Dear AnneLien: Thanks very much for your kind words. In the beginning, I used to want some kind of sign that it was time to stop and lay the cards, but nowadays it's easier to just trust that the right cards will show themselves.
This was very helpful in answering my questions about shuffling and reversed cards. I also really appreciated the advice on how to protect and handle the cards. After watching this, I made a double sided cloth bag for my cards and put a brocade cloth in the bag as well to place the cards on to read.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.. your the only person i could find in over 10videos who actually SHOWS me how to shuffle cards taking into account that a new deck has ALL cards facing UPWARDS.. and so your method of TURNING is exactly what i needed to know.. A trillion thank yous, peace & keep up the good work!!
@AlexLionThe Yes, I used to wonder about that and worry a bit too, thinking I should reorganize everything. Now, I figure that the Tarot can take care of itself and that the next reading I do is going to be a logical follow-on from the last one. If there is harmony in life and the universe (I think there is) then the next reading is going to be in some kind of cooperation with the last one, so I do a quick shuffle, just to put a kind of full stop at the end of the sentence.
@TheStfu1000 We take dreams seriously and some teach that they show underlying truths that some part of the mind already knows and understands. Picking a card is not as ridiculous as it may seem. We can be accessing this part of the mind that KNOWS the truth for us and for all and for ever. Chu Hsi taught that divination is good for us since it gets us to know what is permissible or not in our behaviour and so teaches us to be good.
This guy is awesome in his teaching: however, with that ancient he sometimes loses me so I replay the video again to hear his methodology of learning tarot cards and doing spreads.
I need to get some silk. Or maybe I already have what I need. I have alot of fabric in storage. But I really like using this one square glass plate that I have with a pretty black and white damask pattern. I pretty much keep it there all the time and it is cleaned regularly. I deeply respect them. It is the third thing I reach for when I wake up in the morning: 1. glasses 2. smart phone 3. cards
very much wisdom from this vid well done. I mearly was searching for a way to shuffle the cards so that theres a chance for their to be reversed cards so that they can give the full extent of their answers. thank you for the information
I definitely enjoy shuffling my cards, at the moment I'm very clumsy, but I can't imagine reading without shuffling for a while. It gets me in the right mindset and I think it helps the deck and I talk for a bit before asking it for a favor. : )
Hello. Just watched your video about your new deck. Which is better - the Fool facing the left, or the Fool going in the direction of the volcano? I think there is a difference. So I think you should cut to the left with your left hand during the shuffling. At the same time, this is what I was taught and I follow the method, but I never really thought about it, so I'll have a think and email you if I get an answer. Can you give an example of a weird reading that you got?
Thanks. I know people say that the shuffle doesn't matter and that there is no right way, but if you try this method and examine the results, don't be surprised if you find you are doing better readings.
Good info the greatest results that i've had was with the Stefs Magic Numbers (just google it) - I found it the best natural method that I have ever followed.
Hello Sir, being italian I preferred to purchase an old glory and probably one of the very first and most complete card set: the Visconti-Yale. I still have to use it and I have doubts about the way to manage it, since I think it is different from the one You used in this video. Would You kindly give me some tips for mine and a good book for using the beautiful reissue I purchased? Thanks in advance and keep on uploading!
@john ballantrae do you have a booklet on the proper etiquette on the uses and maybe basic meanings of the card. I could use your help if you see this. I’m 27 my grandmother used to read my cards. This energy has been following me ever since I was a kid I’m now embracing this knowing.
confirmation needed: tarot is really good and interesting when it comes to just understanding issues and personal issues in general and personality even as each card has a star sign/carl jung representation. but let's be honest i don't see how just drawing cards at random as you would in poker can be used to divine a person's real life future/situation?
@johnballantrae001 Ok thankyou for your patience.I was shown in a video somewhere to arrange the cards into three piles of 13 and if i was to draw a correct facing ace in any pile then the answer would be yes.I drew an ace 1st pile on about the 5th card so the remaining 2 piles were left untouched. Thanks,hope this sheds some light.
