Mystical Angels

What is a reversal and a significator?

Please help. I went to http://www.facade.com/tarot/ to get a free tarot card reading and it asks e to check mark these as options. I became confused snce I do not know what these terms mean. Can I pick neither or both, much less one or the other? I think a reversal has to do with the card being rightside up or or upside down. In the deck I use I do not believe it matters what the orientation of the card is. I always make sure all the card are facing the same direction.

Public Comments

1. The significator is the card whose characteristics match up with you. When you select that, you be presented with a screen showing all of the cards in the deck. Read the descriptions and pick the one you think best represents you.
2. You are right... they don't matter and also, reversal is about whether it's upside-down or not. Significators are cards that are selected to indicate a starting position of the seeker. IT can be selected based on gender (ie: chose the Magicigan if you are a man and the High Preistess if you are a woman) zodiac sign (ie: chose the Chariot if you are Cancer, Justice if you are a Libra etc) or some other specific method. It can also be drawn at random. The significator is optional (as is reading "Reversed" cards.) I use neither. I don't chose a significator. To me, that is redundant... the seeker is right in front of me and the seeker represents the seeker, not the card... plus, it removes a card from the deck that may be useful in the reading other places. I don't read reversed... I think there is enough meaning in 78 cards that reversed meanings just complicate matters too much. I'm not sure about the site, but I wouldn't select either of them. -Scarlet