How to start throwing cards: tarot for beginners

What type of deck is best to learn to throw the Tarot? What are the easiest rolls? How to protect my Tarot deck? Which one to buy? What do the arcana mean? As a hobby or as a job, more and more people go to different places to study tarot for beginners, this ancient discipline. We share a simple guide to know how to start throwing the cards.

How to throw Tarot cards: for beginners

According to astrologers and tarot readers, learning to throw the Tarot is a one-way trip. When you discover the magic of doing card spreads to answer key questions on your path, they say, you will never be able to abandon this wonderful practice again. In addition, it can be a fun space to share with your friends. We share some secrets to start throwing the Tarot.

How to start throwing the Tarot

We could think of the Tarot as a dynamic and mobile book through which 78 phrases or 78 cards are combined and circulated. Depending on where each card appears in a reading, it will be the interpretation that we can give to what the Tarot is trying to tell us, astrologers explain.

What Tarot deck to buy to start throwing the cards

There are several Marseillais Tarot decks. The ideal is to look at the cards before buying a deck since it is preferable that all your cards contain significant images that help in their interpretation.

Some Marseillais decks reproduce the original design where the minor arcana are the same as the Spanish cards, that is, they only show clubs, swords, coins, and cups.

Many of the more modernly designed decks have images on these arcana that represent the meaning of each card and make it easy to interpret. There are Tarot decks that are very educational when learning to interpret, such as Rider Waite’s, Barbara Walker’s, or Gill’s.

How to protect the deck of tarot cards

Once you have your deck of Tarot cards, the idea is to keep it in a cloth bag, preferably violet in color to protect the cards (a color of protection, regeneration, and balance that unites the tranquility of blue with the stimulation of the red). It alchemizes divine energy and makes it visible and understandable.

It is also suggested to pass the cards on the smoke of incense and on a full moon night let them receive the moonlight for a few minutes. In some cultures, those days are especially sought to make a spread and there are courses on how to cast Tarot cards at every moment of the year.

How to cut tarot cards

Before asking a question to the Tarot, the consultant must mix the cards, some prefer to mix the cards themselves and only give the consultant to cut but this is very personal and each tarotist will decide which dynamic makes him feel better. I suggest that the way of “cutting” the deck is the most spontaneous, the one that comes naturally to the consultant because it will be the one that makes the cards flow better to communicate; so much so that it occurred to him to cut once, twice or several times.

What to ask when throwing the Tarot?

Another fundamental step is to ask the question correctly, find what it is that you really want to know, and order it correctly. This leads to becoming aware of fears and redefining desires. It helps to realize that we usually ask in a negative way: “Am I sick?” or “Am I going to separate?”

When, in truth, the correct way to ask would be “how am I in health?” or “how am I doing with my partner?” In this way, if you answer a positive letter, the answer will be affirmative and, on the contrary, if you answer a complicated letter, the answer will be negative.

The messages of the Tarot cards and their meanings are clear if we learn to decipher them.

How to read the Tarot: the meaning

After learning how to throw Tarot cards, it is time to read the cards and understand the meaning of the arcana.

There are three basic Tarot readings:

• Simple Roll: It is used to answer specific questions: 3 1 2
  1.- Consultant. 2.- Environment. 3.- Answer.
• Horseshoe: It is used for an overview, no questions need to be asked.
  A card is chosen from the deck before cutting, which symbolizes how the consultant is: “C” and is located in the center.

The Tarot deck is cut and the cards are distributed in the following order:

• Family and home.
• Money and business.
• Love life.
• Profession and social achievements.
• The shadow, what one cannot see of oneself translates into enemies or adversity situations.
• Possibility of Growth: Earnings, with what energy it is possible to expand.
• Advice or Learning.

• Couple bond: It is used to ask about couple bonds or any other kind of bond between two people that you want to delve into how it is being experienced by both parties.

Fan out the deck and draw 3 cards.

• First card: draw with the left hand, represents how the other is.
• Second card: take out with the right hand, it represents how the consultant is (you).
• Third card: take out with the right hand, it represents how the bond is.

You already know how to read Tarot cards and how to start reading the messages that the decks give away. Take advantage of it and enjoy a very interesting discipline.

Flipping cards can be a very entertaining experience.