VIDEO: How do I tell which direction my card is facing? I’m here to answer this commonly asked about reading tarot cards: When it comes to four-sided, or square-shaped tarot cards, how do you tell which direction the card is facing with these new left and right directions? Traditional tarot cards are read upright and reversed. It is easy to tell when a card is reversed because it’s upside down when you look at it. Things get a little trickier when there are two more direction