Shuffle your cards for this spread, which was also inspired by Mack, and select the five that speak to you, or divide the deck into five piles. Draw a card for each query while taking a deep breath:
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What constitutes a proper tarot reading?
Tarot readings typically proceed in the following manner after that:
- You must first pose a query to the card deck. It ought to be unambiguous and open-ended.
- It’s time to shuffle once you have the question in your head.
- Draw a card (s).
- Lay your chosen card or cards in your spread face down after making your selection.
Can you interpret your own tarot cards?
It most certainly is. Tarot is a technique that aids in deepening our understanding of the present moment, honoring our intuition, and predicting future possibilities. Although it might seem complicated, the technique is actually quite straightforward.
How can I interpret tarot cards on my own?
I discovered early on in my tarot excursions that knowing the meanings of each card isn’t necessary, even if there is much value and wisdom to be gained from them. Your intuition holds the key to learning how to interpret tarot cards. And this makes sense given that they are instruments for receiving and deciphering messages from the universe or our inner selves. Get the best advice from readers below to learn how to read tarot cards for yourself instinctively and without memorization.
How do you determine your future?
Astromancy, horary astrology, pendulum reading, spirit board reading, tasseography (reading tea leaves in a cup), cartomancy (fortune telling with cards), tarot card reading, crystallomancy (reading of a crystal sphere), and chiromancy are examples of common fortune-telling techniques used in Europe and the Americas (palmistry, reading of the palms). The latter three are traditionally linked to the Roma and Sinti people in popular culture.
A different type of fortune telling, often known as a “reading” or “spiritual consultation,” does not rely on any particular tools or techniques but instead relies on the practitioner giving the client counsel and predictions that are purported to have been given by spirits or in visions.
- By interpreting atmospheric conditions, we do aeromancy.
- Alectromancy: by watching a rooster eat some grain.
- Using flour for aleuromancy.
- Astrology: based on the motions of the stars.
- By the stars: astrology.
- Augury: caused by bird flying.
- By the hour, day, month, and year of birth, or the four pillars of Bazi.
- Bibliomancy is the study of books, usually but not always religious works.
- Using playing cards, tarot cards, or oracle cards is known as cartomancy.
- Using patterns in melting or dripping wax, ceromancy.
- Chiromancy: based on the lines on the palms and the shape of the hands.
- By determining auspicious and unlucky days, chronomancy.
- Clairvoyance: the use of inner sight or spiritual vision.
- Cleromancy: the casting of bones or stones, or the drawing of lots.
- Using audible and visual cues to do cold reading.
- Scrying is another name for the practice of crystallomancy.
- Extispicy: involving animal organs.
- Through variances in face and head shape, one may read a person’s face.
- By earthy harmony, says feng shui.
- Gastromancy: using ventriloquism on the stomach (historically).
- Markings in the ground, sand, dirt, or soil are used in geomancy.
- Haruspicy: by the livers of animals offered as sacrifices.
- Astrology at the moment the question was posed is known as horary astrology.
- by water, or hydromancy.
- Using yarrow stalks, coins, and the I Ching, one can perform a divination.
- Using numbered bamboo sticks that are shaken out of a tube, Kau cim.
- Lithomancy: using jewels or stones.
- molten metal thrown into cold water to induce molybdomancy
- By moles, scars, or other physical characteristics, naeviology
- Necromancy: performed by the dead, by their spirits, or by their souls.
- Nephomancy: using cloud forms.
- by numbers, or numerology.
- Oneiromancy: dream magic.
- naming: nomenclature.
- Lines and bumps on the hand are used in palmistry.
- By parakeets picking up tarot cards, parrot astrology
- Origami is a popular medium for fortune-telling games.
- Pendulum reading: using an object hanging and tracking its motions.
- Pyromancy: using fire as a medium.
- Rhabdomancy is rod-based divination.
- using runes for runecasting or runic divination.
- By gazing into or into reflected objects, or scrying.
- Planchette or talking board for a spirit board.
- Taromancy: Tarot card use is a sort of cartomancy.
