We just came across our first yods in our Tarot Reading lessons and i'm just hoping someone give me a little info on what or how yods are used in a reading!

thanks in advance  

When I first saw this post the other day, I had to do a double take because I thought you were doing a play on words "What are the yods" like it was a question "What are the odds?". And then I realized it was "what are yods?" Seeing no one has reponded I hope it's not against forum rules to post a few links, but I Googled it for you; there is such a thing as yods in astrology (which describes yods as planets forming a sextile) and in tarot (they appear to be dart like or arrows, not spears - but they show an example in one of the links provided) and then the word also means creating anagrams from particular words by adding another letter. Here is what I found, hope one of these links helps

morewords.com/word/yods/
astrologynew.com/node/96
yodastrology.com/yods.html
dharma-talks.com/ezine/2001fall.htm

thank you for taking the time to do this!  

my dictonary say a Yod is  1. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.  2. any of the sounds represented by this letter.

in the Tarot cards you will see Yods falling from the sky or in the sky etc.  just wanted to know how it fits in!

thanks again for the time you took    will print and read them later.  

George have you investigated Aleister Crowley, The Golden Dawn and the Thoth deck? Many tarotists seem to follow one legion ( Waite) or another (Crowley) and there is a massive difference between feelings about whether these objects are actually yods or raindrops or sun drips. It really comes from your beliefs about the tarot and where it originated and so on?

no, have not checked into them. This ideals and concepts are somewhat new to me so i'm just starting to learn about them.  although it does clear so stuff up in my mind about the subject because i read very little about it when i first got my cards and it was just too heavy to deal with at the time. i knew (assumed) in a reading or learning right now in the beginning that i really didn't need to know what the numbers mean, ever single image on the cards,  the colors in the cards and yods was something i would pickup on it later in my education.    Will check out those decks later and see what happens.  thanks Gem