 Hello people! I'm Ginny Metherill and I am a fourth generation witch. Today's video is about tarot and me. I wanted to give you an introduction in how you might use tarot as a divination tool and so I thought it would be really good if we could have a look at tarot and Ginny together. Today's video is sponsored by the platform Keen who have a wealth of psychics and astrologers to choose from. However more on that later and I want to reveal my experiences with them and what happened because it's quite spooky. However let's go back to the tarot. A tarot deck is simply a deck of cards with a variety of symbols on them. The modern day tarot that we all know today is the one that has the four suits, pentacles, the wands, the suit of cups and the suit of swords. Four suits then numbered one to ten and then you have a king, a queen, a knight and a nave in each of the suits and these four suits are known as the minor arcana. Then there is a group of 21 cards which are known as the major arcana. These are a diverse set of cards ranging anything from the devil through to a chariot through to the well known lovers. The tarot deck itself was invented in northern Italy in a 1400 and we use simply as a card game. The card games from tarot decks then developed throughout the following centuries and people came to use them for divination as much as they had used the traditional playing cards for divination. So it is a simply a divination tool. There's nothing magical about them, there's nothing special about them. However you can imbue them with your own energy and that makes them a bit more magical and a bit more special. The standard pack of tarot cards is literally a standard pack of tarot cards. People read tarot cards in a variety of different ways. They can read them by once they've chosen their cards to place them in a particular layout on the table. There's some very standard ones like the Celtic cross or the simple quick draw three card tarot which is one of my favorites. People also interpret the tarot in different ways. My mother who was incredibly psychic stopped using the tarot because it inspired too many visions for her and so she'd be sitting there reading tarot for people and then she'd have a vision and she said more often than not it was a dreadful vision you know of death trauma destruction whatever and she didn't want to tell the people about the death trauma destruction whatever that was coming their way so she'd sit with it and she said she used to give her the heebie jeebies that she'd have to sit with all this knowledge so she stopped reading people's tarot because they bought on her prophetic visions. So interestingly tarot doesn't work for me that way. However I'm a pretty good tarot card reader who I thought I would test out some tarot card readers for you so this leads me on to today's sponsor. 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I wanted one that had a particular interest in financial and career divination and so eventually I hit upon this lady here. I decided that I wanted to spend exactly the same amount of money that I would charge for a tarot reading so that's what I did. I gave this lady the same question that I've asked myself many times over and she drew three cards I didn't ask her to. I didn't tell her anything else about me apart from my name and my birth date. She drew three cards and do you know what was quite spooky is that I have been drawing those three cards for the last year and these cards are the chariot, the empress and the tower. So tower's a bit worrying isn't it? It's a bit of a worrisome card that one really. However her interpretation of them was pretty much on a par of my interpretation of them but I'm still unsure about the tower and I think she was too. What do you think these three cards mean? She was spookily accurate in her card pulling so let's find out if she's right in her interpretation. So how do you read tarot cards? I can only show you how I did. So my way is to take your pack of cards and to shuffle them whilst holding whatever and to shuffle them pretty badly while holding the question in your mind of what you want to ask. Once you feel that you have shuffled the cards to your liking then I always like to cut the cards as simple tada. Your pack is now ready for choosing. I would recommend if you're going to start start with three card spread. Take your cards that you've cut and shuffled and carefully spread them out across the table then gently run your hand across the top of the pack and when your palm feels different and mine feels hot that is the card that I would choose. I mean if you can't do the hand technique you could just wait for the cards to jump out at you when you're shuffling or you can use a pendulum. Once you've chosen your three cards it's a really good idea to use a yes or no divination tool to help you and I use a pendulum and this is my new wooden one which I bought this weekend with the Devon Dowsing Association. Hello Devon Dowsers, shout out to you you're all witches by the way I thought. I tend to find that I read them very intuitively so I don't look at the book and the book doesn't work for me. It certainly works for lots of other people but not me so I tend to look at the card and hold the question in my mind that is being set to that card and then if anything about the picture the words on it the state of it or maybe it's even what I think of when I look at this card jumps out at me then that is going to be something that I'll intuitively start to talk about. Other top tips for tarot are when you first get the tarot cards let them sit with you for a while and you will then feel the information flowing into you. Try to not get bogged down in what the book says. The book might give you a clue as to where this card will take you but it's difficult if you constantly refer to the book. If you pull one of the suits a king a queen a nave or a page I normally take this as reference to a person a person that the sitter knows or might even be themselves and if I pull one of the numbered suits often it will again refer to a person however these suits tend to be about everyday normal activities. The major arcana cards if I pull those that's more life path divination so it's a broader picture but that doesn't necessarily mean that that happens all the time it's a bit of rubbish tip that is however you start off with that general premise you can often find the true meaning of the card. There are so many different styles of tarot cards on the market today so when choosing a tarot deck for your own use I'd go with the one that makes you feel happy because if it makes you feel happy you will intuitively be better with it so that's my last piece of advice do leave me a comment below especially about what you think those three cards mean for me please do like and subscribe because it really helps my channel or you can get a patreon.com and check out my page there but otherwise I will see you in a few days.