I generally don’t like to ask yes or no questions with tarot because there are too many variables at play for me. I find that my interpretations, when I ask questions like that, tend to be too vague or difficult for me to understand and wrap my head around. I attribute this to the plethora of symbology that is available in tarot cards—the images and symbols and meanings and everything.
Now, I’m not gonna say that you can’t ask yes or no questions with tarot, but I think if you do, you need to have a very clear system set up for yourself so you’re not stuck trying to interpret cards for the reading that don’t make any sense to you because you didn’t set something up ahead of time. I have seen people do yes or no questions where they shuffle the cards and it doesn’t matter what card they pull, because what they’re looking for is the orientation of the card—so an upright card would be a yes, and a reversal would be a no.
For me, this just leaves too much to be unknown. I don’t think there are very many situations where a strict yes or no answer is gonna give me everything that I need to know. If I were to ask a yes or no question, I would choose a different method of divination, such as flipping a coin, using a pendulum, or even creating an oracle deck that is specific to yes or no questions—sort of like a Magic 8-Ball. That would probably work better for me.
I do think it’s interesting to see the different methods of answering yes or no questions with tarot and oracle. Just because it doesn’t work for me or I don’t like it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t work for other people, and I would definitely be open to experimenting with it, for sure.