Ritual
Do you use special rituals, etc before starting a reading? Tarot reading rituals - info please! Dependancy on ritual So what are your rituals? Rituals/procedure for agnostics/non-denominal folks? Question about care of deck Sleeping on a card Purification, Ordering, Cleansing & Charging How to cleanse my cards Ordering and purifying your tarot cards Ordering the Deck Between Readings? Others touching my cards Cleansing and charging your cards smudging Reorganizing Cards? Grounding, centering, shielding grounding and centering before readings
Forming a question Rephrasing the question Basic types of questions Yes & No questions Yes/No-Questions Asking the correct questions Asking the deck a question... Specific vs. general questions in readings To know the Question or not know the Question? When the spread only mirrors my question... Relationship between cards and questions asked Stating the question aloud vs. keeping quiet... Do you ask the question as you pull the card? How often do you ask a YES/NO question? Asking serious questions (and what if you don't like the answers) The Querants Question- Do you hear it before or after a reading?
who?
Another question from Ms. Perplexed: who shuffles? Querants and shuffling Shuffling - I prefer to shuffle for the client Others touching my cards How? Riffling vs. lacing Riffle shuffle? Shuffling tips? okay to riffle? Shuffling Cards Way to shuffle? *shuffle shuffle* Shuffling Method How do you shuffle a large deck? What's your shuffling method, why does it work for you? Interest in a shuffling video Kyrielle's Rhythmic Focus Shuffle Shuffling and cutting the deck Shuffling & Cutting the deck.. CONFUSED - help! Shuffling and card selection Shuffling when using reversals Reshuffle before drawing clarification card? Cards falling out while shuffling Shuffle and storage question How do you shuffle? Anyone not shuffle between readings? Jumpers Jumping Cards Cards that Jump Flipped cards Dropped Cards Jumpers in Past/Present/Future spread That card that jumps out! Hazards of shuffling Aggressive Shufflers Accidental shuffles Shuffling related injury How to shuffle with Carpal Tunnel syndrome Philosophy of shuffling Why is there Shuffle? Does it matter how I shuffle the cards? How random is your shuffle?
Cutting the deck (lionheart) Cutting the deck (the hermit) Separating deck? To Cut The Cards or Not to Cut The Cards...
"choosing" cards Choosing the cards. I'm perplexed. How do you pick your cards? Drawing cards off top or from a fan Pulling cards off the deck for readings Card from top or fan out deck? How do you pick extra cards? Pick the card Hand type in spreads? (picking cards with left or right hand)
Flip or Turn the cards? Laying of the cards How to place the cards Re-dealing? Dealing: Face up or down? How do you deal the cards laying the cards.... Unusual ways of dealing the cards Face up or face down...how do you read your spreads? How do YOU draw cards for a reading? Anything wrong with Celtic Cross for everything? Laying out a Celtic Cross spread ~ What's your style? Spread-Less?
Drawing additional cards Those Clarification Cards How do you pick extra cards?
The Querent -- Reading for:
Pets? Skeptics The curious/skeptical Family members Teenagers/young adults Online For someone on line Public Cases Reading someone without permission Readings about others Reading for a third person General Reading Techniques What to say when wrapping up a reading What do you think of one-card readings? Reading in Special Situations To converse with the dead Outdoors In public On a palm pilot anybody read during full or new moons? Long Distance Readings Reading Problems Readings that don't work Negative readings Really way off readings Strange Readings really off readings Confusing Readings Irrelevant readings Reader's Block The Reading doesn't count when Do you parrot or read cards? How to make your tarot readings longer Online readings: how could you possibly believe in them? Online Tarot Readings? what if a question is a lie? bad deck? What do you do when a reading is totally off the mark? (+ the tricky Courtcards) Cards you *still* don't get! Is it possible not to be able to read Reading for yourself What about reading for yourself? How do you do an effective reading for yourself? Self-Reads v/s Reading For Others (DollChica) Self-Readings vs. Readings for Others (ChrisTheObscure) Reading for Yourself Reading for Self/Developing Intuition/Cleansing the Deck Reading as meditation/for answers How often do you read for yourself? When reading for yourself do you take from deck or...
