Expert Tarot Articles
20 articles by Boris Stromov on tarot questions, reading spreads, personal practice, and the differences between AI and human tarot readers.
- How to Ask Tarot Questions the Right Way
Learn how to phrase a tarot question, why background information matters, and how your intentions can make a reading more meaningful.
- What Questions Can You Ask Tarot Cards?
Explore the kinds of questions you can bring to a tarot reading, why readers set different boundaries, and which topics I do not take on.
- Tarot Questions You Should Avoid Asking
Why asking the same question repeatedly, seeking only a preferred answer, and building assumptions into questions can weaken a tarot reading.
- How to Ask Tarot Questions About Relationships
Why your relationship history matters more than a fixed list, when to ask about feelings, and how not to project your own worries onto a partner.
- How to Ask Tarot About Love and Feelings
How to ask about someone's feelings, why emotions can change quickly, and how present feelings differ from the future of a relationship.
- How to Ask Tarot About Work and Your Career
How to ask tarot about changing jobs, career development, co-workers and difficult workplace situations without demanding false precision.
- How to Ask Tarot About Money and Finances
Which financial questions lend themselves to tarot, why the size of a decision matters, and how to phrase a money-related reading.
- How to Ask Tarot Questions About the Future
Why “what will happen to me?” is so broad, how to narrow a question about the future, and why your own intentions matter.
- How to Read a Tarot Spread: A Beginner's Method
Learn a one-card question method, three cards and a significator, and why the meaning of a tarot spread matters more than its shape.
- How Tarot Card Positions Work in a Spread
Understand what positions such as “cause,” “advice” and “outcome” mean and why their roles come from your questions, not their location on the table.
- What If Tarot Cards Seem to Contradict Each Other?
Learn to distinguish genuinely different angles in a reading from repeated questions and attempts to force a desired tarot answer.
- Upright and Reversed Tarot Cards
Two approaches to upright and reversed tarot cards, why reversals complicate readings, and why upright cards are not always positive.
- How to Read a Three-Card Tarot Spread
Learn past-present-future tarot and an alternative approach using three cards for one question plus a significator.
- How Many Cards Should You Use in a Tarot Reading?
Discover how many cards to use for different questions and why a simple situation rarely needs a complicated tarot spread.
- How to Choose the Right Tarot Spread
Choose a ready-made tarot spread, remove irrelevant positions, add your own questions, and explain the situation behind them.
- Can You Read Tarot for Yourself?
Why there is no ban on self-readings, how personal involvement can affect interpretation, and when to step away from the cards.
- How Often Should You Get a Tarot Reading?
My recommendation on reading frequency, why repeating the same question can become a habit, and when follow-up readings differ.
- Do You Need a Photo, Name or Date of Birth for Tarot?
Whether personal details are required for tarot, why I sometimes request a photograph, and how background information helps.
- What Is an AI Tarot Reader and How Does It Work?
How the AI tarot reader at my-tarot.one interprets questions and randomly selected cards, and how it can assist with your own physical deck.
- AI Tarot Reader vs. Human Tarot Reader
Compare an AI interpretation of randomly selected tarot cards with a personal reading, including the role of experience and human connection.