Tarot card reading begins with shuffling the deck while focusing on a specific question or area of life you want insight into. Then, choose a spread (a particular arrangement of cards) that suits your question, and lay out the cards face down in that pattern. Turn over each card one by one, interpreting its meaning in relation to its position in the spread and your question. The reader then synthesizes the meanings of all the cards together to provide a cohesive interpretation or answer to the question at hand.