Using Playing Cards As Tarot Cards (The Truth)

If you’re into spirituality and are looking to commune with the dead, you may be looking into tarot reading. You do not need to visit a professional tarot reader if you learn how to read the cards yourself and are willing to deal with the heebie jeebieness of summoning spirits yourself.

So you’re looking to dabble in tarot reading? If buying a full out tarot set is out of budget or hard to attain, why not use playing cards instead?

Can you use playing cards to read tarot? Will playing cards work as well as tarot cards and how should you go about using playing cards as tarot cards?

It’s not as easy, it takes more cards per reading and it’s often not as clear. However it does allow you to be flexible and establish your own methods and language of communication with the spirits.

In general, I’d say get yourself Tarot cards. Cardomancy (the act of using playing cards as Tarot cards) is a thing but there’s a reason Tarot cards haven’t changed in years. They’re designed to cover the range of human emotion and intent.

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You have to make sure you’re fluent in how to read the cards but it can be a lot simpler than acquiring a hard to come by set of tarot cards. It also allows you to try out tarot reading and find out if it’s for you. There’s a quick guide; hearts represent cups, spades are swords, diamonds translate to pentacles, coins, or discs, and clubs represent wands, rods, batons, or staves.

But how do you interpret the numbers on the cards, is it a reliable method of a tarot reading?

The best way to make spirits feel at ease with you and how to make sure you’re getting an accurate reading. It’s also important to realise that not all spirits are helpful and kind. Some may just be messing with you. Sometimes you’re dealing with an interloper, a spirit that is pretending to be your regular spirits and is only tricking you.

Your best way to convey the message of the cards is to consider each card an equivalent to a Tarot card.

• Ace: Beginnings (aces are always positive and always represent the new)
• Two: Balance (or delays, waiting)
• Three: Connection (or division, mixed-up communication, plans gone awry)
• Four: Stability (feeling stuck)
• Five: Disturbance (or challenges that can lead to expansion)
• Six: Harmony (or the lack of or yearning for it, but sixes are rarely negative)
• Seven: Mystery (or being overly concerned with superficialities)
• Eight: Movement (or lack of movement, stagnation)
• Nine: Growth (or satiety)
• Ten: Completion (or new beginnings, or new endings, too)

Then you just draw a deck of playing cards as you normally would draw Tarot cards.