I think your seven of wands describes the youtube video's relation to youtuber's comments showing that the video is at the top ruling the topic, where the wands at the bottom (watchers) might try to prove it wrong sometimes, but they can get in off-line so the video prevail. But thats just my guess.
Little question: when you finish the reading, you don't reorganize the cards, putting them in order? Or just let them in the order they are when the reading is done? I've always had that doubt... sorry about the stupid question. Great video!
I've been taught that you can at times lay the cards in order (sort of a cleansing ritual) and let them rest as that. But as long as you have respect, and communicate with your deck, you can't really go wrong. They do not judge you. Think of them as a big sister/brother. They might get a little harsh but they care. I hope this is still on topic for you 9 years later. :)
@rastan1977 Not much room to reply here. The method you used sounds quite artificial, but maybe it works. Never used it. I show a method in a youtube video. Shuffle; pick three cards. Turn them over. Upright means yes; reversed means no. Middle counts for 2 yes or 2 no, so you can get 2 upright and 2 reversed = maybe. Cards show how or why it will be yes or no. Will brother go to town? 4 cups rev = no, wants to think things through; Page swords rev = no, becaues feeling gnarly and hostile.
@rastan1977 If you want some feedback or help, tell us the question and the cards. I don't want to re-write history, so to speak, but there may be another way of looking at the cards that came up.Sometimes the question can mean more than one thing, for instance.
@johnballantrae001 No mate,it was a straight forward question that required 1 answer.I asked if my brother would want to go up town for the day and the cards said yes.I rang him and he said no. I can understand though how people get the answers they seek when you consider the considerable variations to anything that you ask. If read in a certain way you could convince yourself of anything.
Actually this all started because I was working with buddhist meditation vocally-in a cd and meditating to it. The positive was not working. I was still scared and felt that I was missing something. I went to a black mirror, which I had not Idea what it really was and then I went to tarot. I learnt about the black velvet pouch, put it in a wooden box in the dark? but this is good to know how to actually take care of them. I got into Reiki only because whenever I touched someone for long enough I absorbed their pain/black stuff and they felt GREAT! but I got the worst stomach pain ever after that. This is all still a mystery to me and is it even really worth it? Thanks for reading.
You sound like a male Mrs Doubtfire and that makes me very happy AND very sad all at once 😳😔 Just thinking about Robin Williams movies makes me teary, his movies were my childhood Maybe I’ll call him on the Ouija Board 🤙🏻
there is no right or wrong way with the tarot deck, unless you intentionally place cards. Shuffle the deck once or a thousand times. It's all in the cards and the interpreter/querent.
Maybe not right or wrong, but the method I show will put the reader and questioner in a good space and place to work with what the Tarot will show. You can do whatever you want, but some atmospheres are better than others - and this method produces a good one. In this sense, there is a right way.
***** Maybe it's not as simple as the individual's relation to the cards. You could always try the method and see where it leads, and then you would be speaking from actual experience, and not just from a perhaps randomly adopted position.
John Ballantrae fair enough. I'll give your "method" a try and let you know my thoughts. But, I don't believe in routine when shuffling my deck. In my opinion, the lay out should be as random as what the cards depict, which is infinity. I'm sure you understand my prior statement.
John Ballantrae your 'Celtic Cross' spread looked odd. Do as you please, but I always place my first and second cards as you did, but my third is the crown (top), then right, bottom, and left. And of course, the four cards to the left.
I still have a problem with reverse cards , I don't know why but in my head it's not good . Yet I know it might not mean a bad thing. And If I understand If I have a reversed card I can re-reverse it so the image is facing me . Because I am more comfortable with non reversed cards ?
What about black velvet and putting them in a dark place? Do you have to have silk in order to spread and work with them? I am a complete novice. Thanks.
