Beginning a Reading - for beginners

Beginning a Reading - for beginners

When you are reading for yourself or for a friend, sit comfortably and lay out the cards on a clean, protected surface. As you consciously make space for the cards, you are creating a psychological space for yourself and anyone you are reading for.

Take the cards and shuffle them. If reading for a friend, you can ask them to shuffle the cards. the shuffling is important because you need to think of your question as you do this, Allowing events and emotions to surface. you may find that you conciously or unconciously turn cards upside down. if you are a baginner, you may prefer to turn them upright, but as you feel increasingly confident with your readings you can leave the cards in the reversed positions and refer to the reversed interpretations. Shuffle until you feel you are ready to stop, then cut the deck twice with your left hand, making three piles, Place the last cut on top of the remaining pile, Deal the cards from the top of the pile, Face down. For the simpler spreads, some readers prefer to spread the cards in a fan shape, and select the cards individually, While some prefer to ask the person they are reading for to do this. Choose whichever method you feel is intuitively right for you.

you are now ready to lay a spread, or arrangement of cards, ready for a reading.

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Naomi Gibbons