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Lianne replied 9 years, 5 months ago

Oh, whoops… Just saw way down thread that people are already talking about this… Wish we could organize this a little better so that it’s easier to see what has been posted about without so much scrolling on my little phone.
- Mary L replied 9 years, 5 months ago
  
  Yeah, it’s too bad there isn’t more ability to sort through old threads.
  
  I don’t think this got mentioned in the older thread, but if you do want to read reversed cards, it helps to add reversing as an intentional step when you shuffle (like, at some point when you have the deck split, flip one half of it 180 degrees). This will keep things…[Read more]
  - Elisabeth replied 9 years, 5 months ago
    
    I end up getting reversals because I have little hands and am always dropping cards when I shuffle. I decided to not be careful about putting them back in the deck right side up. So …that’s my method of getting reversals…bad shuffling.
  - Beth replied 9 years, 5 months ago
    
    That’s a good idea – to actively embrace the reversed cards, rather than thinking ‘agh no’ every time one turns up.
Niki replied 9 years, 5 months ago

Hi Lianne, I don’t do reversals (yet!) so I’ve been very careful about shuffling them. Some ways I’ve seen people do who work with reversals is that they place the cards in a heap in front and they just swish them around and then when they feel it’s done they just scoop them all together.
- Beth replied 9 years, 5 months ago
  
  That’s my favourite method of shuffling :D But I don’t do it very often..
- Lianne replied 9 years, 5 months ago
  
  I guess my problem has been that once a card is upside down, it stays upside down for a long time and it always felt like I was trying to mix them up on purpose which felt unnatural. The pile and random swooshing method might be the solution to that, though!
Layna replied 9 years, 5 months ago

Hi Lianne, tarot for me personally is a way of bringing hope and optimism into my life and my friends’ lives, and so I was hesitant initially to work with inverted cards. But from the very first reading I did, I realized that an upside-down card doesn’t necessarily have to give it an opposite or negative meaning, as I had at first thought. For me,…[Read more]
- Lianne replied 9 years, 5 months ago
  
  I like this interpretation of the reversal! I always got too caught up in the binary-ness of using reversed cards and I felt it took away from some of the subtleties of my readings. Your method seems like it actually ads more subtlety!
Corinna replied 9 years, 5 months ago

I really like reading with reversed cards, but I think it depends on the deck your using, and it’s not always necessary ! There’s a really good introduction to it here: http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/card-meanings/reversed/introduction.shtml

Basically it says that reversed cards don’t always have to have the opposite meaning of the card drawn. It…[Read more]

Elisabeth replied 9 years, 5 months ago

Welcome winter!
I feel the disorganization also but I’m not sure there is a way of making this more organized. I also wish we got email updates when someone makes a new post vs. just when someone responds to a comment.
Alison replied 9 years, 5 months ago

I checked out your blog, Winter, and WOW. Your tarot journals are absolutely gorgeous!
- winter replied 9 years, 5 months ago
  
  Thanks Alison…!
  
  Yeah I agree Elisabeth… I am trying to find a way of keeping track!

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