@rastan1977 Fair enough. I don't want to harass you, but can you say what the cards were. It's sometimes a good idea to examine spreads that don't work out so we can read better in the future, though I take you point that it's just a wrong answer and that happens too sometimes. Something may come up that would be helpful or useful for others reading the comments.
@123guesswhosback This looks like you are complaining and would like something quicker, but I have to give details so the viewer get the best quality of information.
@johnballantrae001 i speak from without knowing exactly how to use tarot cards. but i was just getting at the random element. surely if you shuffle cards and draw cards then it's just a matter of chance. i agree that dreams obviously give you an insight of 'underlying truths' as dreams are formed by your real (subconcious) and concious thoughts. i'll look up Chu Hsi thanks. btw if you could do any tutorials on Angel Tarot cards (the deck i have) that would be great for me.
I was wondering, is it really okay to turn over the card from top-to-bottom? I know you said that either turning it from top-to-bottom or side-to-side is fine, but won't that result in inaccuracy if it's from top-to-bottom?
Wanna hear something weird.......so I pulled out my deck to shuffle right? I did what the video showed which was shuffle them 3 times.......Then a card at the bottom kinda caught my attention.....so I pause at 6:01 I’m kinda superstitious right so I’m like fuck it why did this card want my attention.......It’s the same exact card he’s holding at this moment in the same position.......I kinda did ask where my life was going in the next 3 months
Something similar happened to me. One of my card fell off my deck while I was shuffling it and it was the Ace of Sword. I started shuffling again, and a while later, that same card fell off my deck again. And a while before that happened, I was reading a guide on how to cleanse Tarot decks, and the autor mentionned that she lost her Ace of Sword card in the text.
Everybody has their own views and methods/rules-I dislike Most video's that lay down the law on anything. Read about twenty to thirty Tarot Books(i Own more than that) and you might disagree with some of these Tarot Video's. and their views.
Dear AnneLien:
Thanks very much for your kind words. In the beginning, I used to want some kind of sign that it was time to stop and lay the cards, but nowadays it's easier to just trust that the right cards will show themselves.
I love your respect for the tarot
This was very helpful in answering my questions about shuffling and reversed cards. I also really appreciated the advice on how to protect and handle the cards. After watching this, I made a double sided cloth bag for my cards and put a brocade cloth in the bag as well to place the cards on to read.
Loved the "meaning of life" interpretation. Thank you.
THANK YOU SO MUCH..
your the only person i could find in over 10videos who actually SHOWS me how to shuffle cards taking into account that a new deck has ALL cards facing UPWARDS.. and so your method of TURNING is exactly what i needed to know..
A trillion thank yous, peace & keep up the good work!!
@AlexLionThe Yes, I used to wonder about that and worry a bit too, thinking I should reorganize everything. Now, I figure that the Tarot can take care of itself and that the next reading I do is going to be a logical follow-on from the last one. If there is harmony in life and the universe (I think there is) then the next reading is going to be in some kind of cooperation with the last one, so I do a quick shuffle, just to put a kind of full stop at the end of the sentence.
Glad you enjoyed it.
I agree with you. It's just a matter of RESPECT. We are not playong poker in a casino!!! intuitive readings must display serenity and harmony💕
@TheStfu1000 We take dreams seriously and some teach that they show underlying truths that some part of the mind already knows and understands. Picking a card is not as ridiculous as it may seem. We can be accessing this part of the mind that KNOWS the truth for us and for all and for ever. Chu Hsi taught that divination is good for us since it gets us to know what is permissible or not in our behaviour and so teaches us to be good.
You have created a wonderful channel full of quality content. Thank you!
This guy is awesome in his teaching: however, with that ancient he sometimes loses me so I replay the video again to hear his methodology of learning tarot cards and doing spreads.
I need to get some silk. Or maybe I already have what I need. I have alot of fabric in storage.
