Guides
Tarot guides
Five short pages for the questions people have before they look a card up: how a reading works, what a reversed card means, how to shuffle and draw, how to ask, and how to read the sixteen court cards. Written like the card pages, with the deck on the table.
- 01Start here · 8 min readHow to read tarot cards: a beginner's guideHow to read tarot cards, from the first shuffle to the finished reading: a question, a spread, each card in its position, and the sentence they make.
- 02Upside down · 6 min readReversed tarot cards: what they mean and how to read themWhat a reversed tarot card means: the same energy blocked, inward, delayed or overdone, not the opposite. How to read reversals, and whether to use them.
- 03Hands on · 5 min readHow to shuffle and draw tarot cardsHow to shuffle a tarot deck, cut it and draw for a reading: the methods, how long to shuffle, how reversed cards get in, and the card that jumps out.
- 04The question · 5 min readHow to ask a tarot question that gets a useful answerHow to phrase a tarot question: open questions, questions about yourself, what to ask instead of “will he come back”, and yes-or-no questions.
- 05Sixteen people · 7 min readTarot court cards explained: Page, Knight, Queen and KingThe sixteen tarot court cards and how to read them: Pages, Knights, Queens and Kings in each suit, as people, as parts of yourself, and as ways to act.