that you should understand about tarot cards. There are 22 major arcane and 56 minor arcane, for a total of 78 cards. The major arcane cards are meant to show life journey.
The minor arcane cards look more like the regular playing cards, with suits, such as wands, cups, pentacles and swords. Each card has a different meaning, and the meanings together tell a sort of story. It is this story that winds up being what is known as the tarot reading.
In most readings, you will sit down with a reader. You will then be asked to shuffle the cards. There are a variety of ways that this occurs. Sometimes you do a normal card shuffle, as you would a regular deck. Other times you are asked to drop the cards and just pick out a few.
The reader will then take the specific cards that you have chosen and will lay them out in a format. There are a variety of formats to choose from, each one representing a different thing.
3) But it does not really work, right?
Wrong. If you go to a tarot reader who has had practice, and enjoys doing what they are doing, than you will likely get an extremely accurate reading.
You will probably be asked if you would like to ask a question before the reader interprets the cards. Some people choose to ask a question, and others do not. Do not get upset if your question does not get answered.
Often, the cards reveal what you NEED to hear, not what you want to hear. Just like any other fortune-telling phenomenon, the results you get from a tarot reading may scare you.
So how do they work? That is a question that has yet to be completely answered, and is also one that leads us back to our original