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Beginner's guide
Everything you need to start reading tarot — the structure of the deck, the four suits, and how to actually run a reading.
What a deck is
A tarot deck is 78 cards in two parts. The Major Arcana is 22 cards covering the big turns — beginnings, endings, reckonings. When one appears, the reading is about something structural.
The Minor Arcana is the remaining 56, split into four suits of fourteen. These are the texture of ordinary life: the week you are having rather than the decade.
The four suits
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Running a reading
Ask a better question
Closed questions get thin answers. Instead of will I find love, ask what am I doing in relationships that I cannot see. The cards are far better at describing a situation than at predicting a date.
Shuffle with the question held
Keep the question in mind while you shuffle. Stop when it feels right, or when a card works its way loose — both are legitimate.
Read the spread, not the cards
A card means something different in the position it lands in. Read the whole layout as one sentence before you interpret any single card.
Reversals are optional
Plenty of readers work upright only. If you do read reversals, treat them as the same energy blocked, turned inward, or overdone — not simply as the opposite.
Venus in Retrograde
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