Beginner Question On Tarot, upright cards Options

So I just baught my first deck "The Rider" and a book called "The tarot:History,Symbolism,and Divination" by Robert M. Place and I have a very simple and basic question: In order to get a proper reading do all the cards have to be pointed upright and if they do turn out to be downward then what do you do?

Yes the reversed or ill dignified cards are often harsher than the dignified and we don't want to know the whole truth in gory detail all the time.

On the other hand, a 'full' reading when you have someone in serious trouble around you is most useful.

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Yes the reversed or ill dignified cards are often harsher than the dignified and we don't want to know the whole truth in gory detail all the time.

On the other hand, a 'full' reading when you have someone in serious trouble around you is most useful.

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I think reversals are also more useful in certain spreads. If I'm doing one of my small day to day spreads, then there is no need to do reversals, but if I'm doing a Celtic Cross or a Tree of Life spread, I would definitely want to use reversals in my reading.

My suggestion is to start without reversals, and then gradually build your intuitions about what a reversal in that position surrounded by those cards generally means. You'll get a lot of the same cards every time when you read the same person, and this will help you get accustomed to what happens with those cards and this person, if that makes any sense. I recommend learning the attributions and forgetting as much of the in depth symbology as possible for readings, and then you're going to have to remember all the symbology for pathworking and ritual work.

I reccomend Tarot for Dummies by Amber Jayanti for a beginner. Wang's Qabalistic is not only hard to find but doesn't deal with the Rider-Waite, but the Golden Dawn descriptions instead. The Book of Thoth is a good one to just read through a couple of times to get that baseline of attributions sort of memorized, (as long as you don't try to analyze the book too much) but deals with the Crowley-Thoth Tarot. There is another one I'll try to think of that is a real "reading for others" book. I've read tarot for others maybe 12 times, and consistently use it only to better my approaches to day to day living and decision making.

Best of luck in your journey. Give yourself time to decipher the occult, it can take a long time to make sense out of it. Took me 3 or 4 years before the light bulb went on.