reading tarot cards
There are many Tarot methods but the basics are easy to learn like any art or science, it just takes practice and a strong desire to learn.
Techniques on reading tarot cards for beginners and card meanings you can find in this website but you also need a number of books for more information about various Tarot methods and areas of study. In common standard Tarot decks consists of 78 cards.
You can also burn candles during your readings. With the questions you're asking or the mood you're seeking you may choose a color or fragrance that is reflective with it. Blue candles are for healing, patience, peace and happiness, the purple ones help for visualization and dreaming and the green candles are for prosperity and growth or black to absorb negativity.
If you are beginner and just starting reading tarot cards or have never worked with the tarot, we suggest you start with the Waite-Rider deck as it's the easiest deck to work with. There are three main uses of Tarot . The first is straight divination , the second is spell work and the third is working the Tree of life. As the Tarot are magical tools you have to key it which means that each person must personalize these magical tools for his own use. When you are keying the Tarot you are changing or re-arranging them and as the cards are actually linked to physical things in the Universe you also change or re-arrange things in the physical Universe.
The results of working with keyed Tarot are more accurate than with unkeyed ones. There are many different and various kinds of tarot card spreads but the most effective and easy to use are Celtic Cross and 12 Card. The Celtic Cross is a type of Tarot reading that gives you a character sketch or personality profile of the person you are reading. For example if the first card drawn in the Celtic Cross spread, placed in the center of the cross, it represents the seeker which is the person who is the subject of the reading, namely the person receiving the reading.
This card gives insight into certain attributes of the seeker, especially those related to the topic of the spread and the final card in the Celtic cross spread, usually the tenth card, represents the outcome or answer to the seeker's question. But Celtic Cross usually offers a personality of profile and it's a still picture snapshot of a person while the 12 Card layout uses for reading people, situations, businesses, financial issues, relationships and other situations involving multiple people and moves picture that shows past, present and future.
The 12 Card layout is very flexible and you can use multiple-card signifiers to capture complex situations and also you can use the reading to predict the outcome of situations, from personal life situations to global ones. If you want to become a true user of Tarot one of the best and most personal ways to develop meanings for the cards is to actually study the cards themselves. Information about each card meaning you can find in article "Meaning of each Tarot".