Learn tarot
Enough to read for yourself properly, written plainly. No prerequisites and no mystique.
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Major and minor arcana: what the difference is for
Twenty-two cards everybody recognises and fifty-six nobody can name. Here is why the split matters when you are actually reading.
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The four suits, and what each one is about
Fifty-six of the seventy-eight cards are minor arcana, split across four suits. Learn what the suits are about and you can read most of the deck before you have memorised a single card.
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What reversed cards actually mean
The most over-dramatised part of tarot, and the easiest to get right once you stop treating a reversal as bad news.
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How to read a three card spread
Three cards is the spread most people learn first and the one most readers keep using. Here is how to get something useful out of it rather than three disconnected fortune cookies.