An interesting thing these playing cards.
When I went to a tarot one-day workshop some years ago, two students had brought their playing cards and sat at the tarot workshop. I thought it was amazing that they had those cards as a tool for divination (I was unaware at the time) and yet they sat at the course and they got absorbed into the actual tarot cards as well.

Ombra, may be it will be a good idea if you followed MB's new tarot course soon to be launched here.

Oh, and I would love to see a reading done by your playing cards

Wow, tons of great info. I am definitely going to look into the tarot course. Great Idea to just offer some light-hearted readings until I'm confident enough.

There's nothing more impressive than to take out a normal deck of cards and read from them, it can leaves folks looking on in awe. Its a bit like reading decks with pipped cards so once Tarot has been mastered it is quite simple to read playing cards Perhaps though it can leave more to the imagination and intuition as lookiing at a card with just 6 hearts or 3 spades means that the seeker may not have a clue as to the meaning lol

Ombra do you use a special playing card deck or just any one? With my Tarot I have several decks that no-one is allowed to use but with playing cards I just use what we are playing with and it makes a nice break from poker lol!

lol I have always had just a regular 52 card deck, I find it easier to interpret the symbolism and find that it's more open to interpretation, leaving more room for your intuition to kick in. I have a deck that I meditate over and periodically cleanse and it is strictly for readings. The imagery on Tarot cards I think leaves too strong an impression for me, kind of like being too definite if that makes any sense. I find it really funny though (even alittle annoying) because every single time I draw out an answer spread for myself the answer is a Joker...basically a wild card with no straight answer. How is that for irony huh...lol