I don't believe in this kind of thing much, but am nonetheless enthralled by it (also, I love jjba and lotm).
Think of a question, shuffle the deck, and pick your cards.
Shuffle the deck to begin.
reversed = the card came out upside down. it's read as the same card but blocked, turned inward or overdone, not simply as the opposite.
cards: the Rider–Waite–Smith deck, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith in 1909 (public domain). meanings: based on A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910) and how the cards are usually read today. the speed, romance, moon, sun and general readings are borrowed from the Clow Card Fortune Book, which I found through this Clow Card site.