How to Shuffle & Cut | Tarot Cards Video Lecture | Tarot Reading: Read Tarot Cards to know all the Answers - Professional Skills

hello I'm Ellen Goldberg and I welcome
you to this taro moment from the school
of Oracle's this segment is about how to
shuffle and cut the cards
well there are many ways and it's nice
to have a few different ways at your
disposal so that you can choose
sometimes just on your mood and
sometimes on the requirements of a
particular layout will be having
segments on different layouts that you
can do as well in this series but this
moment is really about shuffling itself
if you are a little bit more adept at
shuffling cards you might like to do it
in that very nice way that we do when
we're playing cards like that I like to
do that four times when I shuffle them
in that manner for each letter of the
name of God Yod hey Bob and hey of
course that's in Hebrew but there are
simple ways the main thing is when you
shuffle have an intention I like to
announce to the cards when I mix them
exactly what layout I'm going to do Who
I am
we're going to have a segment on how to
choose a significant as well meaning the
card that represents yourself and how
you're going to shuffle one of the most
easy ways I call going fishing I put the
cards on the table
and I start to move them around you
don't have to be fancy but notice I move
them I'm giving them a chance to find
different orders I'm giving them an
opportunity to be upright or reversed
and then when I've moved them to my
heart's content and remember this is a
short video so I'm not going to move
them around very much you can take as
long or as short as you like
choosing when you're going fishing is a
non-rational process so you have to
trust that whatever card you're
attracted to that's the card for you in
fact I often tell my students you cannot
do it wrong
say I was going to pick the card for
myself for what's my lesson for today I
would have moved them around if I'm just
going fishing and then I find myself
attracted to one and lucky me it's the
ten of Pentacles why it's the ultimate
in the Minor Arcana the Lord of wealth
or the Lord of well-being I know today
is going to go very well for me it's a
rich day we have another segment on how
to use reversed cards you could pull
maybe 1020 cards this way if you're
doing a longer more involved layout it's
perfectly fine sometimes I use the round
and round method which I like to think
of all the ingredients of life being
stirred in a big cauldron and I stir my
question into the cards which I have
announced to the cards silently from my
heart I stir it in as though it were an
ingredient in the stew of life and I
want it to be well mixed so that I
combine methods certainly one can do go
fishing just any old time but sometimes
that's just step one for me then after
I've moved them round and round I bring
them together and I don't worry too much
I put them together in a pile notice how
I get the bottom ones nice and solid on
the table and the ones that have stayed
upright I turn to the side and bring
them together now I'm ready to do any
number of other kinds of cuts one is I
take them and I spread them like a
rainbow arc
on the table and in that way I then let
my hand or in crop let encourage the
person who I'm reading for to move their
hand back and forth across the cards
sometimes I'll feel more heat sometimes
I'll feel a little vibration sometimes
it's not that at all remember choosing
is non-rational I'll just be attracted
to a card one will peak out at me and
for some reason I wanted and I will jus
say I'm doing a three card reading I
pull one I go back and I feel for the
next I pull two and I go back say I'm
doing a little three card meeting and I
pull the third turning them over is
important I like to always turn them
over from the side because I like them
to be in the very same way that the
Tarot has presented them here is a
little message for me
in the center we see the card of great
contentment but it's reversed maybe I'm
too worried and not content about my
work today I may have started out hears
that maybe the past and the future Oh
unsure maybe avoiding some things but
I'm going to wind up strong and powerful
and be working with the subconscious in
a very good way
respect reversed in a bright and please
check out our segment on the meanings of
reverse cards here's another way of
cutting there are so many good ways
one way is after you've done I'm not
going to do it again and again but round
and round making it into the stew of
life I take them and I shuffle them four
times now you've already seen me shuffle
like this but if you can't just like
that net everybody's hands are used to
handling cards these size or even have
that familiarity look just go like this
that's a shuffle I tell people to
shuffle four times whatever four times
means to them if it's as simple as one
two three four that's good enough for me
or if you have been able to shuffle like
this four times excellent
and then I will often just feel the
cards and we'll be having a segment on
how to make an invocation calling forth
or spirit into the cards but I'll have
called forth spirit and I like to
imagine that the hand of an angelic
presence or my own higher self is
invisibly on top of my hand and then I
feel for where the cards want to most
naturally cut themselves and I feel them
notice how I'm feeling along the side
but at the same time I've given the cut
over to a force higher than myself and I
make a cut clean and clear and then I
will deal whatever layout I've chosen
right over from the top of the cut say
I'm doing the Celtic cross off with
those others aside I'll just lay them
out right off the cut because remember
when I've mixed them I have announced to
the cards what reading I'm doing
as soon as you do remember the
intelligence that animates these cards
is just as intelligent if not more than
you are I am and so it will adapt to
anything especially if you announce it
and keep your communication clear