This certainly isn’t witchy wisdom, but it’s something I just realized, after a couple of weeks of bewilderment and frustration.
I had read that beginners could do a daily tarot reading, just drawing one card and seeing what it tells you, as one way of becoming familiar with the cards.
Well let me just say, they weren’t telling me anything. I couldn’t see how they would relate to me in any way, shape or form.
But, I found out today – you’re supposed to ask a question when you pull a tarot card, and not just pull a card with no direction. Well duh! It seems obvious now, but for two weeks I have been pulling random cards and then thinking “wtf…?”
Then I wondered what sort of questions to ask, my mind was a complete blank, but I found a site with a list of 99 questions related to your own path, career and finances, love and relationships, friends and family and health. So all is well. Hopefully the cards will start to make more sense in future and with any luck I will discover that I have a grain of intuition (at the moment I don’t think I have any)
You don’t HAVE to ask questions before you pull a card. You can use them as meditation. Learning and understanding the meaning of the card can give you something to reflect on.
Have you seen the course on learning tarot? If not, it may be helpful to you.
If you wanted practice pulling tarot daily, there is a month-long tarot challenge where there is a different prompt each day that you answer with a card pull.
I like to do a 4 card spread at the start of the day - the first is the overall outlook for the day, the second is what crosses my path today, the third is Yesterday’s unfinished business and the fourth is upcoming goals and objectives.
The list of questions sounds like a good option as well and is a great place to start!
Tarot and intuition take practice to learn and strengthen those skills so don’t be too hard on yourself. We are all learning and growing.
Usually when I suggest that someone learning tarot pull a card a day, it’s not necessarily to apply that card to their day or to a question. Instead, it’s a good way to get daily exposure to the cards and learn about their meanings. This can be a much more effective way of learning to read the cards and recognize the symbols than sitting down and trying to memorize 78 different cards and symbols all at once, and double that if you’re reading reversals!
Runes are fairly similar, though I have no experience reading them. We do have a course on Runes here on Spells8, as well as a whole tag full of information to get you started when you get your runes
Hi. I’m currently only into meditation although I’ve dabbled with my altar and learning the tools. I started using a tarot pull to guide my thoughts after my initial meditation. It gives me something to think about and I don’t take it as a divination. I agree that sometimes pulling a card doesn’t help but it does help me learn the cards.
I also do a simple four card draw (past, current, future, what is blocking). That does make me think about my life. I sometimes get a draw that is off a lot - either too positive or too negative. That still works for me because I still get to think about it.
Here is one I did a week or so back. It is the 8 of Swords and it is pretty negative but I used it to think about my approach to normal things and how I was a bit different than that. The next day I got Justice and kinda had to go the other way with my thoughts. In any case, I use them as prompts and thought provokers.
In any case, I use them as prompts and thought provokers.