Hi,

I am learning tarot reading. I have a couple of books but I would like detail meanings of reversed cards. Can anyone help please?

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Moving your question to Tarot...since this is not a reading request.

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Hi Emsummer, welcome,

Which deck are you using?

Hi,
 I personally and have encountered quite a few others that do not use reverse meanings, which maybe why you're finding trouble seeing them in books.  (I did too when I first started reading tarot).  This may sound really really lame, and it probably is, but have you tried The Idiots Guide to Tarot?  That book goes into detail about reversed meanings.  
  Also, if you're feeling inclined to negative attributes to cards, but don't want to mess your cards around, there's a trick I'ved learned from working with the Crowley decks.  Let's say you've got the three of cups with the ten of pentacles (disks or coins depending) on one side and the Ace of Wands/Rods/Staves on the other, right?  Well, because those two other elements oppose or don't work well with water, then the Ace of Cups, instead of meaning, "love, healing, emotional bliss," or however you understand the card, may mean the opposite.

...Er... I think water and earth don't work well or is it air and water... *bangs noggin"  It's too early, and I've just begun to drink my coffee.  ...Talk about first impressions, eh?  

Hi Bean Draoi,

I also use reversed meanings, i don't turn my cards whatsoever. I managed to compile a "manual" of which i interprited the cards with captions of "advise", Thinking about one now, it actually says, " You're screwed, because you took on to much to handle"

What i did was to assign each minor arcanum to weeks in the lunar year. Although i have'nt try to actually blend the two but i think you may get some guidance, like Queens would be:
Pentacles, Water of Earth.
Cups, water of Water
Wands, fire of water
swords, air of water.
The Queens sit in Cancer. and Kings in Leo.

Something interesting, Wands dipicting firewater, has a link with temperance, remember firewater has it's name from Brandy or whisky, Christ turning water into wine? Some alchemy perhaps?

Blessed be