Request for links on Tarot

I sat for a brief reading at a craft fair this weekend. It was a very good reading (kick up my heels and kiss my husband kind of good), and I'd like to do more research about the cards and their meanings. I have a diagram of the cards and the layout (15 cards).

I don't have the money to buy any books right now: can you recommend a good website?

Thanks!

Hope you find what you seek!

A good place for reviews of decks and interesting spreads:

http://tarotpassages.com/



A pretty good resource for some interesting interpretations of the cards. Not too far off the traditional interpretations, but different enough to make it worth a look:

http://www.ata-tarot.com/resource/cards/


n excellent site that might be a good place to begin because it explains WHAT those four suits and those other funny cards (called the Major Arcana) mean:

http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/basics/

My suggestion if you want to learn to read would be to find a deck that attracts you and buy a plain notebook. Look at the pictures on the cards and then read the "meaning" attributed to that card. Write down what you think is important THEN sit and look at the card for a while and write down anything that comes to you while you look at that card.

Does anything "jump" out at you? Does anything carry a meaning for YOU that is special? Write THAT stuff down too...

You now have your own Tarot book and it is YOURS.

Spread choices vary depending on what you want to accomplish. I use a couple of different spreads most of the time and a few others for special types of readings. mostly, I think it needs to be what YOU are comfortable with.

I don't deal with all the superstitions about keeping your deck wrapped in silk or in a mystic box or on an altar. I keep my in my bedside table, and I sleep with it inside my pillowcase every so often. I can't explain why, really, except it feels right to me.

YMMV.

I'm waiting to see what the other Tarot people on here have to say--I'm always looking to learn more and i've been reading Tarot for almost thirty years!



Laura

I don't deal with all the superstitions about keeping your deck wrapped in silk or in a mystic box or on an altar. I keep my in my bedside table, and I sleep with it inside my pillowcase every so often. I can't explain why, really, except it feels right to me.


except for the part about wrapping it in silk, I could have written that.

Of course, I believe dreamcatchers work too, if they are made true.

Interesting stuff. I especially like your advice. Thanks.

It's good if you can get to it--free readings if your browser supports it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=245x4786

I highly recommend it.

I decided to use the tarot reading part of the site. It was eerily accurate. Very strange indeed.
I couldn't figure out how to use the I Ching part.