One of the biggest myths about Tarot cards, one that persists to this day, is that Tarot cards harbor the great secrets of the Ancient Egyptians. Tarot cards can only be traced back to about 1480—long after the great rein of the Egyptian pharaohs—and were invented to play a card game called Tarocchi. Antoine Court… Read more »
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Tarot Myths Debunked
When I do my Introduction to Tarot Cards class, I get asked questions like “Don’t you have to have someone gift you your first deck?” and “Do you have to sleep with your deck under your pillow?” These are all myths. Do not feel bad if you believed them, I believed many of them too!… Read more »
How to read tarot cards—Spreads
A spread is a pattern of tarot cards that you make as you lay down cards to do a Tarot Card reading. Each card in the pattern has a label. It gives you a structure to work with in answering the question you are asking. You do not need a spread when you read tarot… Read more »
How to Read Tarot cards Part 5—Getting started reading
At this point, you have picked a deck and learned a little about how tarot works. Now you are ready to begin reading. As I have said before, I will not tell you the meanings of each card. All decks come with a booklet (called the Little White Book or LWB) you should read that… Read more »
How to read Tarot cards–Part 4 How do I pick a deck?
How do I pick a deck? For years I only used the most widely known tarot deck. The one I and most people learn on: the Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS) deck. I found it a bit embarrassing. I would meet other readers, and they would say, “Oh, you read tarot too? I use the Esoteric Tarot of… Read more »
How to read tarot cards–Part 2 What are tarot cards?
How are tarot cards structured? A standard tarot cards has 78 cards. There are Oracle decks (including one reading system that has gotten very popular called Lenormand) that have anywhere from 35 to 90 cards, but these are not tarot decks. You could say that all tarot decks are oracle decks, but not all oracle… Read more »
How to read tarot cards–Part 1 Introduction to Tarot Cards
Introduction to Tarot Cards I have been teaching an Introduction to Tarot Cards class for a couple of years now and I have decided that it is time to write down my approach to beginning to read tarot cards. I have always said that the best introduction to tarot cards is “You, Tarot cards. Tarot… Read more »
Where can I get a free Tarot Reading?
I want to mention some places that do free tarot readings. I get nothing from these places, and do not endorse them or their accuracy, but if you are looking for some quick insights, this may be the way to go. None of these include an obligation to sign up to get your free reading…. Read more »
5th of May
Before I was a tarot card reader, I was part of a puppetry guild. One meeting someone presented a talk about being a circus clown. “The Circus always had its first show of the season on the first of May, every year. New performers were called 5th of Mays. Especially the clowns.” Clowning around He… Read more »
The Hermit: Looking backward
So this is ChristmasAnd what have you done?Another year overAnd a new one just begun–John Lennon I should not name drop, but maybe I will a little. I knew the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, when she was just starting out as a children’s librarian in Chicago Public Library. Unlike me, she went on to… Read more »