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Before you start, one of the most important questions you can ask yourself is, "Why do I want to learn how to read and understand tarot cards?"
The answer to this question is very important because it will determine your choice of tarot card deck and how your readings, both for yourself and for other people.
The reasons for wanting to learn how to read tarot cards are as numerous as the people who pick up the cards. Perhaps you want to gain a deeper understanding of yourself so that you can use this information for your own personal growth and development. Maybe you want to understand other people and their motivations and actions, or use the cards in a coaching scenario to rapidly get to the bottom of limiting beliefs and blocks to success.
Perhaps you would like to develop your psychic abilities, so you can make better decisions in life and business with the gift of foresight, rather than looking back with hindsight! It may be that you have had readings from other people, which have been very helpful to you and you would like to develop your own intuition and creativity to solve problems and challenges in your life
Tarot cards can also be a great tool to explore your spirituality in more detail, going from some basic meditation to some much deeper fundamental life questions. Or maybe you are fascinated by the historical symbolism of the tarot cards or the more magical and esoteric realms of the Occult.
It may be that you have a passion for a particular time in history, or a certain culture or ideology or mythology or maybe that you are fascinated by a person and their work and those factors can also affect your choice of tarot card deck. Your choice of deck also depends on your experience as a tarot card reader and how far you have developed your psychic abilities because some decks are easier to work with as a beginner and some are more suited to more intuitive readings.
Once you know the reason why you would like to learn about tarot cards, then it is much easier to pick a tarot deck that you can easily work with. You can then avoid a lot of expense and frustration of choosing something that you can't work with.
Amanda Goldston
Tarot Author, Coach and Reader
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Amanda Goldston is the author of Develop Your Intuition Through Tarot Book, a speaker and Tarot Coach. She has been reading Tarot cards for over 16 years and has helped 1000s of people to make the best choices for themselves.
She now teaches others to read the cards for themselves for fun, profit and personal growth. For details of Tarot books and courses from Amanda Goldston, please visit her website at:
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