I can’t tell you how I think this whole thing works (Jung probably had some brilliant ideas – re. synchronicity), I just know from experience that it works! It doesn’t seem to matter if you believe in it or not. If you do one thing or another. It just always seems to work. I think that probably the best way to get through what you’re…[Read more]

So I’m extremely new to tarot, but I’ve been working off of the basic assumption that I am, in fact, finding what I want/need in the cards more so than drawing the “correct” cards. That’s the explanation I feel like I can trust pretty easily. I’m also really okay with that as an explanation, personally – being prompted to use a card to think…[Read more]

thanks, Elisabeth and Jane, for your input! very helpful. i also wanted to mention that i texted a friend about this today, about “how it works,” and her response was “it’s magic, dood.” and i was like, oh, ok, that i can get down with! and then the spread i just did (one of the more in-depth ones i’ve done) was one of my best yet. there is…[Read more]

Hi Teja, when I first started reading with tarot cards I wasn’t so sure as well if what I’m doing is right. What helped me get over this hump was realising that in tarot, there is no right or wrong, only what is. I’m quite analytical too (but have a strong intuition—well it’s not necessarily one or the other so I digress) and I just read, based o…[Read more]

I totally know what you mean! There’s definitely a certain magic to the tarot, but I have also satisfied my analytical side, especially when it comes to readings for myself. My theory is that I could pick any given card for any given day, and find some kind of meaning in it relative to my day or my question. Tarot is a tool which can help us…[Read more]

Hi Teja! I struggled with this too when I started, and still do from time to time. One way that’s helped me frame it is to approach the tarot from a very down-to-earth, almost pop-psychology perspective. Look at it as a way to facilitate having a conversation with yourself – a sort of free-association game. Or think of a Rorschach test: you look…[Read more]