Cartomancy and Reversals

[FruityLlama]

Hello everyone. 

This question is inspired by vg but I didn't want to hijack your reading thread with this question, but also I thought it'd be good to ask everyone this. Do you use reversals and why/ why not?

I have been using them but sometimes I wonder if its really worth it because sometimes I will realise I have been using the deck upside down and I kind of get similar results without reversals. However, other times I find them quite telling and my book that helps me with interpretations includes them. 

But what are your thoughts and opinions? Please use the poll so I can collate them all together. 

Many thanks in advance. 

[12YearsABlob]

I am too chicken to use reversals. Blame the Sag MC, don't need that kind of negativity in my life.

Actually yes, sometimes they can be insightful (and they're not always negative).

I might be missing something by ignoring them - so I try to accommodate *both* meanings in my upright reading. You know what I mean?
When I try to piece the cards together, I consider both the upright and reversed meanings and put them together based on what I can tell from the spread.

How is that different from using outright reversals? Well, for one, I have a weird anxiety when it comes to seeing reversed cards. Applying the reversed meaning myself as a "possibility" is less stressful and gives me room to explore different meanings.

**P.S. I see the card meanings as independent of qualifiers. The "story" is built from many cards, and the absolute meanings are strung together by us. So, *we* fill in the "not X" or "a lot of X" and things like that (where X is the absolute meaning). We fill in the qualifiers that complete the meaning (or so I think).

[FruityLlama]

I think that's a very sensible way of doing it 12YearsABlob actually and I might start doing it myself. Other cards help with the angle we should take, definitely.

I must admit, when I get reversals it can be a bit unsettling, unless its the Tower or Devil card of course!

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I personally don't use reversals because i think they are reversed because of for example, the way I had place them in the deck from the previous reading and the previous reading isn't the current reading. So when I see a certain card reversed i don't necessarily see it as a positive/negative, i would only base those qualities on the question asked and the surrounding cards. Upright and reversed are the same for me.