I could write a book, and that’s what you need here. Your first questions create meanings for individual cards, meanings that are embedded. If all you ask about is love and money, all your meanings apply to those things and don’t function well when you ask general questions.

At this point in my Tarot development, a dozen books’ meanings were not useful. Neither was sitting in on 3 professionals’ readings, because they were not reading the cards, my perspective: They were listening to spirits, they said.

I determined that the way to get Tarot’s meanings was to ask questions I knew the answers to. I got that idea from ‘you can’t solve an unknown with an unknown’ from algebra. That was in 1980. I wrote those meanings on index cards and filed them. I still do that.

Those index cards are Two-card Combinations now.

I would say that since I went through this process, the shortest way for you to learn Tarot is to subscribe to Tarot Easy Pieces, and to ‘Membership,’ which is Two-card Combinations, because everyone reports this system works better than others they are exposed to. Also ask Tarot questions you know the answers to, and start your own private data bank by filing the combinations you find in such a way you can retrieve them. I used index cards, and I still think this is the most useful.

Beginning Tarot corresponds to the newly fertilized egg: Initial events create a cascade of development that brings about things we are unaware of, things we don’t undo, so it’s a vitally important stage. Right when we don’t know a thing.

Your first questions are assigning meanings not only to each card but to combinations of them.