Hey, this is YQ from YQmagic, and I'm here today to tell you how to get started with learning Tarot. So this is part of my tarot snacks, bite-sized tarot lessons to help you get started with learning tarot. And the number one tip I have for you if you wanna get started learning tarot is to get a physical tarot deck.
Yes. You want a deck in your hand so that you can. Start feeling it so that you can start looking at the pictures to kind of really, really see what's happening. Because, um, seeing the cards versus looking at them on a screen is very different. And when you have the cards itself in your hands, you can stare at it really, really close and see some details that you might miss out if it's purely on a screen.
I know that learning from the internet is great. I, I recommend it. Super, super great. But if you do wanna. Be more serious about learning tarot do get tarot decks. And um, I do wanna caution you a bit because there are some tarot decks that are about like $5 or less than $10. Those [00:01:00] out there, and when they come, they come in like plain cards.
Um, they come in like playing card size. The card stock is not great. And then also the box is kind of like a flippy, plain, playing card kind of box. You will not get those decks if you got those decks. Take a pen and jot down your notes on it because those are pirated decks. Those are fake decks and you do not wanna use, you can still use them of course.
You know, it's not like they are not gonna be accurate. Cuz some people ask me, you know, are they gonna be accurate? They are still gonna be, but because it is like intellectual property that has been stolen, it's not that great. The karma, the juju there is not great. And, uh, you might be asking why you, which tarot cards should I start with?
Because there are so many tarot decks out there and you see some, you're just like, oh my gosh, it's so great, I wanna buy it. And when you have it in your hands, you're like, I don't get it. So what I recommend and what I teach with is, um, Um, the right of wait. Smith Tarot deck. So my favorite is the Smith Wait [00:02:00] Centennial edition, which has some sort of like a vintage filter on it.
Kind of like the old Instagram filters. I know nobody uses filters like that in on Instagram anymore, so, uh, that's a reference. I just, 10 years ago, so right of wait. Smith Deck. The reason why I recommend it is because a lot of the explanations on the internet are for the right of wait Smith, which also means that when you're learning, you wanna double check, you wanna reference, it's so much easier for you to get it from there.
Um, there are also other types of tarot decks. So for example, there's the Mae and then there's the, I forgot, what is that weird guy's name. I forgot. It's very important. Someone might scream at me. What? It was quickly jumping in. Here it is the Toth deck. Anyway, the right of way Smith is what I recommend because there are a lot of.
Explanation on the internet. So right away Smith is one of it. Some people really hate it cuz they really hate how, um, everyone looks so ancient. Everyone looks so, [00:03:00] um, like from medieval times and they don't like it. I, another deck that I like would be the modern witch tarot. Uh, I don't know whether they have anything that is less chunky.
When I bought it, it was super chunky. I bought a limited edition, so it's like old foil. You don't have to use a limited edition. I love this because the pictures have been updated to be more modern and throughout the deck. Most of them are like, uh, they look female. They might not identify as female, the people inside.
But, uh, they, it's, um, I would say a all women deck. Uh, if I can say that, if, you know, if I wanna, you know, label a gender on it. Uh, the reason I like it, I mentioned just now, and, but the only thing I don't like it is that it's so big. It's very, very hard to shuffle. Even for myself, it's so hard to shuffle, but it's a day I really like because of the, how the images appear.
And then of course some other people like. All sorts of different tarot decks. What I would recommend you is that before you buy, you can buy a [00:04:00] right of wait Smith, you know, find one that might be know $20 $30. Use that one, and then you can buy a separate one, which is more different from right of weight, so that you can learn the right of weight first, or even put them together so you can see what's the difference between the right of way and the deck that you like.
And before you buy a date, what I want you to do also is to maybe Google some of the images. Just put the name of the tarot deck in Google and then like your images or reviews and people will tell you whether they like it or not. And, uh, one other thing about um, buying a tarot deck, getting started with a tarot deck is that do not buy a deck where the minor arcana are just, um, no, this is like, I need to censor it, uh, cuz I'm recording a video as well.
The minor arcana are the 56 tarot cards in the deck. And then some of it appears like playing cards, you know, just like five hearts, five spades. You don't wanna buy a deck like that because you cannot know, you don't remember what the meanings are. I know someone who said, you know, I'm gonna [00:05:00] buy it and then I'm not gonna be distracted by other images and I'm gonna, you know, memorize it.
But I don't recommend that because it's very hard to memorize before I even know the meaning. So get one where the images can tell a story. So that is like the most important part of getting a tarot deck. So yes, if you wanna get star learning tarrell, get a date. Number two is just I would recommend, right, if you are getting a teacher to just learn everything in one shot, because there are a lot of tar cards that seem the same.
And if you learn, you know, the previous week you learn about this card and you realize, oh my gosh. The card is the same meaning, you know, um, if you learn it in one shot, at least you get to know what the difference are because some of the cards are very similar, but they have like different dimensions to it.
So if you wanna, I teach like within a day, so when I teach tarot we. Run through all the meanings and if there's anything worth mentioning or mentioning it there as well. If you're learning [00:06:00] tarot, uh, I would recommend you not to look at the little white book that comes with the deck.
So if you're buying a deck, it can come with a little white booklet where it has all the keywords of the cards. I don't recommend learning from there because a lot of keywords would be similar once I was running like a free session of like, you know, uh, for people learn tarot and then I. Silly Lee stupidly released like keywords for the cards, and then people were just tripping over themselves asking Why does this card have the same keywords as that card?
But because there wasn't anyone there to explain what the difference is, it was hard for them to really learn what the cards are. And you can get started learning tarot by practicing, practicing, practicing, and knowing that you don't have to get it right at the first start. You don't, there's no pressure for you to be like Nostradamus.
As soon as you pick up your cards, you can pick up a card, look at it, then double check what the card means. Because one thing is also that you don't wanna pull a card [00:07:00] and immediately go to the book to try and see what the meeting is, because question that was asked can. Be a bit different from what the keywords are providing.
So you just wanna see the card first, explain what you see in the cards, any complies situation very, very well. Then you go to the book. So that is my recommendation. Another tip for getting salary tarot is do not use a big, big tarot spread. Do not start. Reading a Celtic Cross with 10 cards and you get confused because it will just demonetize you.
So what you wanna do is just pull one card for one question. If you need explanations, you pull one card again and one card again, and you explain it as you go along because you will be less tripped up. Over the cards, and then you will be a lot more confident that way. And my last tip would be to practice by reading for yourself.
The thing is that some people like to pull like a card of the day and sometimes it doesn't really fit, you know, the the day that you went through. So what I recommend if you're reading for your yourself, is to actually have a question and read for [00:08:00] it, because then it's more applicable versus like what's gonna happen throughout the day.
And then one card cannot really fit. All of it. So that's it for me today, and if you have any questions, if you would like me to cover more tarot snacks, let me know. Send me an email [email protected] and.
