I’ve heard this advice a lot about needing to know uprights perfectly before reversals, but that wasn’t how it worked for me.
When I started looking at reversed meanings early on, it helped me get the upright ones. It’s like seeing the flip side gave me more context for what the card was really about. People stress about the nuances, but I found it easier to understand the cards when I could see both interpretations.
Someone asked that thread about how the Tarot actually works? Well, it doesn’t really matter whether the cards are physically upside down or not. It’s about the message it conveys to the person reading it. That’s it.