Reversals Experiment

Two of Cups from the Revelations Tarot

Since I began reading Tarot, I’ve always read reversals. I think this was mostly due in part to my first deck being the Revelations Tarot, which have 2 pictures on each card – one for upright and another picture that was flipped to be seen reversed. Using this deck, it didn’t make sense not to read reversals since that was a clear intent of the artist/creator. (Other readers have had issues wrapping their mind around this deck. As a newb, I gave Wong’s method a try without worrying about “traditional reversal meanings” for better or worse).

I’d heard of others not using reversals but when I read Mary K. Greer’s beloved “Tarot for Your Self” she backed up the reading of reversals; (bad paraphrase:) if the position of a card in a spread means something, then why not the position in which the card lands? MKG also wrote the book on Tarot Reversals (literaly).

As I’ve begun to involve myself in the wider Tarot community, I find that reading reversals is not very trendy at all. Since I’ve never been able to ignore reversals, and the fact that there seems to be something about it that everyone loves (easier to read? ) I’d like to go a time without reading reversals. The belief behind this is that there are enough “negative” and “positive” cards to balance the deck – why overdo the often negative aspect of reversals into a reading?

The experiment begins as of this post. Time to go flip all my decks right-side up!

Also, Arwen’s running a contest on her blog – go comment to win a free reading with the creator of the new Quantum Tarot deck!