- Using coffee or tea grounds for tasseography or tasseomancy.
What should you do initially while using a Tarot deck?
What to Do First:
- Get out your tarot deck.
- The cards are in your hand.
- “Knock or tap the pile of cards numerous times while holding them in your palm to disseminate your energy throughout the deck.
- Shuffle the cards completely.
- The cards are divided into three heaps, which are subsequently reassembled into one pile.
After a breakup
Draw one card for each of the following inquiries if you’ve recently broken up with someone and want to know more about the reason or determine whether you’ll get back together:
- How energetic is the partnership right now?
- What caused the divide in the first place?
- What do they really think of me right now?
- What do they intend for me right now?
- What kind of relationship will this be in the future?
- Which action is ideal for me to take right now?
When job searching
You can use this spread to explore what kind of career guidance the tarot can offer if you’re feeling uncertain about your career path or thinking about a new employment. Draw one card once more for each query.
- How active am I in my career right now?
- What challenge must I overcome?
- What is my calling in life?
- How can I follow this calling more closely?
- What should I do to prepare for the upcoming month?
When deciding between two options
This spread can highlight the benefits and drawbacks of each option, guiding you toward the best decision if you’re using tarot to pick between two possibilities (two job offers, two apartments, perhaps a love triangle???). Getting the deal Per card, ask one question.
- What is the fundamental cause of this fork in the road?
- What is the likely result of choosing option A?
- What is the most likely result for option B?
- What more should I take into account that was overlooked?
- What’s the best thing I can do right now?
When something is off with a friend
If you’re concerned about the state of a friendship or feel like something is wrong but are unable to pinpoint the cause, you might be interested in seeing what conclusions and solutions this spread offers. Ask one question per card, once more, I repeat.
- What makes this friendship so crucial?
- What led to this sudden change in tone, and why?
- What has changed, in my friend’s opinion?
- What can I do to make this matter more urgent?
- What is the future of this friendship?
- What should I do at this moment?
How are Tarot cards charged?
Leave your deck in a sacred location where you can “knead (shuffle) it each hour, giving it your magical power with your hands, for one waking day, much as you would a loaf of rising bread.” The greatest time to use this charge is when you’re taking a day off at home or in a retreat.
Questions you don’t really want answered
Even though it might seem apparent, it’s advisable to refrain from asking the tarot cards questions that you aren’t prepared to hear the answers to. That’s because answers to these questions can reveal information you’re just not quite ready to hear.
“Tarot can definitely come off as offensive if you’re not willing to hear the truth or consider an opposing opinion. Tarot reading Nicole Fortunaso
According to tarot reader and life coach Nicole Fortunaso, “tarot may truly come out as offensive if you are not willing to hear the truth of the problem or look at an alternate viewpoint.” She advises analyzing why you’re reacting the way you are in order to reflect on how to effectively address the underlying problem if you ask the question and aren’t satisfied with the response.
You *Just* Had a Tarot Reading
Unless the reading is about a completely new and specific subject, I suggest waiting at least three months between professional tarot readings. Before returning to the cards, let things to develop and alter.
You Want a Redo
I frequently observe people attempting to “chase the right answer.” People will visit several tarot readers or ask the same question repeatedly to the same tarot reading until they receive the response they desire (which, by the law of averages, does happen eventually). This is basically useless!
Your Question Is About Someone Else
Tarot readings are not the solution if your entire line of inquiry is about another person’s thoughts and actions (such as what your ex is up to). Tarot is meant to help you gain understanding of *yourself,* not other people. (A better option would be to reconsider and rephrase your query as if you were looking for help on how to move past your split.)
You’re Looking for Medical Advice
Simply said, neither physical nor mental health concerns can be diagnosed or treated using the cards. Some things are better left in the hands of medical specialists rather than tarot readers!
How are tarot cards purified?
Here are four simple steps to purifying tarot cards.
- Meditate. Simply unwind for a moment and get rid of all your thoughts.
- Pass each card through the smoke after burning sage.
- Place bay leaves within the deck of cards.
- And for protection, place a crystal on top.