Reversals and context

When a card comes up upside down it is reversed. Readers disagree about what that means, and you are free to choose your rule, as long as you choose it before you draw. Common choices:

1. Ignore reversals. Read every card upright. Perfectly respectable.
2. Blocked energy. The card’s meaning is present but stuck, delayed, or internal.
3. The shadow side. Read the card’s risk more strongly than its opportunity.

In this deck every card already holds both an opportunity and a risk, so the third option comes naturally: a reversed card asks you to look harder at the cost.

The same card means different things in different places. The Tower in the past is a disaster you survived. The Tower in the present is happening now. The Tower in the future is a warning, or a promise that something rigid is about to break open. Always read a card in its position, and read the positions together. The Tower in the middle of a three-card spread is the hinge of the whole story: everything before it is what breaks, everything after it is what grows in the space.