r/tarot

I'm a begginer, it's been little over a month since I started tarot practice. Sometimes I'll begin a reading after putting the cards down and realize I'm unsure if, when I drew the card, I flipped it right side up to see what it was and didn't notice myself placing it on the table like that instead of reversed.

When that happens, I'll sometimes lightly throw the card in a way that makes it spin once or twice and see how it lands so I have some guidance to how it was supposed to be.

I keep wondering if I unconsciously flipped the card while placing because I was wishing for a good outcome, or if I'm doubting if I did that because I'm unconsciously looking for something to be bad/wrong because of insecurity and anxiety.

I'm not sure if I just have a really cooked attention span or what's going on, because sometimes I feel like I'm paying so much attention, only to somehow forget exactly what I did and how I did it. I feel a bit crazy because of that.

I don't know if this is maybe my intuition asking me to consider both meanings or if it's just anxiety and insecurity speaking.

Has this ever happened to you? How do you go about that?

Although I have had cards for many years, I am just starting to learn tarot now and get to know my cards and connecting my energy with them (I also do angel cards). I am so drawn to these tarot cards though because of the artwork which is beautiful and surreal.

So...I am in the process of selling a house I own (not my main home, a house I rented out) and I asked the universe during meditation before I pulled them about a possible relocation to a town where my ex husband lives (we have a teenager who is going to college where his dad lives about 2 hours away because it's his ideal course. My ex and I get on well ish...he's remarried happily with a little girl. My son is so chilled about me only being 2 hours away from him but I'd have to rent an Airbnb for a few days and see him perhaps twice a month? so I'm considering relocating because I'll miss him so much. However.....if I'm honest, I don't want to move, I want to stay where I am with my friends and familiarity. My ex though, is using all his psychological expertise to try to convince me....I can see through it but he's good!! haha)

Anyway.......So these are the 3 cards I pulled. To be honest, I was a bit alarmed at first. My interpretation is (in a nutshell):

KOP reversed: That perhaps I've been a bit reckless selling up, that I might hit a temporary financial loss, that I've been too fiery with my decisions.

The Swords: I feel like I'm lost? (I am a bit), I might not see a way out and I'm feeling trapped BUT the sky looks reasonably clear on the card, there IS a way out from "the man in the card" and I have options to get out / away from him?? meaning my ex? to ignore his attempts to persuade me?

The Queen of Wands is definitely me! I'm very independent, confidant and I can see through BS mostly, when people are trying to "win me over" or pull a fast one with me, I can read people pretty well. However, why did this Queen turn up? what is it saying to me together with the KOP in reverse and the Swords??

Thank you!

English is not my first language, so forgive me in advance. I started not long ago and noticed that most of the spreads deals with rather heavy topics, or to articulate better, something to make you reflect about yourself and/or your life in various aspects. The thing is: I want to make practicing tarot a part of my routine, but how can I do it in a lighter way? I've had a tiring week, I just want to do what I'm ought to and unwind. The last thing I want to do is to poke myself by reflecting about my life when I'm already feeling depressed on my own lol.

Anyway, do you guys have any suggestions on light spreads or how to practice even when you're not in a self reflection mood?

Ok so this is a bit of a doozy. I’m going to speak in generalities a bit because I value my clients privacy.

I was reading a very regular client recently let’s call them River. The reading was going pretty normally where we were exploring 2 paths and what that means for them.

One of the paths had a card combination tower upright and knight or swords reversed that I felt ment a permanent severance of their long term relationship. Specifically I had a vision of the exact event in my minds eye.

Well I told River immediately and bluntly. They were taken aback and kind of jumped out of their seat. I consoled them of course and did my best to settle their spirit. Everything else went normally and we exchanged laughs and they headed out.

It’s been 48 hours and River hasn’t responded to a few texts and 1 phone call. I’m concerned about them. This is unusual behavior based on a 2+ year relationship.

I need to know how other readers respond in the moment to this. Should I have filtered the information more? Would that be unfair? I feel it was my duty to tell them but I think they got scared.

Thank you for any thoughts or insights.
✨Be Blessed Everyone✨

I have always been into Tarot in my journey. I started reading at 16 years old, but almost a decade later, I am reconnecting to my spirituality. That has led me to the Gods and Goddesses of Hellenism. So, I want to ask here: What Cards represent the Gods and Goddesses to you? I have a list with what I think of, but I am not perfect, I want other worshippers' opinions. There are also deities I am curious about but am unsure where to start.

