Reversal Corner-1

For these tutorials on reversals I will be using a couple of different sources as well as my own insights, thoughts, and opinions.  Here are the sources I will be using.

The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals
by Mary K. Greer

Tarot Plain and Simple
by Anthony Louis

Learning the Tarot
Joan Bunning

And possibly:
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom
By Rachel Pollock

The cards detailed are picked a random with no particular rhyme or reason.  I just shuffle and cut the cards and select one or more for these exercises/discussions.

On first deciding to use reversed cards it seems like a rather simple affair ... but is it?  I'm not talking about trying to read the cards but the process that leads up to reading the card, or cards.

1.) How do you get the cards reversed in the first place?

2.) What spread, or spreads should you use with reversed cards?

3.) How do you select the cards?

4.) What happens when you have more reversed cards than upright cards in a reading?

5.) Should you 'reset' the deck, place all the cards upright, after a reading as a means of cleansing the deck or so that to your mind all the cards are in some type of order after a reversed reading.

6.) And probably the most important question as far as I'm concerned is, 'Do the reversed cards upset the symmetry of the spread', to your way of thinking and looking at the spread?

Don S.