lilpeanut
Wow, I know this is going to start a red hot debate! I learned to read my cards with them all upright and to intuitively know which ones meanings were to be reversed. I have always had very accurate readings this way and then I decided to "mess" up my deck as suggested and try readings this way. With true reversals. How on earth is it possible to think that the same card coming up over and over upside down would apply to everyone? This is not accurate. All you are doing is messing up the deck. Numerically the number of reversed and non reversed will pretty much stay the same and always will be. Even if you flip the whole deck around the other half will be reversed and what if one of those weren't meant to be in your reading? I guess what I am getting at is how reversing the card physically can make a difference in a reading. I think it hinders it and will give a false reading.
In my opinion the deck should all be one direction then intuitively you know which card doesn't fit right and the meaning is to go the other way.
For example you are doing a reading on the outcome of a relationship, and all along you see heartbreak and that it is not going good and then at the end it shows 3/cups. Well of course that one means it should be taken as the opposite meaning. That it won't work out. Not a celebration or happy ending. I guess where I learned this was a book called "The Tarot Handbook" by Hajo Banzhaf. It is a fabulous book, but does not use reversals but positive and negative meanings of cards.
I wanted to know what you all thought of this and your opinions.
Lil Peanut
In my opinion the deck should all be one direction then intuitively you know which card doesn't fit right and the meaning is to go the other way.
For example you are doing a reading on the outcome of a relationship, and all along you see heartbreak and that it is not going good and then at the end it shows 3/cups. Well of course that one means it should be taken as the opposite meaning. That it won't work out. Not a celebration or happy ending. I guess where I learned this was a book called "The Tarot Handbook" by Hajo Banzhaf. It is a fabulous book, but does not use reversals but positive and negative meanings of cards.
I wanted to know what you all thought of this and your opinions.
Lil Peanut