How to read the cards, in different ways. And how to begin.

When you are a complete beginner you feel quite excited about holding the deck, you might swiftly drive away to some magical land where you are the master of the future. And when you pull out the cards and try to read them, you actually get disappointed as you didn't arrange the question well or didn't 'ask' your questions clearly or you might find the cards saying a totally different message then what your question is. I would advice to go with Tarot Reading step by step, and start from baby steps and try to grasp more and more of what your cards have depicted in the spread.
Usually a beginner understands everything what the cards are giving out only through their psyche and cannot verbalize what they mean. it is for this reason that people usually advice that you should be reading more and more stuff of Tarot rather then just one or two books. There are many books that I too have but my mind doesn't accept meanings of all the books. Some meanings appear quite strange to what the card is, and others give so specific meanings that they automatically seep into your mind. It is for this reason that Tarot Teachers around the world advice on keeping a 'tarot journal'. If you have not started writing it, start it now. Its for your own speedy Tarot learning.
Also I would like you to check various websites where you can find interesting Tarot related articles that are sometimes free or paid, you can choose any you like. Reading different people will help you hear your own psyche.
You can contact me you need any further help with Learning the Tarot and we can sort it out. Your session for half an hour of learning would cost $20 for any amount of questions you have from me about Tarot Learning.
Also if you don't understand the meanings, don't give up. Keep practicing daily. And keep doing for reading for yourself. Doing reading for oneself helps us understand Tarot quite quickly as we ourselves know what is in our mind, and Tarot reflects it. So we can judge very quickly how our predictions are.