My dad turned me on to tarot and astrology in 1976.  I quickly saw there were very few books interpreting reversed cards, and the ones that did had nothing good to say. I’ve always been a Pollyanna kind of person because my mom was, so I initially intuited that reversals had to do with a stalling, a delay in expression while it’s evolving, with a sequence having to be performed before the upright meaning of the card could be granted, i.e. Mary wants C to happen but she gets a reversed card because before C can happen, she has to do A and B.  Reversals can have to do with plans pondered yet not put into action, lack of sufficient effort, or something they feel they are being held apart from. It can be where they feel blocked or discouraged, where they feel fearful. It indicates working through an issue. We work through issues every day so we’re not talking about the world crashing down around you. It simply indicates something at play in your life right now and those things come to pass, they don’t come to stay. When Rachael Pollack’s 78 Degrees of Wisdom came out in 1977, my world changed as I incorporated her interpretations with my own. With some friends/clients, they don’t want the reversed card to be read so I honor their wish. A reversed card however does give more complex and greater levels of insight, which is what she is there for in the first place. I find reversals especially helpful in answering Yes or No questions.