about my spiritual path? 
How can I better connect with my inner self? 
What spiritual lessons should I learn now? 
How can I balance my spiritual energy? 
What spiritual obstacles should I overcome? 
How can I find peace and spiritual balance? 
What spiritual practices should I incorporate into my life? 
How can I better align with my spiritual purpose? 
What should I know about my spiritual guides? 

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Hello fellow readers, today I want to talk about a widespread technique among beginners, and I also want to tell you how much it is unfit for the nature of tarot and thus basically misleading, and also what to do to go beyond it and become a more refined reader. I’m here talking about yes-or-no type of readings.

Y/N looks to be very appealing: you pull one single card, which you already decided means yes or no, and that’s your answer. Easy, no...? No, indeed. Not at all. It creates confusion and, when feedback from the real events is available, it often proves to give wrong answers. Let me do some examples based on what I read around every day.

Question: - Is my girlfriend leaving me? Answer: the Tower.
Interpretation: Tower is a no, so, well, nooo, we’re staying together.
What happens later: they break up from one day to the other, and then blame tarot for lying.

Or another example, question: - Will my boss go against me regarding my promotion? Answer: the Queen of Swords.
Interpretation: The QoS, of course, is a big no, so my boss won’t obstruct me in any way.
What happens later: the boss, who also happens to be a woman like the harsh Queen herself, not only doesn’t promote them, but sends them to work in a basement. And then they start to doubt tarot.

Now, those two examples are not real, I willfully exaggerated them to magnify the problem.

Did you notice that what happened later was not a yes or no, but what the cards factually showed?

The couple broke up, even abruptly, and, in fact, the Tower is the best card to show a sudden breakup.

The worker got not only obstructed, but even mobbed by the female boss, and, IN FACT, the only card they picked was the most bad-tempered, hostile and evil female figure in the deck.

Tarot, actually, answered very well and impeccably, because it just showed what happened later. Sadly, the reader didn’t get the message, because they were too busy cramming what they saw into the labels of yes or no.

From this, we can start to see one important thing:

Tarot speaks in concrete terms

It uses, so to say, the language of things, and not mere adverbs. Tarot’s language is substantive. Tarot shows the what, the how, the whom and the why, basically, and does this because, being made of images/concepts, these resemble, by analogy, what is or happens out there – the core of the mechanism of divination, if you allow me.

You cannot tie tarot’s images/concepts to a yes or no, because the analogy between what tarot shows and what exists out there somewhere will always be stronger than any forced and arbitrary correspondence between the cards and the two adverbs yes and no.

There are some exceptions to this: some cards, like Death or the 5 of Swords, can sometimes act as a negation, or just like the boolean operator NOT. But this can happen when you have a line of cards, not when you only pull one. And here we arrive at a second big argument against Y/N readings, usually done with a single card:

Reading a single card in itself can be highly deceitful

These are the best explanations I’ve come up with until today against the use of single cards:

Single cards are often not informative and leave you in ambiguity. You pull one card, you cannot pin its meaning down precisely (Devil, anybody here?) so you pull a clarifier, then a clarifier of the clarifier, until some 10th level of a card unto another. Unpractical and illogical, to say the least. You should expand your technical abilities and overcome the bottleneck if you find yourself in this situation.

If you do tableaus, you should have noticed that concepts repeat, echo and multiply themselves across many cards, like waves of meaning that confirm and enrich each other. Even only three cards have nuances that get confirmed through all the cards, and also make your interpretation take one path or another. Single-card readings, of course, like my first two examples, can be factually right, but besides missing a lot of the story, they can nonetheless be deceiving in themselves. What if the Queen of Swords was not the boss herself, but another woman in the org chart? What if the couple didn’t break up because of quarrelling, but because of… a natural calamity I don’t want to name that makes buildings collapse?

To recap: Y/N readings can lead you astray very fast, both because translating tarot into yes or no is a conceptual stretch, and because reading a single card is deceitful in itself. Now, let’s see:

How to go beyond the practice of yes or no and frame questions better

We said that tarot shows the what, how, whom and why of a situation. Therefore the best thing to do is to let the whole picture show itself fully and without constrictions.

Do we want to know about a situation or an issue? Let the whole situation emerge through the cards.

Don’t ask “Will we break up, yes or no?” but rather: “What will happen between us?”

You will see that the cards will give you something much richer than Y/N: they will tell you the whole dynamic, the emotions that will arise, how each person relates to the other, the basic attitudes, even timing if you are able to read it.

Don’t ask “Will my boss promote me?” but rather ask “What will happen with my desired promotion?” You could, for example, see that there are different persons interfering with the decision, and also many things that will unfold, for the worst or for the better.

Of course, at times you will be baffled by unclear answers, and will start to yell, “Yes, my deck, but what happens at the end? Can I know it?” and then you’ll be tempted to go back to Y/N. Remember, you can always pull a clarifier or ask new questions in this case, or even re-frame the question anew, concentrating strongly on your need to have a clear message.

By the way, does it happen from time to time that tarot leaves you defeated? Welcome to the club, my friend. You’re learning something non-ordinary and of course it must be an extraordinary fight - with your full being, your own wits included. Nothing is ever granted, in learning to read tarot. It is a climb. To be wrong is normal, the important thing is not leaving all your errors sitting there and repeating themselves forever, but to secure one step after another. That’s progress: not falling down again into your beginner’s mistakes.

Remember, answers can go very well beyond the dual categorization of Y/N. Sometimes things can be slow but progressing, at other times they can be just imaginary, at other times they look like a yes but are a no by nature… who knows? Reality is so much more complex than light switches, which only have 0/1…

So, be more intelligent than a light switch. Move beyond the binary Y/N forever and go to the next step in reading tarot.

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Hello,

I like this pattern but it looks like it was available a while ago from a magazine. Anybody has any idea if I can find it somewhere? It's called Jazzy Diamonds.

Thanks!

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Here's another fun game for the community! We're starting a dictionary with words that relate to the STRENGTH, comment with a word using the next unused letter of the alphabet.

To find the previous similar games, use the flair Games

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Here's another fun game for the community! We're starting a dictionary with words that relate to the EMPRESS

Comment with a word related to the Empress, always using the next letter of the alphabet.

(we did the Fool , the Magician the High priestess  the Empress the Emperor the Hirophant previously)

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1️⃣ Start by asking your question in the comments.

2️⃣Check others' comments; if you see a question you want to read for/nobody read for yet, reply to it with your reading; can include an image of your cards.

3️⃣ Somebody read for you? Awesome! Please give them a good feedback, not only a 'Thank you'; we learn from the feedbacks to be better readers. Let the reader know how the reading applies to you or suggest a different interpretations of the cards.

If you exchanged readings with another reader before, and liked their reading, invite them to exchange again! Tag another reader if you wish to invite them to participate!

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• ALL levels welcome One-two cards is a reading! do not stress about having less experience.
• No yes/no questions, they don’t fit tarot well. Don't worry, we help rephrasing
• Avoid questions about other people, please focus on matters that you can take care of.
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