Rider Waite Tarot Deck is a very commonly used Tarot Deck by beginners to many advanced Tarot Readers. It is simple and well organized into 78 picture cards. Each card is palm sized with a colorful picture, number and name on it. There are many more types of Tarot Cards available in the market. Some decks may just contain the 22 Major cards, the early decks had as few as 16 cards in them, then there was another one with 66. Thus, it is not important how many cards are there in a Tarot Deck but more important if the reader can relate to the cards objectively.

There are many Tarot Decks available in the market. In fact many new decks are coming up off late because of the demand.

Different artists interpret the Tarot symbols in different ways by adding their own perspective to it. Some follow themes throughout their deck in correspondence to the Tarot system ranging from baseball to voodoo. There's a Tarot deck to match just about every interest or belief.
 

No not at all. Yes, it is an old myth among Tarot novices that your first deck must be given as a gift, or it somehow is bad luck to buy your own deck. In fact, one must buy their own Tarot Deck by feeling them and the energies in the cards. There is nothing wrong with obtaining your own set of Tarot cards. A person can in a way choose a style and art that is compatible with his taste and energy.

Many times readers buy cards for their students which isn’t wrong either because they know and feel energies and can choose the best for their students.
 

It's best to look at a few different types of Tarot decks before you choose one and to find one with symbolism and artwork that suits you. You can browse through the internet and see the best rated and reviewed decks. For the new comers it is best suggested to buy The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck, Hanson –Roberts Tarot Deck or the Gilded Tarot Deck. These are the standard cards having simple to understand pictures and the meanings and symbols in the pictures are easy to learn.

You can buy a Tarot Deck at Crossword, Landmark or any other Bookstore which sells it.

A Tarot deck is at least loosely based on the 78 card structure of 56 minor cards and 22 major cards. An oracle deck is any other deck of cards used for similar purposes to a deck of Tarot cards and can also be called a divination deck, meditation deck, or cartomantic deck.
 

No, nothing ‘seals’ your fate. Our lives are a series of possibilities based on our decisions they branch out in different directions. After a reading if you feel that you do not wish to follow what the reader suggested you, then it is absolutely your choice and there is no pressure upon it. Nothing interpreted by a reader seals your fate. What you do with what the cards have shown you is all upon you. The Tarot can only reveal possibilities and probabilities but not certainties. Thus, there is nothing certain about your life.

No, We as readers do not reveal birth and death. This is one thing which is laid on faith, prayers and belief. To show some one death before it has arrived means to kill the person before his time and to tell someone of a birth means to reveal the mystery about life. Tarot helps in revealing many mysteries about life, but we leave the mystery of Birth and Death to life itself.

There are many books available in bookstores and online to learn the meanings of the Tarot cards. You can also register on my course to learn Tarot Reading, where you not only learn the meanings of the cards but also of how to make use of the cards, how to interpret meanings, how to conduct a reading, how to relate the cards while doing a reading, which reading to do, how to guide and advise yourself and many others who come to you for a reading.