Whenever you’re bored or feel the need to do something exciting, you can always rely on tarot cards. With a deck of tarot cards, you can formulate different scenarios about your past, present, or future. Playing around with these cards is a great way to kill time, and better yet, you can also predict the past/future events of a friend. For beginners, the ideal combination would be a three-card spread. This combination is easy to understand and is enjoyable to interpret. If you don’t know how to use these cards, don’t worry, we’ll teach you the basics of how you can perform a tarot reading ( you can also try to get a free tarot reading here) in three simple steps!
1. Select a topic and ask a question
The first step of interpreting a tarot spread is to decide a topic on which you wish to gain insight. When tarot cards there are many topics that one can use. These topics can be related to your love life, your future career, your financial situation, and even your health. Secondly, you’ll need to ask a question for the tarot cards to interpret. Keeping this in mind, you should also try to ask a question that starts off with a ‘when,’ ‘what,’ or ‘how.’ For instance, you can ask questions like ‘when will I meet my soulmate?’ or ‘what will my financial situation be in the next ten years?
2. Split your deck into three parts
You will need to divide your deck into three separate parts before actually interpreting them. Once you’ve separated the deck into three piles, you will then need to flip each of the three piles facing up words. You’ll see that you’ll be left with three piles that will be depicting three images either from the major arcana, minor arcana, or both. For example, after you flip the piles, you could end up with cards like The Empress, The Queen, and The Magician (cards from the major arcana).
3. Interpret the three piles:
Based on the cards you get from the major arcana or the minor arcana, you will then be able to interpret what the cards mean. Beginners, however, may find it a little difficult to understand what the cards mean. To overcome this obstacle, you can use a tarot cheat sheet to understand what the cards are telling you. But to break it down for you, the first card will represent your past, the events that have been preventing you from unlocking your true potential. The second card will represent your present situation as well as the challenges you are currently facing. Lastly, the third will represent the direction in which you’re heading. Moreover, the third card will give you some insight in terms of what you can expect in the future.
Final Words
To get a basic understanding of how tarot cards work, the three steps mentioned above should suffice. But do keep in mind that this is just a basic interpretation of a three-card tarot spread.
After a little practice, you can work your way up to challenging combinations such as five-card, ten-card, and even twenty-card tarot spreads. If you don’t have time for all of this , you can get a professional reading here.
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