Newbie & General Questions
Beginnerís Query & reversed cards???? When do you know to reverse meanings? How do reversed cards work? Should newbies wait before using reversals? Are my spreads wrong if I don't use reversals? Can Majors be read reversed too? Ill-Dignified...How Can You Tell? Reversals a must? reversals, should we or should we not? Reversals were NOT designed in original tarot Reversals: how important is consistency? Interpretations How do you interpret reversed cards? What's the general opinion about reversals...? Reversed cards as opposites? Reversals as blockage Using Reversals Unsuccessfully Do you or don't you... Reversals or not??? To reverse or not to reverse? Reversals or no reversals... that is the question! What does it mean to not use reversals? Reversals, and the lack thereof In a Celtic Cross, upright the crossing card? Reading Reversals - My Perspective Shuffling for reversals A, maybe strange, question about reversals Creating Reversals Practical Reversals question sans debate Ultra-stupid question on reversed cards Am I upside down? Question concerning Reversals? Polls Poll: To allow reversals or not - that is the question! Poll: Do you use reverse meanings Poll: Do you use reversals? Do you use a base card in readings? Do you use Astrology when reading Tarot? Questionnaire Reversals -- opinions, please
Majors Only Yes/No cards My Yes/No Cards by Fudugazi What card guarentees a "yes" How to do a reading with all 78 Cards Any advise on finding names or initials
Significators - Solandia Significator - Teal Significators - Demonesse Significator - Butterfly A beginner question: Significators Question regarding significators Choosing a significator? Choosing a Significator Choosing a significator / the cowardly way Significator = Zodiac / Major Arcana Gift Card Becomes Signifier? Zodiac signs, court cards, significators Finding the significator how important is it to use a significator card? Choosing a significator according to the nature of the question Must we find a Significator card for querent before reading?
What is your Year Card - 2001 (MeeWah) What is your Year Card - 2003 (joya250) Personal card Finding YOUR personal tarot card out of your deck Personal Power cards How do you work out Personality,Soul and Year Cards? Key Cards Lifetime Cards- Personality, Soul and year ñ how do we use them? Soul - and personality card quickie...! soul card/personality card What was your Strength year like? Offering to Help find your Soul/Personality/Year Card What are your Tarot Birth Cards? Year card - Wheel of Fortune Shadow and Quint cards Shadow Cards? Base card Shadow card? What is a shadow card? The card on the bottom of the deck? shadow card how to read a shadow card? the card on the bottom of the deck? Cards on the bottom of the deck What are the base and quintessential cards for? Do you use a base card in readings shadow card significance odd shadow cards The bottom card, how do you read it base card and 'top' card shadow card What is a Quintessence card and a Shadow Card? top and bottom card interpretations? Questions about personality/soul/shadow cards shadow card? Card at the bottom of the deck.
