Practicing tarot
It took me years and years to get where I am now with my tarot readings and even now, I still learn new things within them especially through my teachings and my students which I just love!
I believe it’s a never ending journey of tarot discovery
At the start of your tarot journey you may choose to do a course, like I did or perhaps you have taken mine, or you may choose to learn intuitively. There really are no set rules to this. I took a 10 week tarot course after having my cards for 20 years, after the 10 weeks we had to read for a stranger, off the street, and boom my mind went blank. I had forgotten everything. In fact he ended up giving me a reading! I was disheartened as my friend from the course, who sat next to me seemed to know every single card and was doing really well with her reading. My wonderful teacher told me not to worry as the slow burners seem to bloom better later and the quick ones seem to fizzle out as time goes on. Let’s just say now some 15 years later I’m doing this full time & I know my friend hasn’t read for over 10 years and hasn’t remembered a thing!
So don’t panic about getting it all at once. I suggest to my students, to take a card a day and not look at it until the end. See what that card is and how your day connects. I find this easier than knowing what the card is at the start of the day, and making the day for with the card.
Having personnel stories with the cards really helps. Through your personnel stories you form a relationship and bond with them. The chariot for example is my fave card! When my cat went missing, I naturally pulled my cards and the chariot was the outcome, I just knew he would return after journey round the blocks! So when my boyfriend ended or relationship and I pulled the cards, when the chariot appeared as the outcome again, I knew he would come home – and he did! So you see why it’s my fave card! Doing your own cards and pulling a card a day can help you connect to your own personal meanings and stories.
Be true to you
Find a way that suits you to read and don’t compare yourself with others. Trust your intuition and find your own values, ethics and style
What else can you do
Practice Practice practice. Its cliché but it is what works, be open to be flexible and when you are ready try opening up to other ways of learning and expanding on your knowledge. It really is the more you do it the more you will get out of it. We didn’t have Pinterest when I first started out, those learning now can have so much more fun!
Don’t give up. If you don’t click with the tarot to start with, don’t worry, you can always pick them up later on, understand this is a journey, you’re not going to get it all in 10 weeks!
