A Tarot reader needs both knowledge and intuition. First, you must know
the possible meanings of cards and the possible meanings of spread
positions. Then, your intuition tells you which of many possible
readings is relevant to the current situation.
Lots of great Tarot sources give you the meanings of the cards.
Lots of great sources give you possible spreads to use, explaining the meanings of the positions in each spread.
But in addition, when you actually read cards, you need practice interpreting the possible meanings of a card in the position in the spread in which it has come up.
These are the skills that we will practice in this blog. The intuitive part is up to you! However, you will probably find that your intuition is not really activated until you know the meanings of cards and spreads well enough to read without referring to a book or notes.
Here is a link to an excellent free online course for beginning Tarot readers, Joan Bunning's Learn Tarot.
We will start by working through this course, sharing and discussing our responses to the lessons on this blog.
To participate in this blog, you will need a Tarot deck to work with. Read Bunning's "Choosing a First Tarot Deck."
For my fellow auditory learners, I will make sound files of the reading material. The sound files are stored on GoogleDox. You will need to take a few moments to download the sound files to your own computer.
Take time to look at different decks in Bunning's Deck Descriptions.
Post Comments below to share your experiences with choosing a Tarot deck.
If you have experience reading Tarot, what deck(s) do you use, and why?
If you are just starting, what deck(s) look interesting to you, and why?
For the purposes of learning Tarot for the first time and participating in this blog, you should choose a deck that is based on the Rider/Waite model with which to follow the course.
If you are strongly drawn to another kind of deck, you may want to explore that later.
