If your Tarot reading is mostly reversed cards, then you know you’re dealing with yourself and any required actions or changes need to happen within you first. Reversed Tarot cards can often point to an imbalance in energy. That is, there is too much or too little of the energy. Take the Queen of Wands, for example.
Another popular query is “What does it mean when tarot card is reversed?”.
One source argued that reversed, it can instead mean that the querent is too wrapped up in the past , and maybe finds it difficult to be in the present. While the basic meaning behind this card is the same, the reversed tarot card here is helpful in indicating that one can take it too far, and it is usually detrimental to the situation.
What does a reversed tarot card mean?
Reversed tarot cards are tarot cards that will present themselves jumping out of your tarot deck in the opposite position, giving the card a different meaning and interpretation as to when it would come out in the regular upright position.
You may be thinking “Can tarot cards be reversed?”
The most common interpretation that your mind may go to is the simplest one. All Tarot cards have keywords that help to describe their meanings, so you may consider that the reversed meaning of the card could also be simply opposite to its upright meaning .
However, a reversal can be so much more than that . Tarot cards represent energy and situations in your life. No matter who you are or what you’re going through, there are going to be easy and challenging aspects of any situation. This can actually be mirrored in the tarot.
That is, the energy of that Tarot card is expressed outwardly into the world and is experienced in your external environment and in your relationships with people and situations. On the other hand, reversed Tarot cards are internally expressed energy .
Next, you need to get some reversed cards into your Tarot deck . My favourite method is to cut the deck into three piles. Turn one pile from top to toe, 180 degrees, so that those upright cards will become reversed cards, and vice versa.
What does it mean when a tarot card is upside down?
If a Tarot card appears in the reversed position , look at the imagery of that upside-down card and see what comes to you intuitively. For example, in the Ten of Swords reversed, it appears as if the swords are falling out of the man’s back.
When the deck is shuffled, some of the cards will be faced upright, while others will be faced down — or reversed. So, what does it mean the majority of Tarot cards are reversed during a reading?