But I really like using this one square glass plate that I have with a pretty black and white damask pattern. I pretty much keep it there all the time and it is cleaned regularly. I deeply respect them. It is the third thing I reach for when I wake up in the morning:
1. glasses
2. smart phone
3. cards
One of the most well done and informative videos I have seen. Thank you!
I'm so grateful of your teachings! thank you!
very much wisdom from this vid well done. I mearly was searching for a way to shuffle the cards so that theres a chance for their to be reversed cards so that they can give the full extent of their answers. thank you for the information
I definitely enjoy shuffling my cards, at the moment I'm very clumsy, but I can't imagine reading without shuffling for a while. It gets me in the right mindset and I think it helps the deck and I talk for a bit before asking it for a favor. : )
I've been so confused about how to shuffle lol. Your video helped a lot. Thanks!
very relaxing voice. thank you for the video.
Hello. Just watched your video about your new deck. Which is better - the Fool facing the left, or the Fool going in the direction of the volcano? I think there is a difference. So I think you should cut to the left with your left hand during the shuffling. At the same time, this is what I was taught and I follow the method, but I never really thought about it, so I'll have a think and email you if I get an answer. Can you give an example of a weird reading that you got?
@Newmoontarot Glad you enjoyed it.
Great Job!! I really enjoyed this very much
Thanks. I know people say that the shuffle doesn't matter and that there is no right way, but if you try this method and examine the results, don't be surprised if you find you are doing better readings.
Good info the greatest results that i've had was with the Stefs Magic Numbers (just google it) - I found it the best natural method that I have ever followed.
thank you for this demonstration a lot of beginner books barely get into this.
Thank you so much, Sir! I do appreciate your video guidances. Peace and happiness your way🙏🏽💜🙏🏽
Hello Sir, being italian I preferred to purchase an old glory and probably one of the very first and most complete card set: the Visconti-Yale.
I still have to use it and I have doubts about the way to manage it, since I think it is different from the one You used in this video.
Would You kindly give me some tips for mine and a good book for using the beautiful reissue I purchased?
Thanks in advance and keep on uploading!
this is really true! i've been searching these books to learn what he said in one video lol.
Thank you so much for your teachings.
Great job! Thanks.
Hey John, has there been any changes in your method since this video was recorded?
thank you for this video dear John! ;-)
Thanks John, I really liked this. It helped me a lot. My cards could not shuffle at all!
can you do a video of how to use reversed cards? I'm a beginner and I was told you don't have to use the reversed method. Please and thank you.
Thank you. What does it mean when the balance of the Two of Pentacles is upside down though?
Thanks John ! Good method !
awesome, we have the same deck....the Rider-Wite deck
Wonderful, thank you so much
Wow! I enjoyed this vid. Thank you so much.
You R so good, Thank you !!!
@john ballantrae do you have a booklet on the proper etiquette on the uses and maybe basic meanings of the card. I could use your help if you see this. I’m 27 my grandmother used to read my cards. This energy has been following me ever since I was a kid I’m now embracing this knowing.
confirmation needed: tarot is really good and interesting when it comes to just understanding issues and personal issues in general and personality even as each card has a star sign/carl jung representation. but let's be honest i don't see how just drawing cards at random as you would in poker can be used to divine a person's real life future/situation?
@johnballantrae001 Ok thankyou for your patience.I was shown in a video somewhere to arrange the cards into three piles of 13 and if i was to draw a correct facing ace in any pile then the answer would be yes.I drew an ace 1st pile on about the 5th card so the remaining 2 piles were left untouched.
Thanks,hope this sheds some light.
Thank you!
I think your seven of wands describes the youtube video's relation to youtuber's comments showing that the video is at the top ruling the topic, where the wands at the bottom (watchers) might try to prove it wrong sometimes, but they can get in off-line so the video prevail. But thats just my guess.
