How To Get Started with Tarot
Many of the participants in my tarot Meetup group are brand-new to tarot and eager to learn everything they can. So I decided to compile a list of the best articles I have on how to get started with tarot.…
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Joy’s Quickie, DIY 5-Minute Guide to Reading Tarot
Fastest Way to Read Tarot Cards for Yourself This is my absolute fastest way of reading the cards for yourself without looking up tarot card “meanings” in the book. These are not shortcuts or cheats. Instead, these are some of…
Easily Interpret Tarot Cards with these Five Questions
How To Describe a Tarot Card This is the easiest and fastest way to connect with your cards and understand them instantly. There are five questions that will reveal the heart of any card. No, these aren’t questions to ask…
How to Phrase Tarot Questions for Clear Answers
How to Develop the Best Tarot Questions for Useful Readings Brows furrowed, fingers steepled, he stared at the deck of tarot cards in front of him. We were at a tarot meetup. Usually people are this focused when they look…
Benefits of Using a Significator Card in Tarot Spreads
How to Choose and Use a Tarot Card to Represent Yourself I was talking with a friend yesterday and she mentioned she saw no point in using a significator card in the Celtic Cross tarot spread. I agreed that it…
Don’t Memorize Tarot Card Meanings—Do This Instead
Sadly, most tarot classes start students with memorizing card meanings. An intimidating introduction to the art and beauty of tarot! And establishing the idea of a “right” meaning encourages people to rely on cheat sheets or the book. At worst,…
3 Reasons to Learn Tarot Now! + 2024 Tarot and Esoteric Classes
Happy New Year! Not only did I celebrate a great holiday with family and friends, but I am very much looking forward to starting off the New Year with the 30-year anniversary of my first tarot class! If you’ve already…
Fool’s Choice: Five Madcap Takes on the Unnumbered Trump
April Fools! Royal fools have wisdom in their trickery. These five (plus a bonus!) blog posts each explore the Fool from a different angle. This handful of essays includes a soup recipe, a love tarot spread, a wordless essay, and…
Do Your First Tarot Reading
Are You Ready to Do Your First Tarot Reading? it’s Easy with My Quick Start Tarot Guide! After teaching tarot for twenty-eight years, I asked myself, “What is the one thing I would say to a brand-new tarot reader?” If…
How to Learn Tarot
How a Newbie Can Learn Tarot Are you a newbie to tarot? You want to do readings, so you check out online articles, videos, podcasts, you even head out to some meetups. But everybody tells you to look at the…
The Best Way to Learn Tarot
It was nearing the end of the day at the Isis Books psychic fair this month when someone I knew from the store sat at my table. “I am overcome with the urge to buy a tarot deck and I…