What do you do when a card is dealt upside down? Do you immediately upright it and continue reading, or do you scrutinize it and look deeper? Reading with reversals gives you alternative meanings to each card.
Reversals can uncover hidden issues or problems that you are unaware or hiding from yourself. Some things that reversals may indicate are:
*Something not likely to happen
*Blocked energy keeps you from moving forward
*A not so great personality trait or negative influence
*Something may not appear what it is
*Something needs internal processing
*Card energy is out of balance or taken to extremes
To tell in what area the problem lies, check the card’s position.
(Based on Theresa Michelson’s The Complete Tarot Reader (ISBN 0738704342)
A list of reversed key words with the help of Mary K. Greer’s chart from The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals (ISBN 9781567182859) suggests: Denied, avoided, repressed, refused, indecisive, unforeseen, private, unexpressed, lacking, unrealized, irresponsible, out of control, preparing for. Also included are any words beginning with: Mis, Dis, Un, In, Im, Ir, Non, Ob, Ex, Re, Over, Under, Sub, Con, and Counter.
My personal words are mistake or misunderstanding; disenchanted; insincere; nonsensical; immoral, immature; obstruction; redo; overworked, overbearing, overachieving; undiscovered, underachieving; subconscious, substandard; contrary; counterproductive. Choose your own as each reversed card's image suggests to you.