Tarot Card Reading For Beginners - Your Complete And Free Tutorial

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My tarot card reading for beginners tutorial will help you learn how to read the cards while developing your sense of intuition. Even without a developed psychic sense you will still obtain a useful and accurate reading by following the specific divination meanings of the cards.

Reading tarot cards is the more complex of the divination/prophecy arts. However it is one of the most fulfilling. Tarot cards are many things to many people. In fact for many people, reading the tarot is a complete way of life!

In the hands of a skilled psychic reader, a deck of tarot cards is little short of a magic wand. And the art of reading tarot cards is often used by psychic teachers as the best method of expanding a person’s intuitive and psychic abilities.

I have gone to some lengths to de-mystify tarot card reading for beginners for the purposes of these lessons. The amount of mystique you wish to apply is up to you.

Richi Who's Tarot Card Reading For Beginners

Note:  The Tarot a portal to the psychic realm. It is not a game! As you embark on tarot card reading for beginners you are entering the psychic's realm. Expect to attract unusual and odd coincidences and events to yourself.

Tarot Card Reading For Beginners - Get Acquainted With Your Cards

How do I get started with tarot cards?

Begin by getting acquainted with the major arcana.  Arrange the majors into order, they are numbered by roman numerals from 0 (The Fool) through to XXI (The World) Examine each of the major Arcana cards one by one and read the meaning. There is no need to learn the explanations by rote; however you do need to develop a good impression of the meaning of the card and the relevance of each of its items. Familiarity with each card is the best I can explain it. Notice first the most obvious element of the card; now notice the least obvious element.

The least obvious element will probably change for each different reading, and as such is an important indicator. Somewhere between the explanation of each card and your own impressions you will reach your own understanding of each card. If you can create a story-line for each card by using your imagination it will help to explain the application of each card. After all, when you are actually doing a reading, it is your imagination which is the channel for your psychic impressions.

It is then a good idea to run through the same acquaintance exercise with each of the four minor suits.

Note:  your understanding is what is important here. What the card means to you over-rides all else. 

During my explanations, my preferred term for the person who the reading is for is the subject. However, in some instances I have used the terms the person, client or seeker. All are interchangeable. The traditional term "Querent" (one who queries), is normally used to represent the person receiving the reading. However my preferences are for "Subject" or "Client".

Tarot Card Reading For Beginners - Card Reading Instructions

Now I spread the deck face down out across the cloth in an arc and ask the subject to select and hand me a card. Naturally if you do not allow others to handle your pack you will have to select the cards for them. Of course before this point you need to know what type of spread you want to work with. As your subject hands you each card turn it over and lay it down in its order/position in the spread. Continue until the spread is complete.

Now start interpreting the spread. Don't think, don't analyse, just let it flow. It may not make sense to you - it doesn't have to - It is not your reading!

These tarot card reading instructions are a broad guide only. Actually, you will find that most readings take on a life of their own. Of course you will tailor the reading to the person you are reading for, but be warned, appearances can be deceiving, so let the cards do the talking.

It is all very well to have a tarot reading chart by your side, but when it come to a real reading, you are reading for people, and usually people you do not know. An understanding of people is most important because your clients have come to you for advice. Whilst the advice is in the cards, its delivery is in your hands. This tutorial can get you as far as the reading, then you have to deliver!

If you find that you need clarification on a card, don't hesitate to ask your subject to draw another card to expand on the card in question.

A personal quirk of mine is to have the subject draw a "character" card at the start of the reading. From this card I give them an overview of their character or situation. This for my own confidence, just to be sure, that I have made a connection with my subject. (There have been one or two times when for whatever reason I simply could not make a connection with my subject and have had to call the reading off.)

On some occasions I have also had my client draw cards for the past and future outcome for the same reasons. Whatever passes into your consciousness during the reading is part of the reading. Don't expect it to make sense! It doesn't have to.

It is often more difficult to read for friends and acquaintances than for strangers because we think we know them so there is the chance of skewing the reading to meet expectations, both ours and theirs.

When reading performing a tarot reading your clients will expect you to be :

• A clairvoyant.
• A confessor.
• A counselor.
• An oracle.
• A listener.
• A best friend.
• A confidant. - What transpires in a reading stays in the reading. 

You are acting as a counselor when you are reading someone’s cards. A certain level of detachment is important. Empathy is great, sympathy is not!

When you are reading for someone else, the impressions you receive are not yours, you are simply the mouthpiece! The information and impressions you receive for someone else are for themselves. So give them away and don't own them! Carrying around a client's problems is a sure recipe for disaster in your own life. In your reading you will surprise yourself at just what you come up with.

Your interpretations of impressions you see on the cards will amaze the person you are reading tarot cards for. "How could you have known that!", is often a reaction you will receive. (However, you may have no idea what they are talking about. After all it is their reading).

Don't put your reality in there - it is your clients reality you are describing when you are reading their tarot cards.

I hope my tarot card reading for beginners tutorial is of some help to you in what is such a fascinating field.

Tarot Card Reading For Beginners - Quick Meaning Locator

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