Cards can fall upside down, as with a physically shuffled deck.
Shorter, gentler motion throughout.
Open questions work best — what, how, what do I need to understand — rather than yes or no. Or leave it blank for general guidance.
Every reader works from the same traditional meanings; they differ in voice.
Cards can land upside down, as they do from a well-shuffled deck. Reversals soften, delay or turn a card's meaning inward.
The ten-card spread A. E. Waite published in 1911 as "most suitable for obtaining an answer to a definite question." Laid out exactly as in his diagram, with an optional Significator.
Waite's method: a card chosen to stand for you (or the matter) is set down first, and card 1 covers it.
Next, you’ll shuffle, cut and draw the cards yourself.