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•°•°The cards, the cards, the cards will tell! The past the present and the future as well!°•°•

While every card could arguably have its own page to itself, an overview of the practice of reading tarot cards itself might help point you in the right direction.

Querent and Reader

There is a lot of vocab in magic, and divination is no different. The querent is the person asking the question, whether they have their hands on the deck or not. The reader is exclusively the person interpreting the reading. You don’t have to use this vocabulary, but that is what that means if it comes up.

Ideas About Choosing Decks

There are a number of traditions and ideas behind how someone should choose a deck. Some say that you should only ever be gifted a tarot deck and should note endeavor to buy your own. Others think that that is just meant to keep people out of the practice and away from their business.  It is also said that a tarot deck should call to the person who wants it. There is this idea that you will simply know one is for you when you see it. While picking the best deck for you is always better, if you just want to play around with it, there is nothing stopping you from just picking any old deck of cards out.

Those who lean into a more relationship based idea of a deck might put more importance on a deck “choosing you” or “calling out to you” than those who view decks as simply tools that assist in honing their own abilities. The former more so treats the deck like it’s own being, and respects it’s answers as if it has thoughts and feelings of it’s own.  The later treats any failings of interpretation or outcome on the ability of the reader to interpret the cards.

Spreads

Spreads in tarot work by designating specific questions to different parts of a reading.  For example a three card spread most classically has past, present, and future. What you’re really asking is “What is past in this situation?”, “What is currently going on in this situation?”, and “What is the future in this situation as is?”. A spread streamlines the process of asking all three.  The “Celtic Cross” is another very popular, but much longer spread. Spreads can be done with multiple decks, multiple cards, and similar.  Those that don’t use spreads tend to ask the deck questions one at a time.

To make your own spread you take common questions asked about a situation and assigned them placements in your reading.  If you would like to know for example, “What should I be concerned about?”; “How do I avoid this?”; “What will happen if I don’t listen?”; and “What will happen if I do listen?”, you might pick four positions and label them 1: Concern, 2: Solution, 3: Current Outcome, 4: Changed Outcome.  Some like to add flair and arrange the decks to better reflect what the spread is about.  A spread for attaining happiness might be arranged in a smiley face for example. There is more art to the arrangement than science.

Major Arcana

The major arcana is the portion of the deck numbered 1 to 22. These are often considered more important than the minor arcana when they show up in a reading, but not always. The major arcana tend to be representative of large, all consuming, archetypes.

Minor Arcana

The minor arcana are the suit cards.  Usually numbering 1 to 10 and going into page, knight, queen, and king not too much unlike a standard deck of cards. There are four standard suits in tarot, cups, pentacles, wands, and swords.  Each suit tends to have meanings the cards within lean towards. There is some belief that the court cards (page, knight, queen, and king) often represent other people in a reading. For example: pulling a queen of cups in a situation asking about what is stopping you from accomplishing a goal might imply that a woman who with strong emotions is what is holding you back.

Interpretation Through Meaning Some forms of tarot reading involve interpretation through meaning either using a guidebook, or the traditional meanings ascribed to the cards (usually based on the standards of rider waite). This is by far the most common form of card reading.  Often even personal interpretations are based on or inspired by the guidebooks for an individual deck or the commonly accepted meanings.

Interpretation Through Image

Other forms of tarot interpretation involve the images themselves. The querent asks a question, the reader pulls a card, and then the reader interprets to the querent how the image, (whether it be through symbolism, feeling of the card, or very literal images), answers their question.

Shuffling

There are different kinds of shuffling techniques, and even more different kinds of reasons practitioners shuffle their decks.  The most obvious reason being that the cards need to be mixed around to properly read with them.  However, others do this for cleansing purposes, or to add energy to the deck as they focus on what they would like to ask. 

As for the ways that people do them, some mix the cards around in piles and recombine them.  Others throw the cards together in their hands, cutting and remixing them as they see fit.  Others will shuffle them like a standard deck of cards, but many standard tarot decks are a little large and bulky for this to always be a viable option.

Often the idea is to induce a bit of randomness, entropy, and unknown, as magic is said to work in the spaces that are not observed.

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1. I love the commitment to The White Knight universe and your breakdowns on the Characters and the wider themes of the story being told. It feels very real, and you hold characters responsible for what they did and the impact that they had on the children you focus on the most.

2. Your videos have an amazing color scheme and the avatar you use for the videos is simple yet effective. The set up is easy to watch and listen or just listen to.

3. How passionate you are inspired me to go back and do a reread of White Knight. I think it's a skill not a lot of people have. To be able to be so passionate about something that it makes others get drawn in too.