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. I introduce suggested beginner decks, how to choose a deck, the fastest way to read the cards, best daily tarot practice to teach yourself tarot, the easiest way to interpret a card, and conclude with my Quick Start Tarot Kit. If you are a brand-new beginner, tarot newbie, tarot curious, or anyone who wants to get started reading tarot right away, you’ve come to my favorite place!
Interesting Beginner Tarot Decks: 22 Favorites
When choosing a beginner tarot deck, I suggest you start with the art. Choose your deck based on images that speak to you. With thousands of decks available, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. So to help you out, I’ve compiled this list of twenty-two interesting beginner tarot decks. I start off with my general rules for choosing a deck. Then you will find the list of twenty-two of my favorite choices for interesting beginner tarot decks. After that, you can peruse sample cards and read my thoughts on each of these decks.
Read Interesting Beginner Tarot Decks: 22 Favorites.
Choose Your Perfect Tarot Deck
A comprehensive list of considerations for choosing your perfect tarot deck including practical factors, artistic preferences, cultural and inclusivity considerations, and the bottom line.
Read Choose Your Perfect Deck.
Joy’s Quickie, DIY 5-Minute Guide to Reading Tarot
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 the most essential techniques experienced tarot card readers use when interpreting a specific tarot card in the context of a specific question. It is ALWAYS more important to discover your answers in the imagery of the card than to sloppily cut and paste standard meanings onto your very personal situation. Read Joy’s Quickie DIY 5-Minute Guide To Reading Tarot for these most basic tips and discover the fastest way to read tarot cards for yourself! Includes a video of a live workshop as well as my free downloadable pdf guide.
Read Joy’s Quickie DIY 5-Minute Guide To Reading Tarot and also see the video and download the pdf guide.
How To Learn Tarot
Many teachers suggest that the best way to learn tarot is to pull a card a day. I’m here to tell that is NOT a useful way to learn tarot! If you’d like to actually learn how to read the cards, make this your daily practice and you will be shocked at how quickly the cards start speaking to you. This is hands-down the best daily tarot practice to teach yourself tarot.
Read How To Learn Tarot.
Easily Interpret Tarot Cards with these Five Questions
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 the cards when doing a reading. These are questions to ask yourself as you study the card image. When you apply these five questions, you can easily interpret any tarot card from any scenic tarot deck just by looking at the card image. This is one of my most basic techniques for learning to read the cards, and is the foundation of my Quick Start Tarot learning method.
Read Easily Interpret Tarot Cards with these Five Questions.
Quick Start Tarot Kit
First time reader? Or maybe you have some experience but just got a new tarot deck? Either way, grab my Quick Start Tarot Kit to learn the fastest and easiest way to read tarot cards. Bonus: My method also gives you the most accurate interpretations! No books required, no years of study, no memorized meanings, and yes — shocking but true — no keywords. Just cards, images, and stories. I’ll show you how! This pre-recorded class has tons of content for only $35, and there’s a free preview to try before you buy.
