Learning Tarot: The Importance of the Card a Day Reading
From the book: The Double Oh Fool Guide to Tarot Mastery, by Jim Larsen
So, you have decided to learn how to read Tarot cards and are wondering what are some ways to understand the meaning of the cards. Consider this- one of the best favors you can do for yourself as a tarot card reader is the card a day reading. This is as exactly as it sounds. Every morning, pick a card. Do so with the intention of knowing what energy to expect in the day ahead. Look at this card. Examine this card. Meditate on the meaning of this card. As you go through the day, reflect on how this card is playing out for you. For example, did you pick The Fool? Ponder how The Fool’s energy of openness to new ideas and his propensity for leaps of faith are manifesting for you. Are you open to The Fool’s energy and lessons?
Not sure what the card means? Look up its meanings. Do a Google search on the card. There are many sights devoted to tarot card interpretations. Buy a book on meanings. There are many out there. Do the pack of cards you own have a small booklet with it to briefly explain the cards? Look up the meaning. Look it up as often as it takes to understand it.
It is great to keep a journal of your card a day drawings. Write what your card a day is, and what you expect from that card. What are your meditations on this card? What are your knowings of it? At the end of the day, how did the card play out for you? Where you cognizant of how this card represented its self to you?
Is there a particular card that repeatedly comes up for you in your card a day readings? If so, what does this suggest to you? Perhaps it is telling you to once and for all embrace the energy of the card. Become that particular archetype. Accept the challenges, lessons, and the joy that this card can bring.
Does this frequently pulled card change over time? If you continually pulled one card, does it change in time to another as you absorb the lessons of each from the past? What does this tell you about your evolution? Keep a journal of this. You will thank yourself in the months and years ahead that you read the cards.
In many ways, this becomes your history, the story of your evolution. Mastering the cards will bring about many changes in your life, particularly in terms of how perceive yourself and others. In time, you will categorize your attitudes, other people, and situations in terms of the archetypes. Perhaps you will meet somebody, and sum them up as a King of Wands type, or a natural born Empress. Perhaps you will have a job interview and consider it a total 9 of wands ordeal, although you were hoping for the strength of The Lovers.. Perhaps you will feel like you are having a Strength day, needing to tap into that energy a little extra.
This is much of the strength you will amass as a reader, and recording your card of the day readings will help you track such progress. It will also grant you the opportunity to track how and when your journey through life alters. Does a new relationship or friendship develop? How did your card a day drawings change to reflect it? New job? New family? New hobby? What are the cards telling you about these things? What else can you think of in your own life that the cards may reflect?
Consider too how the cards reflect problems you may encounter in life. Do you feel they are giving you advice on how to get past difficulties? How so? Pay attention to the cards you draw when you are going through a difficult period in life. They offer much guidance on overcoming hard times.
Keep up with your card a day readings. Absorb the meaning of each card. Journal your thoughts and your feelings of each card, tracking how they reflect in the day you have just had. What have you learned from this? How do your feelings and reactions change over time in consideration of any particular card? Be mindful of this. This is how you will grow and prosper as a tarot card reader.
