Comments on: Reversals and Win a Tarot of the Sweet Twilight

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:43:57 +0000

I’m a beginner so I don’t know how i feel just yet on reversals. like another said earlier, i do believe that they shouldn’t just be written off.

By: Catia

Catia — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:20:37 +0000

According to a friend (Genora), ” a reversal can mean a great difficulty calling urgently to be addressed or something that is easily handled. Reversals have to be considered carefully and sometimes delved into by pulling additional cards.”

By: Katherine Nobles

Katherine Nobles — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:03:54 +0000

Although I do not deliberately use reversals, at times, one will simply show up in a reading. Whether by accident, my bad shuffling, whatever. When it does, I take note, and analyze carefully. There is a reason for all things, and obviously, Spirit wants me to take note.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:40:33 +0000

I definitely read reversals. Instead of opposites, these cards often for me mean internal rather than external situations.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:00:04 +0000

Well in my case I have , only because it has been years since I have used my deck. But my all time goal is to not to. To trust my inner voice.

By: Omar Ramirez

Omar Ramirez — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:36:52 +0000

I use reversals, because as you told there are several cards that would not be able to reflect the very same Idea of the reversal card. How do I use them? O don’t try reversals as the opposite of the straight card. Instead I try the reversal as a blockage of the straight result, but most often it appears as slow energy for the manifestation, like it is something weak. In case of the future it means it could take longer than expected, in case of the present ot could mean something not so meaningful. About the past, the reversal could mean something of little consequences today.

By: Schinji

Schinji — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:34:39 +0000

Whenever I’ve done readings, I’ve pretty much always used reversals–though it has definitely made for a steeper learning curve to try and keep track of the meanings.

As I fully respect tarot as a tool for higher understandings, it is still only a tool, and the worker is the person who must both bring enough insight and connection to the higher realms going on bear on the reading and potential uses of that tool. Tarot, like so many card games, cannot simply be used as a story-engine (though, if you’re a fiction writer…). As practitioners of tarot, our higher purpose should be to see through the stories and get to the kernels of insight–and by using those cards to guide us–and not be conditioned too strongly by them.

In that sense, using reversals seems like a take-it-or-leave it particularity to the reader. Specifically in my use, I’ve felt that the reversals can go two ways.

A) A reversal represents the negative aspect of the card revealed.

B) More usefully, it is the blockage of that same energetic concept of the card.

The upshot of which, in my readings, and depending on what feels most appropriate, those cards, reversed or no, represent the current situation being viewed. If certain cards’ energy can be reversed, that may end up flipping the card in a more desirable fashion. Especially when a fair number of reversals show up, one card then can become a lynchpin or locus for a cascade of changed events, a center for awareness and change, and then allow for those other cards to right (or reverse) themselves accordingly.

At least, that’s how I tend to go with it. Of course, the practitioner, still, is key in interpreting those insights.

Let me know if that helps.

By: Shelley Brown

Shelley Brown — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:45:40 +0000

I have vacillated between using reversals and ignoring them for a long time.At times I feel it’s appropriate and then at others, they just seem unimportant…no defining circumstances for the change…it just happens.The Tarot, being a tool upon which to focus the mind and inspire the intuition;in and of itself, does not define the reading… the reader does…therefore, when in the act of reading, it seems fitting to follow your intuition as to the use of either a reversed meaning or not… for each particular reading.That being said , it would probably be a good idea for beginning readers to form an understanding of what each card reversed says to them in order to have a basis upon which to decide to use a reversed meaning or not. In any case, the use or dismissal of reversed meanings in a reading should be at the intuitive descretion of the reader in my opinion.

By: Jo-Ann Moniz

Jo-Ann Moniz — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:47:01 +0000

Being a new student to the art of Tarot readings, I found this article to be very interesting. I hadn’t thought about whether or not to use reversals but now I can see that they would be a very important part of interpreting the entire reading. Thanks for giving me some new insight to my study,

By: Random Al Askendir Xtranj

Random Al Askendir Xtranj — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:45:13 +0000

I use and absolute DEPEND on reversals.
There is no other way I have found to identify a part of the reading that the querent is directly involved in that I might counsel him/her on what to do or change to ‘turn everything around’. (see my other Tarot comment).