You got Tarot Cards but no guide, What? You expect us all to have innate gypsy knowledge? :P

Google it, man!

Feel free to come up with your own approach!

If you want some information about real Tarot cards, check out the Wikipedia article. Or, alternately, ask your fellow players! I'm sure that somebody out there knows how they work.

I can give you an idea of how it often works... but I'm not gonna retype the meaning of all the various cards!

Easiest thing to do is go to a 2nd-hand book store and find some guide to the tarot book that somebody else has thrown out!

Rough guide:

The Major Arcana - titled cards. These cards stand for broader more universal ideas, states of mind or ways of being. They are not the everyday feelings and practicalities of life, but the human psyche broadly played out in ideas and philosophies.

The Minor Arcana - the suit cards. Cups: associated with emotions; and elemental water. Wands/Staves: creativity/imagination; Fire. Swords: intellectual and abstract thought; Air. Pentacles or Coins: material wealth and associated wealth of food, shelter and clothing; Earth.

Numbered cards of the suits are considered the ordinary experiences of life, reflecting typical experience in the different realms described above.

The Court Cards of the suits (there are four court cards instead of three in the modern playing card deck) embody character types or real human figures who represent areas of life.

The Page or Knave: the young, or a person who is only just beginning to show signs of certain qualities. Eg. Page of Wands - a person who is beginning to show signs of creativity.

Knights: adolescents, the volatile/energetic/experimental stage of the development of qualities. Eg. Knight of Wands - a creative, exciting, charming but perhaps unreliable or unstable performer.

Queens: mature women, stable/receptive/inward-focused aspects of the qualities of each suit. Eg. Queen of Wands - a contemplative, warm person whose creative process is quiet and contained.

Kings: mature men, dynamic/demonstrative/outward-focused aspects of the qualities of each suit. Eg. King of Wands - a person whose creativity is well-known, widely demonstrated, perhaps a fiery stirring leader or an inventor with a zest for sharing ideas.

So there's a start.

A simple three card spread could be as simple as past state, present state and future state.

The Celtic Cross is also common. 10 cards laid out in the following order, the 2nd card crossing the first at right angles.

                  10
        3         9
6     1/2    5    8
        4         7

I could go on... but this post is long enough. Let me know if you want me to go into more detail.

Dude, just do what all good Tarot Card readers do. Just make up a load of crap that people want to hear to make them part with their money.

Yeah make it up, like on Simpsons:

Lisa gets a Tarot reading from a gypsy fortune teller. The first card is Death: Lisa screams in the fear, and the reader reassures her that "Death is good. Death means change." Then the second card is the Happy Squirrel. Lisa says "Oh how cute," and the reader screams in fear!