> Most Tarot decks consist of 78 cards: 22 Major Arcana, and 56 Minor
> Arcana cards. The Minor Arcana consist of four "suits", just like a
> deck of regular playing cards.
> The four suits are, Pentacles or Coins, which deal with work/money/
> success issues, the Wands, or Staffs, which deal with more spiritual
> issues, the Cups, which deal with emotional issues, and the Swords,
> which some see as representing negative experiences and loss. If you
> want more of an explanation of these cards, then check out a Crash
> Course in Tarot #1.
> When starting out, I highly recommend making your life easy, and
> getting the person to ask you a question out loud. Both parties should
> focus on the question while you shuffle the cards. As you get more
> experienced or confident with the cards, you won't care if they ask a
> question, but repeating the questioner's question out loud yourself
> does seem to assist the divination process.
> Shuffle the cards until the person you are reading for feels it is
> "right" to stop or until you feel it is right to "stop". After you are
> done cutting, you need to cut the deck. Most readers divide the deck
> into three piles. At this point you can either have the person you are
> reading for pick which pile to pick up as the top of the deck, or you
> can pick them up in an order that feels right to you. Another option
> is to fan the cards out face down, and have the person you are reading
> for pick out the cards they want you to read. Then lay them out in the
> order they are suppose to appear for the spread....

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