I am a newbie and very keen to learn the tarot cards.

Any advice or tips is appreciated.

I have the Rider Waite deck

As I mentioned to you on an earlier post, please go to the Academy Forum and there you will find lessons about the Rider Waite tarot cards.

If you have any questions, air them with us either in this forum or in that one and we will be all happy to do our best for you.

Enjoy your journey.

Hi Irish Witch,
Yea, so you have the Raider Waite deck of cards and most probably the LWB?(little white book), in which you found the meanings of the cards or interpritations and have a good look see, one card's meaning just ends, and info lost? in here also you found the first referance to the Celtic Cross, and most probably tried a reading or two???

This is how it all begins, nothing wrong as all readers went the exact same route.

The RW deck is the one mostly used as it displayes or portrayes the symbolism in Tarot the best. It hardly helps to get a deck, which you need to interpret secondary symbols to derive at the actual fact. You get lost eventually.

I think i have about ten or twelve books on Tarot, and so, confusing at the best of times. Each book a different angle and not really consistent at all.

The first piece of advice i read in all of them, is for the reader to meditate on each card, and then derive at your own conclusions, regarding each card. Reading Tarot cards is a personal thing, and sometimes you may see a spread and it just gives you a totally different angle to what the cards are telling you. It says, "use your psychic" intuition as well.

Follow the Tarot course on the RW and after that, get to start building your own set of interpritations. Then, you will start reading Tarot.

Blessed be