5 Alternative Uses for Tarot

For the average non-tarot card user the term 'Tarot Cards' will probably conjure up thoughts of black magic and witchcraft, or charlatans. It can get a bad rap, but what many will not realise is that there are many uses for Tarot cards you might not have expected.

No Place for Nice-washed, Cute or Fluffy Tarot?

Do you like 'nice-washed' tarot decks or oracle cards?  It's a bit of a controversial subject in the Tarot community. Don't know what 'nice-washed' tarot means, and what the conversation is about? Well read on here...

5 Ways To Learn Tarot Cards

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Learning tarot can seem daunting if you consider there are usually 78 cards in the deck, all with different meanings (and layers of meaning..). Here are 5 different ways that might help you get started...

Finding out the contents of something with Kipper card divination!

I'm always on the look out for new ways to practice my cartomancy. I recently came across a really fun way to find out what's inside something....

Business Tarot Card Spread

There are a wide variety of tarot spreads out there to suit a range of different situations, but I've found that there are not many spreads for business situations, at least not suited to a reading I needed to do recently. So I put together my own based on other spreads I've come across so far.

When Tarot Cards are Wrong...

As someone who is learning Tarot the question of whether Tarot cards can ever be wrong is bound to come up. I recently did a reading which did not appear to be correct. After much thought, discussion with friends I've arrived at a number of possibilities for why this might happen....

Discovering and using the Celtic Cross Tarot Spread

The Celtic Cross is probably one of the most well known and used tarot card spreads. The spread is attributed to A.E. Waite from his 'The Pictoral Key to the Tarot' (1911), however there is a theory by author Marcus Katz, put forward in an edition of the Tarosophist Magazine, that the spread has earlier origins and is not Celtic. Whatever its origins it is very popular and one you are bound to come across when exploring Tarot. So what is the order of layout and position meanings in the spread?