Since each card has a large spectrum of meanings, when you are expert enough to know a few hundred for each card, your Tarot responses are detailed and nuanced enough without reversals.

Different readers have different applications of their reversals, and some readers have more than one application. Reversals usually can say the opposite of the card’s normal meaning, or can simply apply less. My observation is, the more expert a reader is, the less likely he or she is to use reversals.

(A factor here is that most of the top talent Tarot readers concentrate on what the question is, how the cards affect one another, and what cards say the same thing.)

If a reader’s Tarot system involves astrology meanings and/or numerology meanings, or some other divination system’s meanings, using reversals on top of that really complicates the process of reading. (I like simple, myself!)

Be aware that when you divide the deck, you are removing the upright meanings of half the deck. To me, that is a loss, a hazard.

All this being said, any Tarot system works for the reader using it. Our subconscious sees to it that we draw the card that answers our query well regardless. On a good day.