The Hello and

welcome to Tarot Bites. I'm Teresa Reed, the Tarot Lady.

I'm the creator of the Tarot Master Class and the author of the Terrow Coloring Book. I'm also your host for this

podcast series. This is episode 4 of Terrow Bites, the podcast where I dish out short entertaining

bite-sized lessons on how to read Tarot. For today's

episode our topic is breaking down the Tarot Deck. So you ready? Let's begin.

In a standard Tarot deck there are 78 cards and each deck is divided into two parts.

I actually prefer to divide mine into three and I'll explain that in a moment but first I want to talk about decks that have extra cards

Like I said before a standard tarot deck has 78 cards

But when you are searching for a deaf you might discover that there are some

out there that have extra cards. They might even have you know up to 90 or 100 cards instead

of the standard 78.

And the artist may have created these additional cards to add an extra element that they felt were missing in a regular deck.

And extra cards might lend well to innovative interpretations.

In fact, you might really like them because, hey, you know, anything extra is nice.

But I want you to know that extra cards are not essential. A 78

card deck works perfectly fine. And you know I prefer it because I'm a

traditionalist that way and I really do believe that everything that you need is

picture it right there in those 78 tarot cards. Now you might feel differently and I'm going to say

go ahead and experiment and then trust your

gut to see what feels right for you. So that being said we're going to break down

the tarot deck and we are going to be talking about a standard 78 card tarot deck.

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