Hello! In case you didn’t know already, I’m Jasper. Want to know anything else about me, feel free to look at my intro post, as I am new here.
Anyway, so I’m in the broom closet as a pagan. My parents are Christian, and I don’t exactly want them to know about me and my beliefs. I want to do divination, I feel drawn to it, and the one thing I was introduced to is tarot, but with a standard deck of cards (thank you, @Sedim_Haba ). Only thing is, I’m not sure how.
I am currently in the middle of making an oracle deck (I think it’s called that?) out of a regular deck of playing cards, but I’m giving each card meaning by having it signed by someone who’s leaving my life. I just started, so that’s going to take a while (and it’s signed by friends, no strangers). And I feel the call to do it now.
Does anyone know what the cards mean (or can you give me a link to a website that has the meanings)? Thank you so much!
Jasper
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Scintillating Sunday Jasper,
I believe we talked a little about this. I found a site that makes it easy.
Tarot Regular Playing Deck of Cards
I hope this link works out for you. The 1-10 numbers in the playing card deck have the same meanings as the 1-10 in tarot. The suits are equivalent to the 4 “elements” given in tarot also. The face cards are only slightly different because tarot has 4 “face” cards instead of 3.
This will be able to help you start out with a regular deck of cards and nobody else will be the wiser.
Lady Gene 
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This does seem to be a repeating question here - maybe you could put your mini-guide on this in its own topic so we can just direct people to it. Just a thought. 
Explain that the roots of the Abrahamic religions are the ancestral religions, they will accept it better
Greetings craqdi, seems our AI mod flagged something you posted. It happens.
Please PM the admin and/or make a new account and write a short intro!
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How I heard to use the playing cards is to take a sharpe and label the card closest to
the Tarot card as a substitute. Now, you will need two cheap decks, second for the Major
Arcana. Shuffle and lay out the cards as you would Tarot cards, then look up the results
online or in a book/pdf. Some people do this just so they don’t damage/wear their REAL
deck, then switch the substituent cards for the real ones. That’s what I hear anyways.
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