Tarot 101: A Beginner’s Guide

If you think tarot reading is only for the gifted ones, you are definitely wrong. Anyone can read a tarot card, even you! All you have to do is trust yourself and say a big YES to your intuition.

To start off, here are the fundamentals that you need to know by heart if you want to learn tarot card reading.

What is a tarot deck?

The tarot deck is consists of 78 cards with different imagery, story, symbolism, and meaning. It has 22 major arcana cards which depict the karmic and spiritual lessons of life, and 56 minor arcana cards representing the hardships and tribulations that we experience every day.

Some may discourage and tell you that tarot cards are just ink on paper. But once you learn and understand the 78 cards, their meanings and purposes, you will agree that through personal tarot reading or even online tarot reading, you can see your life’s storybook and gain inner wisdom. 

All spiritual lessons we encounter in our lives can be seen in the cards of a tarot deck. Upon consultation of the tarot, you will then see the lessons that you need to learn and comprehend for you to live a peaceful and inspired life. Consulting the tarot is like looking through a mirror that makes you access the subconscious part of your mind and awakens the wisdom that lives within you.

Tarot is the perfect guide for self-development, achieving goals, making hard choices, planning a business, helping others, meditating, and many more. Before heading out, you can just ask a simple question, choose a card, and dive into the card’s imagery to give you an instant answer to your question and access to your inner wisdom.

How does the tarot deck work?

A tarot deck is a tool that you can use in accessing your intuition and internal wisdom so that you can use it in guiding your ideal future and manifest your goals. To help you get into that intuitive wisdom you have within you, below are the four easy and simple steps you that can follow.

Choose a tarot deck

You must select the right tarot card for you. As a beginner, do not use a complex version which will give you a hard time to study and understand. Instead, use the most uncomplicated and beginner-friendly versions like the decks of Everyday Tarot and Rider Waite.

Learn from video tutorials or tarot reading materials

There are several available materials online or in printed books that you can use to understand and read the tarot cards even without prior knowledge about it. Watch and read them while also studying the imagery in your chosen cards to absorb and retain their meanings.

Dive deeper into the cards’ meaning

Once you are familiar with the images and their interpretations, don’t stop there. Explore their ancestral definitions, symbolism, and even the numerological and elemental connections of the cards. Memorizing all of these are not needed, just learn the basics to get you started.

Try drawing a tarot card a day

As you start your day, ask yourself an easy question: “What do I need to know for today?” Draw a card and try to interpret what it means. As your day goes by, ponder on the card’s meaning and create an intimate and intuitive bond with the cards. Practice this every day, and you will eventually get the hang of using the tarot cards to access your intuition and listen to your inner wisdom.