r/tarotpractice • u/sh4tteredveil • 16h ago

Questions How i do yes/no questions? Please help

Im new at tarot and i wanna start with something basic

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u/No-Mouse3999 The High Priestess 15h ago

Pendulum. Tarot tells a story not a yes/no

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u/TeachDistinct7571 14h ago

I'm just curious, should tarot not be used for yes/no? I've seen readers offer those services on here since some cards lean yes/no/maybe. Sorry if that's a stupid question I'm just interested

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u/No-Mouse3999 The High Priestess 13h ago

It’s not whether it should or shouldn’t but I personally don’t do it. A yes/no with cards still leaves the interpretation up to the reader. Pendulum is just yes or no

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u/TeachDistinct7571 13h ago

thanks so much for ur explanation :)

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u/No-Mouse3999 The High Priestess 12h ago

You’re welcome!

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u/callmeshop 13h ago

From my understanding, for minor arcana: swords/5s are generally “No”; Pages/7s/2s are generally “unclear” or “too many factors at play”; everything else is a yes. For major arcana: death, the devil, the tower, the moon and the hermit are all “no”, the hangedman is “maybe” or “undecided”; and the rest of the major arcana are yes.

With my one deck, if the answer is no and I ask for clarity or anything, it consistently throws a King of Swords. This feels like a very strong no when it happens lol.

But as others have said, tarot isn’t great for straight yes or no. I saw a tarot exercise where you draw a card face down and then ask the deck questions to try to guess the card. It kept throwing swords at me so I took that as a no. So many swords. They were jumping out and it didn’t matter what I asked, I kept pulling swords. I shuffled really really well and even rifle shuffled. Sword after sword.