Little question: when you finish the reading, you don't reorganize the cards, putting them in order? Or just let them in the order they are when the reading is done? I've always had that doubt... sorry about the stupid question. Great video!
I've been taught that you can at times lay the cards in order (sort of a cleansing ritual) and let them rest as that. But as long as you have respect, and communicate with your deck, you can't really go wrong.
They do not judge you.
Think of them as a big sister/brother. They might get a little harsh but they care.
I hope this is still on topic for you 9 years later. :)
in the celtic cross does it matter in which order the 3rd 4th 5th and 6th cards a placed, coz i have seen so many different orders
@rastan1977 Not much room to reply here. The method you used sounds quite artificial, but maybe it works. Never used it. I show a method in a youtube video. Shuffle; pick three cards. Turn them over. Upright means yes; reversed means no. Middle counts for 2 yes or 2 no, so you can get 2 upright and 2 reversed = maybe. Cards show how or why it will be yes or no. Will brother go to town? 4 cups rev = no, wants to think things through; Page swords rev = no, becaues feeling gnarly and hostile.
@rastan1977 If you want some feedback or help, tell us the question and the cards. I don't want to re-write history, so to speak, but there may be another way of looking at the cards that came up.Sometimes the question can mean more than one thing, for instance.
Wow!sir,well done said.thank you for sharing.
@johnballantrae001 No mate,it was a straight forward question that required 1 answer.I asked if my brother would want to go up town for the day and the cards said yes.I rang him and he said no.
I can understand though how people get the answers they seek when you consider the considerable variations to anything that you ask.
If read in a certain way you could convince yourself of anything.
I love my tarot deck. It is very old, and wrapped always in slik, and in a box.
Actually this all started because I was working with buddhist meditation vocally-in a cd and meditating to it. The positive was not working. I was still scared and felt that I was missing something. I went to a black mirror, which I had not Idea what it really was and then I went to tarot. I learnt about the black velvet pouch, put it in a wooden box in the dark? but this is good to know how to actually take care of them. I got into Reiki only because whenever I touched someone for long enough I absorbed their pain/black stuff and they felt GREAT! but I got the worst stomach pain ever after that. This is all still a mystery to me and is it even really worth it? Thanks for reading.
Thank you! I love your channel!! 💞
You sound like a male Mrs Doubtfire and that makes me very happy AND very sad all at once 😳😔
Just thinking about Robin Williams movies makes me teary, his movies were my childhood
Maybe I’ll call him on the Ouija
Board 🤙🏻
Thanks u so much !
there is no right or wrong way with the tarot deck, unless you intentionally place cards. Shuffle the deck once or a thousand times. It's all in the cards and the interpreter/querent.
Maybe not right or wrong, but the method I show will put the reader and questioner in a good space and place to work with what the Tarot will show. You can do whatever you want, but some atmospheres are better than others - and this method produces a good one. In this sense, there is a right way.
John Ballantrae well, if it helps put faith in what you're doing, then yes, it is a "right way". It's all in the individual's relation to the cards.
*****
Maybe it's not as simple as the individual's relation to the cards. You could always try the method and see where it leads, and then you would be speaking from actual experience, and not just from a perhaps randomly adopted position.
John Ballantrae fair enough. I'll give your "method" a try and let you know my thoughts. But, I don't believe in routine when shuffling my deck. In my opinion, the lay out should be as random as what the cards depict, which is infinity. I'm sure you understand my prior statement.
John Ballantrae your 'Celtic Cross' spread looked odd. Do as you please, but I always place my first and second cards as you did, but my third is the crown (top), then right, bottom, and left. And of course, the four cards to the left.
I still have a problem with reverse cards , I don't know why but in my head it's not good . Yet I know it might not mean a bad thing. And If I understand If I have a reversed card I can re-reverse it so the image is facing me . Because I am more comfortable with non reversed cards ?