• Apollo
  • The Sun, The Hierophant
• Artemis
  • The Moon, The High Priestess
• Hades
  • The Devil, The Emperor, King of Pentacles
• Persephone
  • The Lovers, The Empress, Queen of Pentacles
• Aphrodite
  • The Lovers
• Hermes
  • The Magician

I could be wrong, but these are what I recognize at the moment. Feel free to disagree, agree, and bring up other deities and their cards! I also need help navigating the Minor Arcana especially.

Helloo so i actually wanted to ask in general but I think it is better if I'm straightforward.

I'm an artist, I started with commissions not long ago and I sometimes hesitate about what services to offer and don't know what to do many times so in this case could it help to guide me?

I'm sorry I'm bad at explaining but here is an example

I have a few YCH (your character here commissions where you can pay to put a character in a pre-made template with a few changes sometimes) in mind to do but I'm not even sure if they would work and call people's attention, so I wonder if I could ask tarot something like "Should I make these ych?" Or "what do people tend to like more?" Smth like that, I'm still not sure about the correct way to ask questions in tarot hehe

So that's all, I'm very new in tarot and don't understand at its full potential so I want to ask real experienced people even if it's a bit embarrassing, but as someone said before, it's better to ask a dumb question than be dumb and never ask

Hey hey! Every December I do my Year Ahead Calendar reading for myself. Just to get the general vibe of what to expect for the year ahead. A bit concerned now June approaches as the card I drew for June was the Reversed Ace of Pentacles. I'm an experienced tarot reader, and all my research proclaims that this card is the card of wasted potential and missed opportunity... How would you interpret this card? Just worried because I haven't a clue what I'm wasting or what I could be about to miss out on... A bit of a "sliding doors" moment, I guess! :)

Hi so I’m newish to tarot, I have a friend that practices and has a few decks. It never occurred to me that a deck could be a “bad” deck. The reason I bring that up is because I’ve been considering purchasing my own deck and that would be the Buffy the vampire slayer one, it looks gorgeous from an artist standpoint. But then I got a video on TikTok talking about decks you should avoid at Barnes n noble (the Buffy one was there but not mentioned) it never occurred to me one may not be well crafted (art/ info/ quality) or made by a bad company/ business. With that stated is the Buffy deck a good one to buy ? Also what would you consider a bad deck or a red flag?

Hello!

I have been reading Tarot for over a year where I sometimes read for others but mostly read for myself. I do a 1-3 card pull every morning and journal.

In the last 3 months I have started reading reversals as I felt really comfortable with the upright meanings and wanted to expand my practice.

The problem is, especially when I read for myself, the reversals give me anxiety. Its a knee jerk reaction. I know no card is inherently negative, but my irrational brain feels like I "failed" when they come up. I struggle with perfectionism so Im assuming it has something to do with that. I often pull clarification cards for the reversals which usually help seeing them differently.

I recently went to a Tarot workshop run by a woman who I have seen many times and taken other workshops from. I asked her to better explain reversals and she was basically like "why are you giving yourself anxiety? Go to therapy or stop reading them".

I am in therapy. I didnt find her answer helpful.

I am trying to view them differently, maybe as a message of release. I am going to go through the deck and do an exercise with intuition to try to dig deep and make my own meanings but I thought I would ask here to see what others think about reversals to help me de-couple that knee jerk assignment of the "negative".

I have a Greek mythology themed tattoo sleeve and the inside of my arm is blank. I want to continue Greek mythology but wanted to tie in tarot as well. Which cards can I use to represent the fates? There’s Clotho (the spinner) that spins the thread of fate, Lachesis (the allotter) that measures the thread and decides where it’s cut (end/death), and Atropos (inflexible) that does the actual cutting. So I could do wheel of fortune as a spindle, justice holding the thread, and death for the last, but I wanted to hear some other ideas. This is very much beginning process so I’m open to ideas. I’d like to incorporate cups as I pull a LOT of cup cards but I’m not leaning toward one particular representation over the other. I may consider trying to make the fates look like tarot themselves, just playing around a lot and thought this group might be into that.

I was using my tarot deck to ask about my previous relationship and I wasn’t getting any cards about it, but just getting a bunch of card about abundance and money instead?! I guess this is a win lol but what does this mean?! I did change my approach because usually I will shuffle, spread out the deck, and trace my hands across the deck and choose whichever one I feel but clearly that wasn’t working. so I shuffled, and parted the deck into 3 stacks and chose one from each stack and then I started getting answers! So maybe it was just my energy wasn’t in it the first time around?! Or I just needed to change the way I draw the cards?!