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So you’re ready to take the plunge into tarot and are wondering which deck to get?  Have you noticed that there are hundreds of choices?!  Ahhhh!!!

Have no fear, the psychic tarot lady is here!  (That’s me, in case you were wondering.  I hope you heard cool theme music in your head.)

First, go to Aeclectic.net and look at the hundreds of decks they have (you can even see pictures), and see which decks appeal to you.  Do they spark your interest?  Are they cards you would want to look at over and over?  Do you like the pretty colors?

If you want to learn psychic tarot, I strongly recommend getting decks with pictures for the numbered cards.  I mean detailed pictures, not just three circles for the three of pentacles, for example.  You’ll know what I mean once you start looking at decks.  When I do readings, my Spirit Guides draw my attention to certain images on the cards as one way to communicate messages.

Are you getting a tarot deck or an oracle deck?  The difference is that a tarot deck has 78 cards, major and minor arcana, and all decks basically have the same cards represented.  Oracle decks may have any number of different cards, are very different from each other, and usually do not follow traditional tarot meanings.  If you want an example of an oracle deck that’s incredible, check out Sonia Choquette’s Soul Lessons and Soul Purpose Cards.  I recently purchased this deck, and I love it.  As I read the meaning in the accompanying book of the card I picked, I feel like it was written just for me.

The most important part of choosing your tarot or oracle deck is following your intuition and paying attention to which deck you are drawn to.  Which one excites and inspires you?  Most people recommend getting a Rider-Waite deck, for example, but that deck has never appealed to me, so I’m probably the only tarot reader in the world who doesn’t own that deck.  It’s suggested because a lot of tarot books use that deck.  I’ve read many tarot books using other decks and never had an issue.

Follow your heart, and you will find the perfect deck for you!

Here are a few quick tips in order to ask effective tarot (or other divination tool) questions:

Ask open-ended questions, rather than Yes or No questions. You will get much more information about your question this way.  Also, yes/no questions are tricky because wording is so important.  For example, when I was in college, I was totally smitten with a certain man and asked if I was going to see him the next morning. I used a pendulum to get my answer, and the answer was yes.  I knew I was going to the church he goes to the next morning, and was so excited when I learned I would see him there.  I woke up extra early to get ready and arrive early so I could spend as much time as possible with him at church.  Well, he wasn’t at church that morning.  I was really hurt, confused, and disappointed.  Then, I thought back to my question and realized Read the rest of this entry »

Hello Everyone!  I’m currently writing a book on psychic tarot reading, and I thought I’d share a bit about reading the Court Cards.  Court cards can be confusing at times, and I think this is mainly because we try to pigeonhole them into the traditional meanings of young person, teenager, or adult.  Let’s open up to our psychic abilities and recognize the wealth of possibilities inherent in each court card! Read the rest of this entry »

Are you looking for a way to practice tarot reading that is easy, fun, and involves watching TV?  I just read a great idea from Sandy Anastasi’s book, Tarot Reader’s Workbook.  (If you’re looking for a tarot book, her book is excellent!)

Before you begin watching a show, choose a character and do a tarot reading for what will happen to him/her throughout the episode.  Then, watch it and see how you did!  This can also be done with movies and books.  I can’t wait to try this out!

I think it would also be helpful to do readings on shows you’ve already watched.  Then you can see how certain events are portrayed in the cards.  I do this with real-life situations as well.  If there’s something big in the news or my life that has happened, I do a reading and ask to be shown how this event would have been portrayed in a tarot reading.

Happy Tarot Reading!

Every tarot article on this site is going to center around reading the tarot psychically.  With that mindset, it is important that we trust our own intuitive sense on what is best for each reading.  Maybe we have a set way of doing things, like shuffling the cards ourselves, and then one day have an urge to hand the cards over to the seeker to shuffle.  I think this is what makes living with psychic awareness so much fun!  Every experience is an opportunity for Read the rest of this entry »

Visiting friends, want to do a tarot reading, and left your cards at home?  Use a deck of playing cards!  These are such a common household item and it’s very easy to correlate the meanings with what you already know about tarot cards. Some people develop new meanings for the playing cards, but I like to keep things easy.  If you are new to tarot and want to delve into them, check out my e-course on Psychic Tarot Reading.

Here are how the suits in tarot and playing cards correlate: Read the rest of this entry »

As I was thinking of crafty articles I could put on my website, the first one I thought of was to make a drawstring bag for various divination tools.  I have a tarot deck that could really use a bag, and I thought it would be so much fun to make one myself.  I imagined the step-by-step photos and goofy commentary I would make.  However, while I was searching the web to find out how to actually make the bags (ha!  I had no clue), I found a great website called Happy Things with detailed instructions and photos of several different types of drawstring bags, including a backpack version.  The simplest version (unlined) is at the bottom of her post.

Whether you buy your bag or make it, here are some ideas for making your bag extra unique and special: Read the rest of this entry »