What about black velvet and putting them in a dark place? Do you have to have silk in order to spread and work with them? I am a complete novice. Thanks.
What would you say is the best way to draw a card in your opinion? For example, fanning them out, off the top, etc.
this is such a helpful video! thanks for posting it.
@rastan1977 Fair enough. I don't want to harass you, but can you say what the cards were. It's sometimes a good idea to examine spreads that don't work out so we can read better in the future, though I take you point that it's just a wrong answer and that happens too sometimes. Something may come up that would be helpful or useful for others reading the comments.
I treat mine very gently
Sir i wont b able to see how shufling is to be done second half is invisible it is not coming in camera
The best way is to study the cards and re-read their meanings over-and-over again. It's working well for me as yet.
@123guesswhosback This looks like you are complaining and would like something quicker, but I have to give details so the viewer get the best quality of information.
bang on...IN SYNCH WITH THE DIVINE PATTERN
Why silk? Why not cloth or a special box?
I would iron the cloth.
Thanks for the video!
@johnballantrae001 i speak from without knowing exactly how to use tarot cards. but i was just getting at the random element. surely if you shuffle cards and draw cards then it's just a matter of chance. i agree that dreams obviously give you an insight of 'underlying truths' as dreams are formed by your real (subconcious) and concious thoughts. i'll look up Chu Hsi thanks. btw if you could do any tutorials on Angel Tarot cards (the deck i have) that would be great for me.
thanks for the trips
Beautiful.
Very nice
Might That Be A Sexy Scottish Accent I Hear On Him? (lol)!
thank yoou
Why do we invert one pile? Does one have to follow that rule?
@GaelaMorgana Scottish, yes. Not so sure about sexy.
I was wondering, is it really okay to turn over the card from top-to-bottom? I know you said that either turning it from top-to-bottom or side-to-side is fine, but won't that result in inaccuracy if it's from top-to-bottom?
Hey John, can u read reversed tarot cards in either way even if it means "Dreaded?"
@AlexLionThe Any time.
Yes.
Amazing
Where can you buy tarot cards?i have seen them in books a million,but no where else.
Dear JAzlyn: Try US Games Systems dot com, or search for Tarot cards on amazon.com. The Rider Waite is the bet to begin wth.
Amazon any metaphysical store Barnes and noble probably ebay etc
Thank you.
I shuffled for a good 10 minutes and the cards gave me the wrong answer.Maybe they dont like being over shuffled.
are you a fire sign?
very understandable
Thank you for this :)
thank u
Lies -- agree with GaelaMorgana and especially love her name!
Thanks! :)
What is the name of this tarot cards
It is the original Rider Waite deck; sometimes called the Rider-Waite Smith deck after the person (Pamela Coleman Smith) who did the illustrations.
This John💋
good video, I subscribed :) thanks
Wanna hear something weird.......so I pulled out my deck to shuffle right?
I did what the video showed which was shuffle them 3 times.......Then a card at the bottom kinda caught my attention.....so I pause at 6:01
I’m kinda superstitious right so I’m like fuck it why did this card want my attention.......It’s the same exact card he’s holding at this moment in the same position.......I kinda did ask where my life was going in the next 3 months
Something similar happened to me. One of my card fell off my deck while I was shuffling it and it was the Ace of Sword. I started shuffling again, and a while later, that same card fell off my deck again. And a while before that happened, I was reading a guide on how to cleanse Tarot decks, and the autor mentionned that she lost her Ace of Sword card in the text.
God I always hated rx cards, still don't like using them, maybe I should start
🙏💖🌍💖🌌💖🙏
Dude, just shuffle it.
Everybody has their own views and methods/rules-I dislike Most video's that lay down the law on anything. Read about twenty to thirty Tarot Books(i Own more than that) and you might disagree with some of these Tarot Video's. and their views.
First off, I LOVE your videos. But I was curious as to why you shuffle three times. Can you do it more than that are is three the tarot limit?
thank u