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How to read tarot cards?

I'm learning how to read tarot cards. Tarot cards have different meanings if they're placed right side up or reversed. If you're giving a tarot reading to someone else, is the "reversed" card meaning it's reversed for the person you're reading it to, or is it reversed when you see it?

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1. Oh that's a real toughy, that is.
2. When the reader accepts the deck that has been shuffled by the questioner, the reader makes sure to maintain the correct orientation of the deck so as to properly read the "reversed" cards, as they would appear "reversed" to the questioner.
3. Reversed = opposite meaning.
4. They are reversed to your perspective. If a card is reversed it'll look upside down to you.
5. Your aim is to lay out the cards so they seem upright to you - the reader. It's more important for you to see them upright as you are doing the interpreting and need to seem them more clearly. Any that are reversed to you will seem upright to the questioner but that is not important. You are the reader - you have to do the reading. If you are reading a book to someone else you don't read it upside down just so they can see the words. The other alternative is to sit next to the questioner so you both see the cards the same way up.
6. Hello If your new to Tarot, reversed are best left alone. But in terms of which was is reversed for the reader, they are reversed or upright as the reader looks at them. Other than that im don't really understand your question? Sadhara * see profile
7. They are the way the reader sees them. So if it's right side up when they are looking it's the right way up and if they see it upside down then it's reversed. If you're just beginning then I would recommend that you just turn the cards right side up if they are reversed. Then when you get more confident then you can interpret the reversed cards.
8. That's always an issue, and part of why I don't like to let clients shuffle the cads when I do readings in person (much to the clients surprise, usually.) If they shuffled, I would say it would be rightside up to the client, assuming the deck didn't get flipped when they passed it to you.