Tarot: Yes and No Questions.

Added by Pam Richards at 12:43 on 27 June 2024

Can they be asked? A lot of what we ask is based on a yes or no reply when it comes to tarot. Many tarot readers will shout, ‘You can’t do yes or no readings; tarot is not meant for that', and such. Yet, it is very possible to do yes-or-no readings. While with other Mystical Blurb bl...

Third Party Readings: Asking About Others.

Added by Pam Richards at 16:49 on 16 April 2024

What is a third-party reading? It is when we ask about another person without their knowledge or consent. A lot of people dislike third-party readings, which are seen as an invasion of privacy. They are often the bulk of most readers’ work. People naturally want to know about other people; it...

Tarot: Creating Questions.

Added by Pam Richards at 19:23 on 06 October 2023

The foundation of a clear reading is a clear question. Where a question is no question, or a generic one, or the question is double-barrelled, or aiming at a yes or a no, then it can leave the reader confused, as the answer lacks clarity. A generic question is one where the question is along the li...

Tarot & Timing

Added by Pam Richards at 16:52 on 26 September 2023

Timing can be hard with tarot, as while there are methods people use, I've never found any that work other than to ask my question within a time frame and understand the time-based placements within a spread (Near Future, etc.). Even within a time-based question, nothing can be guaranteed, but i...

Shadow Work and Tarot

Added by Pam Richards at 18:16 on 07 September 2023

The term ‘Shadow Work’ is Jungian, coined by Carl Jung in relation to a form of psychotherapy that focused on the ‘Shadow Self’. The Shadow Self is a term for the hidden aspect of our minds, the subconscious. Those parts of ourselves that are hidden from our conscious selves...

Three of Cups & Infidelity?

Added by Pam Richards at 15:45 on 12 August 2023

Three of Cups .. a third person? I see a lot of people stating that the Three of Cups represents a third person within a relationship. Yet the card is about happiness and friendship. The symbolism says all that is needed about it. Three people, all united in sharing a single experience. If we look a...

Do you interview your new tarot decks?

Added by Pam Richards at 15:22 on 08 August 2023

Do you interview your new tarot decks? While it is not something I've ever done myself, you see many new students doing so. It is all well and good, unless you do not have enough tarot knowledge to work out what the reading is telling you. Then it adds confusion, as it can be blamed on the poor,...

What are Tarot Clarifier Cards

Added by Pam Richards at 14:44 on 06 April 2023

What is a Clarifying Card? Traditionally, a clarifying card, or "clarifier," was used to help clarify an entire spread. A single card was added to add definition where the reader needed an extra piece of information or confirmation on the cards laid. It would have no position assigned to it as with...

The Card at the Bottom of the Tarot Deck.

Added by Pam Richards at 16:53 on 04 April 2023

Many readers who read the tarot card at the bottom of the deck once shuffling has been completed do so with the presumption that we all use one and that we know what it means to them. Which can confuse a lot of new tarot students. Yet, the use of the bottom card can have many meanings to those who d...

The Courts. Pages, Knights, Kings and Queens

Added by Pam Richards at 16:10 on 22 March 2023

The nature of the Courts can confuse a lot of new and not-so-new tarot students. When we look at the Court cards, the tarot's royal households, the Pages, Knights, Queens, and Kings, they do not seem to fit in with the flow of the story from the Ace to the Ten within their suit at first glance. ...

The Six of Cups – The 3 Characters

Added by Pam Richards at 21:11 on 15 March 2023

We find three characters in the Six of Cups, and all three are frequently confused with things other than what they are. You can read more in detail in my book Understanding Tarot which goes into detail with the card’s symbolism. Beginning with the man walking away from the couple in the front...

Counterfeit Tarot Decks - How to Spot Them

Added by Pam Richards at 15:23 on 08 March 2023

Let’s talk about fake tarot decks. Counterfeit tarot decks are a plague on the tarot world. They can be found most places that sell tarot decks, such as Amazon, eBay, even your local shops, and the obvious places such as Wish, AliExpress, etc. What is a fake deck? A counterfeited tarot deck is...

Stalker Cards. What are they and 5 Solutions

Added by Pam Richards at 13:55 on 09 January 2023

Stalker cards—you may have heard the phrase or know what they are as you are being followed by one—whatever spread you do, there it is, staring at you, haunting you, and making you want to poke it with a stick to find out why or to just get it to leave you alone. I mean, how rude—j...

Channelling. Some Que and Ans.

Added by Pam Richards at 16:07 on 11 November 2022

Recently a member of my Facebook group Understanding Tarot started a top on the issue of Channelling. I’ve popped my reply here to hopefully help others. The following questions where posed. 1 - What is channelling, and do we do it all the time? Channeling is the pouring of information into t...

The Queens Cup

Added by Pam Richards at 12:19 on 10 November 2022

She gazes at her cup lovingly, as if it holds all her dreams and hopes, some would say also with a slightely pensive look. On both sides are angels, and I must admit to wondering why there were two can openers on her cup when I first saw it, but they are clear in some versions of the deck, not so mu...