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.…
Category Tarot Tips for Beginners
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…
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,…
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 Shuffle Tarot Cards
Before performing a tarot reading, it’s important to randomize the cards. The standard practice for randomizing a deck is shuffling the cards. But with tarot cards, shuffling can be awkward when the deck’s too big. Fortunately, there are a variety…
Be the Best Reader for You: Tips for Reading Tarot for Yourself
Be The only reader You’ll ever need Follow these tips for reading tarot for yourself, work through your own reading using the free downloadable workbook, and discover that you’re the best reader for you! I first presented this for the…
Interesting Beginner Tarot Decks: 22 Favorites
My favorite Choices for Interesting Beginner Tarot Decks One of the best things about tarot is having seventy-eight pieces of art to hold in my hand, contemplate, and adore. Tarot is all about the image. Images lead to stories, and…
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…
Cha-ching! Money in the Cards
What Cards in the Tarot Represent Money? Rolling in the dough! Today’s post explores themes of wealth, abundance, and money in the cards. To that end, let’s consider cards that tarot readers love to see turn up when asking about…
Three Types of Tarot Cards
Learn the Three Types of Tarot Cards and Never Buy a Useless Deck Again We all love to collect decks for their beautiful artwork. But many of us also need workhorse decks. How many decks have you purchased that sit…
Q&A with Joy: Does A New Tarot Reading Override an Old One?
Does a New Tarot Reading Take Precedence Over the Previous Reading? Every reader knows that if you ask the same question over and over the cards will start babbling in gibberish. However, if anything about the circumstances has changed, it’s…
Opening a New Tarot Deck
Opening a New Tarot Deck Is a Special Occasion This month the Denver Tarot Meetup hosted their first “New Year Party and Meet the Artists” event. We featured a panel of five deck creators and authors, moderated by Jason Gruhl,…
TBH: Tarot Cozy, or How to Store Your Tarot Deck
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! Our theme for this hop was provided by Joanne of Cosmic Whispers Tarot, who gave us the lovely, warm, fuzzy fun of writing about keeping in the heat with tarot. I was taking a…
Ten Reasons You Can’t Read Tarot for Yourself (And What to Do About It)
If You Think You Can’t Read Tarot for Yourself, Think Again! Do you think you can’t read tarot for yourself? You can! Clients often ask me if I read my own cards, and are usually surprised when I say yes.…
Good Cards for Something Bad
Good Cards for Something Bad About five years ago I did a reading for a woman who asked about starting a business. She told me she had just found the perfect storefront to lease. It was in the fall, maybe…
Fifteen Tarot Questions to Ask When You Don’t Have a Question
Fifteen Tarot Questions to Ask When You Don’t Have a Question Most tarot readers eventually find themselves in a situation where they want to do a reading but don’t know what to ask. Cruise control is on. Straight road ahead.…
inTAROTduction: Tarot Lineages and Reading Styles
The Tarot Lineages Tarot decks fall into one of three tarot lineages: pip decks, esoteric decks, and scenic decks. These lineages are based on the style of illustration and the type of information included in the numbered suit cards of…
The Two Most Important Words in a Tarot Reading
A young couple came in for a reading on a big upcoming change. The first three cards that turned up were Death, the Ten of Swords, and the Nine of Swords. Although I didn’t see it immediately, these difficult cards…