Hi,  
I am interested in learning more about tarot reading and how to develop my abilities to go beyond the meaning of the tarot card itself.   I have recently purchased a deck of regular playing cards and have been trying to learn the meanings and increase my intuitive abilities.   I have had a stressful year and could use guidance,  I have been to a couple of tarot readers who use regular cards and they have given me some factual information however I don't know how to put the information they give me to use in my life so that it benefits me.   I would like to request a tarot reading and also would appreciate any insight that can be given.   Thank you.

I will get back to you later today DDmarie.

First of all, I have not seen many people in here who use regular playing cards. If there are any, they are welcome to come forward and give you the guidance that you need. This forum and its tutorials are based mainly on the Rider Waite deck.

I picked three cards for you by way of guidance for the next 3 -6 months. As you did not have a specific question, I asked what guidance was there for you for the foreseeable future. I hope they will make sense to you.
I am doing something that I have never done before. I was given a tarot deck of the Celtic Dragon tarot and I have picked, first, three cards from the Rider Waite and then picked the same cards from the Celtic Dragon deck. I will try and see their marriage in this small and random spread and try and assimilate their messages to you. I hope you don’t mind this method.

The cards I picked were:
Justice. The Hermit. Page of Cups.

Justice: Looking at both these Justice cards, one is a judge or a king sitting on a throne of stone holding a sword facing upwards with one hand and a balanced scale with the other. The other card shows  a white, winged dragon with a sceptre of some sort in one hand and a parchment in the other. A girl and a boy are on their way to the dragon, holding hands.
Justice: I feel the Rider Waite Justice is the cold, blunt sense of justice, holding everything in balance and not getting carried away with emotions. Justice usually has no feelings. We have to take the way it is served whether we like it or not. On the second card the dragon is almost on its knees, face almost touching the ground, anticipating his visitors to deliver them the verdict – Justice. Whilst this dragon does not show any emotions either, but I feel he is more eager to help to show the way to this couple who obviously need help.
Unless you don’t have any issues and involvement with the law, I will take these two cards as your current situation which needs to find some balance. Balance on the outside as well as on the inside – within. In order to attain that balance and, indeed, sense of balance, I’m afraid there will be things that should be handled with common sense rather than emotions. You may need to be tough on yourself and find your own sense of justice and balance your scales. If this is something that you cannot achieve through your own means and efforts, I believe there is help out there for you to reach out and receive. You need not be afraid to face that justice, that personal equilibrium in your life, even if that means being critical to yourself and your actions of the past.

The Hermit : The Rider Waite Hermit is an old man with standing on top of a snow-covered mountain, with a staff and a lantern for guidance to show the way ahead. This is a period of gaining knowledge about the self and also finding the way forward as a result of that knowledge. The Celtic Dragon Hermit depicts a dragon on the edge of a cliff reading a book whilst he is being watched by skeletons and other animals above on a rock.  He has another book which is closed which he is going to read or he has already read.
They are both seeking knowledge albeit in the solitude of their retreat and in that knowledge find some answers about themselves. Knowledge on practical matters,  like the dragon reading a book, and knowledge on the soul, like the old wise man being guided by his lantern. There are times only our own knowledge can give us the guidance that we need in order to move forward. Whether we are surrounded by people and not being, we can always retreat within and find out what we need to know.  But before that we need to want to know, we need to be honest with ourselves (Justice) in order to seek that knowledge and guidance to illuminate our path ahead. Sometimes we think we know it all by holding the lantern too high in front of our face and our vision is hampered with the brightness of the light and we don’t see one step ahead of us. By lowering the lantern slightly, we begin to see a little further ahead which we could not see before. The same scenario but slightly different applies to the dragon reading one book after another whilst skeletons hidden here and there, issues in the past and present, are still haunting him.

Page of Cups: a youngster in the Rider Waite offering a cup with a fish in it and a little girl on the Dragons offering a friendly dragon a white piece of cloth with the picture of a golden cup on it. Is she pulling it away from the dragon or is the latter giving it to her?
Pages are the youngster within us. They can also be people around us – adults with a younger energy – or even a messenger bringing us news about this and that. From both of these cards I get the feeling of a young, innocent energy, ready to grow and develop with feelings and emotions. The suit of Cups is all about our feelings and emotions whether they are to do with love and romance or our emotional attachments to other aspects in life .I get the feeling with these two cards, that you may have been neglecting the emotional side of you and possibly were being far too regimented in the area of those tender feelings. They do not necessarily have to do with love and romance, but possibly a detachment from feelings and expressions of affection towards people or situations. Yes, Pages are also the bearers of news of romance for all intents and purposes, but I do feel that you may have been more on the logical side than embracing affection.

The above three scenarios were given to me by the cards by way of guidance for you for the foreseeable future. I do hope they meant something to you and that you can relate to them.

All the best to you and lots of blessings to you.

I see you have been given a reading in the psychic forum. Sorry, my mistake; I should have checked.

Hi ddmarie,

Mmmm, you can learn as much as you want about Tarot. We have "learn Tarot" forum. You can also visit this link:



Blessed be.