09/09/2025
There are many ways to approach reversed cards in Tarot. Here’s the perspective I work with:
🔎 Visual Clues
When a card appears reversed, it can highlight something we hadn’t noticed before. A detail becomes charged when the image is upside down. Even more important is to see if this shift brings extra information through the cards around it.
For example: The Hermit reversed next to The Devil. The lantern of the Hermit points directly at the bunch of grapes that form the woman’s tail—shedding light on an aspect that otherwise remains hidden in the Devil’s darkness.
📖 Traditional Approach
Many readers interpret reversals as blocked, stagnant, or “negative” aspects of the archetype.
✨ My Approach
I don’t see reversals as inherently negative. To me, they often reveal energies that are present but not yet integrated or fully developed. They need activation, attention, or conscious effort to unfold their potential.
🗝️ Structured Readings
In spreads where each card position already carries a defined meaning—“the unconscious,” “what’s hidden,” “what I’m not seeing”—we’re already entering the card from a shadow angle. In these cases, the position itself acts as a reversal. Here we explore what’s stagnant, shadowy, or unconscious.
Some readers ignore reversals and flip the card upright. Others work with the reversed image as it is. Both are valid—there’s no single “right” way.
Try these approaches yourself, or tell me how you read them.
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