This is really cool!! Seems there are almost as may ways to learn as there are decks. When I started I did what my friend recommended which was to sleep with them under my pillow for 7 days so that it could connect to me. I didn't do any readings during that time. I looked at the cards and studied the pictures and read the book that came with it. Then I just read by explaining what I saw on the cards. I read with the book the first few times and started with simple 3 or 4 card readings and that was it. It worked well for me.