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Hello, I am just fairly new to the tarot reading and it’s something I’m truly interested in learning more about. I want someone to try to help me understand the meanings behind each cards, the major arcana and the minor arcana with the 4 suits. I’ve tried looking up online and there’s a general meaning to each card and suit, but I wanted to know if there’s an easier way to remember each meaning as you’re interpreting the reading? So explain like you’re explaining to a complete stranger who doesn’t know anything about this, tarot for dummies per say lol. I know depending on the type of reading, each interpretation of the card can be different or how it applies. I’d love to hear all your explanations! I also think it’s my over analyzing and overthinking of each card, but also I go based off of what I generally know and what I can interpret off the pictures. I’m open to any cool tips on how you learned or your experience in learning as a beginner as well.
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Tarot for Beginners
updated 3 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
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Find a good voice that will help you through the first stages. TarotOracle on YouTube is a great option, for instance. Best of luck
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I would recommend Contemporary Tarot on YouTube. She’s got a really nice and quick way of explaining things. Another thing is to not get too hung up on the meaning of the cards. I’ve said this before as well but the cards tell a story. In the beginning it’s useful to have a deck like the Rider Waite in which the characters and people are doing things.
Look at the actions, look at how the characters are interacting with each other. Look at the colours. You’re reading a picture book and telling a story. It is of course important to know the basic meaning of the cards but don’t let it consume you.
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When I first started out, a guidebook I bought taught me to create my own “guidebook” if you will. I used a binder with a single page for each card. First I wrote the general/rider waite/common interpretations (I usually also used marks so I’d know if something was from a book/internet/lwb or from me) then over time I added my own interpretations to the list. It gave me an easy cheatsheet and helped me a lot to learn the card. I usually made the pages when a card came up, not all at once as that would have killed my enthusiasm quickly, too many cards. I still occasionally look at my lists of meanings, it gives a good overview based on the decks I own and my own interpretations.
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Adding to the idea of taking notes: I keep a chart in Google Drive where over time I have distilled my readings into relatively short explanations for each card. This is based on using several different decks and in the context of my own life experiences, and using the deck manuals, books, and websites as resources.
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In some decks there are astrological correspondences to each of the minors that follow a specific pattern. There are some charts that describe these attributions and once you get the pattern you’ll be able to look at a minor card, know its astrological correspondence, and interpret its meaning that way. But that’s just one among many ways of interpretation. Google “tarot astrological correspondences”, and study the pattern.
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I’m a big fan of Benebell Wen’s explanations. She goes in depth on multiple ways to look at tarot including spiritual and non-spiritual ways.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0x6BzLuplwYT09fbGZeulVm0drJEGxGb
