The Reversals Rebellion: Why Flipping Your Intuition Off Might Turn It On

Today's Lesson Here's a counterintuitive truth about developing intuition: sometimes the best way to strengthen your gut instinct is to deliberately ignore one of tarot's most popular tools. Many readers use reversed cards (upside-down cards) as part of their practice, and that's completely valid. But if you're trying to build raw intuitive muscle, consider temporarily putting all reversals aside and reading every card upright for the next month. Why does this work? Because reversals can become a crutch that your analytical mind hides behind. When you see a card upside-down, there's a temptation to immediately flip into 'reversal mode'—blocked energy, delays, internalized issues, opposite meanings. Your brain reaches for the rulebook instead of reaching inward. But when every card must be read upright, you lose that escape hatch. You can't rely on the reversed/upright toggle to do the interpretive work for you. Instead, you're forced to feel into the card's energy within the context of the question, the surrounding cards, and that subtle shift in your solar plexus that tells you something matters here. The magic happens when you realize you were already reading the full spectrum of each card's possibilities—you just weren't giving yourself credit for it. An upright…