Non-illustrated pips Studying non-scenic pips-The Elements Studying Non-Scenic Pips - the number 9 and it's associations Studying non-scenic pips - Divination System Methodology Studying Non-Scenic pips: The Fives and the Water Element Studying Non-Scenic Pips - Numerological Approaches Studying Non-Scenic Pips - the 5s Studying non-scenic pips - the Suits: Coins Pips and Trumps How to easily use non illustrated pips ( from the Knapp Hall method)] Pips Pip cards / Tarocco delle Vetrate Old English Tarot's pips. Help! New to unillustrated pip decks Pictures vs. Symbols on the Pips Pips: the meaning of the numbers
Numerological, elemental
Elemental correspondances Numerology in Tarot? Elements and Majors Numerology and the Minor Arcana Minors and numerological systems Pips : Element and Numerology Elemental Dignities Elemental Dignities question Elements and suits The Temperament Experiment swapping elements Elemental Dignities... Neutral Cards?? Ill Dignified Cards?? Elemental Dignities: inversions Astrological Tarot & the Zodiac Natal Charts for Cards Court Cards & Astrology - Help Please Astrological Signs and Court Cards Astrology and Tarot cards The Combining of Tarot and Astrology Major Arcana & Zodiac sign correspondences Minors - Origin of Astrological Assignments The Golden Dawn's astrological correlations to the Major Arcana Astrological Associations Seasonal Seasons and the Suits Seasons & Elements Seasons of the Tarot? Do suits represent seasons Time Question about timelines and cards Question re: spreads / timing / elementals Poll - Whats the maximum time span you covered? Just a matter of time A matter of timing Timing Celtic Cross Time Telling Timing Systems Timing Events: any specific cards? Question on time frames Has anyone found particularly accurate method of telling time with the cards? A question of timing... An interesting way to determine time An ultimatum Nisaba's Timing Method Medical Healing with Tarots! The Dr is in ? Tarot and health Tarot for 'diagnosis' Health Problems Who is the doctor? Tarot notes concerning health Gender Tarot cards as masculine and feminine Nutritional Diet and Tarot?? Flavours for The Cards....? Animal Animal associations? Musical Tarot Cards and Musical Notes Musical Minors Life Moments Music & tarot correlation? Emotional anger card Other Wise sayings = Cards Sexual orientation and the tarot Cards for Moving & Relocation? what cards are your LEAST favorite to see? Cards that show the internet Dealing with Death Card Combo to predict physical death imprisonment cards Finding the "Positives" and the "Negatives"
Repeating Cards Whose Journey is it? It's not the Fool's Journey The Fool's Journey The Reversed Fool's Journey Quabalists do the Foolís Journey Backwards The Moonís Journey I The Moons Journey II The Moon's Journey III Interpretation of the Majors Sequence ... As Creative Process As the Six Days of Creation EPIPHANY! A New Take on the Major Arcana Majors only - original Layouts for Studying Major Arcana Putting cards together How do you read relationships between the cards? How to connect the cards together Interesting Tarot Pairs Interesting Combinations using a three card system for courts Funny Misinterpretations Uses for Tarot Does anyone use Tarot as a card game?9 What mnemonics and data sets do you use with your decks?
Advice for Beginners
Ways of learning Tarot Self-teaching Learning the Tarot by Joan Bunning and The Rider Tarot Deck Learning without the Rider-Waite Deck How Often should I read? Difficulty Reading New Decks New to tarot cards - need some advice Should beginners' emphasis be on book or cards? Experts Advice To Newbies Dilemma Learning the Cards Study the cards Learning the cards How to learn ñ memorizing cards How to learn your deck got enough symbols? Does anyone have tricks on how to remember the cards and their meanings? UK Readers (memorizing with poems) Fake a reading (reading for imaginary clients to practice) Keeping a Journal Tarot Journal Tarot Journal Tarot Journal Question Keeping a Tarot Journal How to keep a tarot journal How do you journal your Tarot Daily Readings Daily Readings -AM? PM? Questions about daily cards Alternative to daily readings: for your notebook Daily Cards Daily Cards (Nexorious) Daily Card (Gloria) How do you choose your daily card? Problem with Daily Readings How do I find a daily reading to fit my lifestyle? Exercises Exercise: 3 Card Daily as a Motto #2
What does the Tarot really show us?
The truth, or the reaction? Reflections instead of readings? Are all the cards both positive and negative? Have we over complicated the cards? Puzzled: Is Tarot a kind of energy exchange? Meaning & Image The One-Handed Shuffle Intuitive versus Analytical Approaches Analytical Readings Trusting the intuition... About using different tarot decks Effect of style of deck on readings Switching decks for readings Differences In Decks- How Do You Read Them?
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