I bought my first set of tarot cards from a discount book store when I was about 18 years old. I found that I took to them very easily and after only a few practise readings with the book I was able to intuitively read the whole spread instead of just the individual cards. I started doing readings for friends and when they realised how accurate my readings were, word spread and I could have made my fortune there and then (No I never charged for readings but I could have done as people were willing to pay). I then had quite a bad experience and stopped reading.

Recently I have become enveloped by friends who themselves are very much involved in lots of spiritual and metaphysical things. My best friend is a Reiki healer and he has recently started reading the tarot and Runes and I just found that my gift hasn't gone away.  Another friend is a healer with crystals and angel cards too.

I have recently just bought myself a set of Harmony Angel cards and the Heart and Soul Angel cards by Angela McGerr which are gorgeous.

Well .. as a kid I have been always attracted towards the divine. I have groped into astrology, numerology palmistry but never went in depth into any of them.
Tarot was like a calling. So I was in this small bookshop shopping for books, nothing on divination mind you. Just general fiction kind of stuff. And then suddenly I had this strange urge to check out a corner in the shop where the tarot cards were on display. Never before had I thought about tarot cards, but I knew I just had to understand them.
I didnt even know the different types of decks. I went back home, readup about getting the right deck for yourself and plunged into buying a RW deck.
The journey since then has been one of continuous learning.

Good choice and idea to start with the Rider Waite..

And, welcome to the forum aparajita.

Please feel free to air your experiences and your journey, as we are all learning from each other here, regardless of age and lenght of time being invovled with the tarot or any other form of divination.

Have you tried the pendulum? We may be digressing here....  One step at a time.

Thanks for the welcome cedars .. Feels good to be a part of a forum like this and as you rightly said an enriching experience for each one of us.

I haven't tried the pendulum , but I wish to. Just waiting for the right time for the call to come from my inner self.

My daughters mother in law actually got  me interested in it.  She reads Gypsy Witch....I still don't get that.  And she is good.  She has read for me many times and NEVER missed a beat. She always walks me thru it and explains what she see's and how she see's it.  So I started getting more interested in it.  Here I am, couple years later and I'm still trying to learn it.  She tells me not to try so hard and to just keep at it and it will come.  She also says to think of it as a game and it comes easier.  ya well, I can't seem to get to that point where things just start to click.  So here I am.