I am curious to find out how others feel about the different options in reading the tarot.

I guess I would be called a beginner and I know I have so much to learn but I am confused as to how many people that read tarot cards include reversed card. I have been told not to attempt a reading with reversed cards and vica versa....

I do not remove the death card as I have been told that it amounts to not playing with a full deck.

I have not included reversed cards in my readings as reversing meanings is proving to difficult.

Is this something that comes with time and practice or is there reasons to have or not have them......????

Any thoughts

you can actually get a good reading with out reverse cards i personally don't use reverse cards if there meant to be reversed then when there layed they come out reversed that is the only time i will read a reversed card a lot of readers don't use reversed cards and are quite happy with their results

Well from another beginner you get this thoughts.

I don't remove Death card or any other....Death is in reality a good card....it show among other thing that you have to let thing you struggle with go and start on fresh thoughts or action.

Tarot are many hundred of years old......only in the last 100 year have they introduced reverse card....and they call it progress because now you get the double of meanings.

Well they might put on many times more and it will not be better from that....in my view.
Why??....because the main factor is the reader.....it is the reader that true intuition and connection to the querent who are the most important part of a reading.

The card itself is just a tool to bring forward images and there is enough good and bad in the original set to give a full worthy reading.

For us "beginners" it is "a dumb action" to include reverse card.
Only when you are very confident in the original Tarot and start to feel that you lack something, then it can be time to extend with such and then it will be much much more easy to learn.

Many well known readers and Authors don't use Reverse at all....and as said...the most important piece is the one who held the card ...not the card itself

I'm about to show my ignorance here - but what is a reverse card? What are the instances when that would occur?

From context clues I'd guessed a reverse card was when you simply shuffled the deck and one card came up upside down.

I may be waaaay off.

Enlighten me please

If you guys are novices I guess that makes me an embryo lol

I still haven't bought my first deck yet but I love reading up about this in the meantime.

please dont feel ignorant anything that confuses deserves an answer you have guessed correctly it is a card that appears upside down in a reading
you dont need cards to join Gems tarot classes everyone is welcome to sign up