Reading with regular Playing Cards

[Ms_Guided Angel]

Can anyone tell me about readings done with a regular playing card deck.  How accurate is it..Is it the same as using Tarot decks?  I have only had a readings done in this fashion and would like to learn it myself.  

Thanks, Denise

[Rhutobello]

In my opinion, it much depend on your intuation.
There are many who do it, but it is not as popular as Tarot.

In a google search I found this site which describe it well

http://www.cardsbylaura.com/cartomancy.html

[Ms_Guided Angel]

Thanks Rhuto...I will check it out...Will let you know if it is at all similar to the readings that I've had done around here..

[Nicole]

In my opinion, it much depend on your intuation.
There are many who do it, but it is not as popular as Tarot.

In a google search I found this site which describe it well

http://www.cardsbylaura.com/cartomancy.html

Thanks.. A few of my friends can do it this way.. I would love to learn it this way also... Waves to you both~!!  :smt006

[BLouise]

I researched reading playing cards and it is similar to tarot reading.  I have a harder time though remembering the meanings without the pictures, but someone who isn't a beginner like myself may have an easier time.

Free Cartomancy Reading for you!!

[candlea]

i read playing cards and i think sometimes in a situation it more detailed then tarot, and alot more easier too, you can use any tarot spread with the playing cards also.

[Ms_Guided Angel]

Hey all...I found two sites so far that give EXCELLENT  info about using regular playing cards......

1.  http://www3.sympatico.ca/terrir/playing ... nings.html

2.  http://www3.sympatico.ca/terrir/playing ... nings.html (This one is my favorite so far)

Have fun....Cheers, Denise

[priestess12]

I actually started reading regular playing cards before I ever picked up a tarot deck and was successful enough that I eventually and naturally gravitated toward the tarot. The good thing about reading a regular deck is that if you don't have your cards and need to give yourself or someone else a reading you're still in good shape. Now when I read regular playing cards I usually interpret them as I would the corresponding tarot cards and I have been very successful at that.

[DeeFrap]

I have a friend who reads both, she is more accurate when reading me when she uses her playing cards.

[silense]

I find that reading with playing cards is much like the tarot..without the major's in play of course. I like switching between the two.
There are sites online you can earch under cartomancy ( I believe thats how u spell it ) and they are quite helpful.

[Barbaras Ahajustsde]

There are many versions/card discripts using a regular deck of cards.  You can use them like tarot, but then again, it  keeps you from buying another tarot deck!  

I like the Hedge Wytchery, Love Oracle and Personal Prophesy card discripts.  There's tons of stuff out there to research and alot of books that keep coming out to grab ahold of!

Find what fits with your intuition!
Barb

[RedWhisper]

The cards share an ancestry. You can read them much the same way you would read tarot cards (same meanings, with I believe hearts representing cups, spades as swords, clubs as wands, and diamonds as pentacles). The only difference is the knight+page vs. jack meaning, for which you may adopt a neutral blended definition of both.

[sophielee]

I would love to learn to read playing cards.......I did have a reading a few years back, it was so accurate.

Has anyone had any experience with websites for cartomancy?

[MySpirit1111]

I've used a regular deck of playing cards quite a few times to do a quick reading when I didn't have my Tarot deck with me.  I got accurate answers but not as detailed as with a Tarot deck.  What I was getting was mostly intuition rather than meanings from the cards.  Intuition is a very big part of reading Tarot and Tarot, itself, helps to develop the intuition.  It's much easier to use the Tarot -- to learn with, especially.

Hope this helps,.

MySpirit1111

[AngelBarbie]

I do my readings thru regular cards and the people I do the readings on say that I'm very accurate.  My friend and I each did a reading on our other friend and the regular cards were more accurate according to him.