Mystical Angels

What is a good book/website to learn Tarot spreads and card interpretations?

So, basically, I guess I'm asking, where should I go to learn how to use Tarot cards? So, basically, I guess I'm asking, where should I go to learn how to use Tarot cards? And, thank you "Nivian B"... but, I DID get them as a gift, I just don't know how to use them, the person who gave them to me REFUSES to teach me and took away the instruction before giving them to me (such a mean person!! XD) haha, thank you Nivian :) that would be really helpful... I don't understand the "right-side up" and "revesred" thing... Like, do some of the cards come with the picture facing up and some with the bottom facing up? Or is it that the picture (facing up) would look upside-down to me, but be right-side up for the reader, so i read it as if I were looking at it from their view-point? Thanks for the websites though... BTW, Aaron... "digestive tract"? haha, nice. So, is Tarot just kind of like, your own feeling then (that's what I'm getting...)? It's not... There's not a specific way to... learn... or... deal (I guess) the cards? You just believe in the cards and they'll work for you huh? That's pretty cool. I don't like being told exactly what to do. It's more fun to create your own ways :]

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1. You need to find a practicer. In order to have tarot cards work for you they should be a gift, not bought for yourself. When you lay them out you sit facing east your back to the west, the person you are reading for sitting opposite of you. There are several lay outs to the cards and each pack will come with their explanation of the meanings. The cards will mean different things depending on what position in the layout that they are located in. The most common layout I use involves immediate past, immediate future and present, with far past far future and troubled present. **Edit...hmmm let me look around then, there are some phony websites out there. But I will see if I can find a good one for you. You need to learn the major and minor arcana first. Just like in a regular deck of cards you have your clubs, hearts, spades, and diamonds...just known by different names generally, staffs, wands or rods, vessels or cups, blades or swords and pendants, pentacles or sheilds.(NOTE: A pentacle is a wiccan sign, it is a star inside a circle. A pentagram is an inverted star in a circle. One means good one means bad) This are the minor, each have a king, queen, page, knight then down from 10 to 1. The major arcana consist of The Fool, The magician, the high priestess, the wheel of fortune, death, the lovers, the empress, the emperor, the chariot, the hermet, the tower, strength, the hierophant, justice, the hanged man, temperance, the devil, the star, the sun, the moon, judgement and the world. They all have one meaning when they are right side up, meaning they are rightside up to the reader. They have a completely different, generally opposite, meaning when they are reversed(usually but not always oppsite). Then their meanings begin to make sense depending on where they are at in the the layout. I did manage to find you some decent websites. You should really be taught in person so you can learn to feel the energy, but I would be happy to assit you via email. When reading someone's cards, they shuffle the dec three times, cut the deck into three and replace it in any manner they wish. Then you take the dec back and start whatever spread you want. I use the celtic cross spread. It's one the website I provided, I follow the layout but was taught completely different procedure(the one I explained above) and significance. If you want to do a basice, yes or no, type question. Then you can use just one card. You hold the dec and ask the question, then you are going to flip the card side to side. Right side up= yes, reversed =no. Edit: lol "right-side up" refers to the picture on the card. If it is normal, then it is right side up, but if it is upside down,( the person or creature is standing on it's head basically) then it is reversed. If you are the one that has the cards you are the reader, so if it is upside down to you, it is reversed. ^.^; Like I said, sometimes it's much easier to learn person to person. Then after you get the idea of it down, the meanings will click in your mind. The meanings are flexible to problem.
2. Hello Drewcilla You can join our forum, a good place to practice & ask questions about your study, I also have a tarot course. The forum is free with plenty of tarot folk! Sadhara See Profile :)
3. Don't even bother learning a traditional spread, if you don't want to. In fact, make up your own spread. Before you draw a card, make up a meaning. Simply say "This card represents _____." and insert a word. You could say "This card represents the digestive tract" and it would work, trust me. Now, on to the cards. First and foremost, it's a good idea to establish an elemental relationship with your cards. Instead of studying the complicated symbolism behind every single card, familiarize yourself with the four elements, the numbers one through ten, and the four court cards. This won't "get your foot in the door", but is a rather polite knock on said door. It is very easy to give accurate readings with only this knowledge. Just remember to remove the major arcana from the deck. Those are the cards that don't resemble regular playing cards. Just for you, I will outline what I have instructed you to divulge in. Here goes... ____ Earth = senses, reality, wheels, pentacles Air = thoughts, actions, tornadoes, swords Fire = Intuition , transforming, explosions, wands Water = Emotion, spirituality, squirt guns, cups 1 = beginning 2 = partnership 3 = goal 4 = foundation 5 = motivation 6 = adaption 7 = lesson 8 = regeneration 9 = consciousness 10 = completion Page = messages Knight = action Queen = spiritual King = physical ___ So, lets say the card is the 7 of swords. From what I listed, this card represents a "lesson" related to "thoughts" or "actions". Get it? Once you get it down, you'll want to learn about "the Fools Journey". Which I wont bother with here. This is when you start "looking up" the meanings of the cards. From this point on, repetition will be your best friend. Memorizing the meanings takes a lot of time, perhaps a lifetime. For I have yet to fully realize the tarot. I believe it may be impossible to fully understand that which is infinite. You'll get it, as long as you keep it fun. Here are a few websites. http://www.learntarot.com/cards.htm http://www.ata-tarot.com/resource/cards/ http://www.ifate.com/