Hello Steemians!
As I mentioned in my introduction post, I have a deep love of Tarot and have had the pleasure to read professionally for many clients over the years. I don’t anymore because my focus has shifted to using Tarot personally for fiction writing, poetry, and the occasional blog topic. Nonetheless, since Steemit is all about sharing with others what we are passionate about, I am starting off a Tarot Series. I hope you enjoy it and stay with me as there are a lot of cards to cover!
For this series, I am going to assume that you know nothing of Tarot, and perhaps this may peek your curiosity to buy your own tarot deck and play with it. Tarot cards are a universal language and their images invoke a collective patterning that we all share through the archetypes. Through these archetypes, we can find guidance on how to personally transform our lives.
Please don’t be afraid, no scary ghosts are going to come and take possession of you. But you may invite your Spirit guides and dearly departed loved ones to see this as an opportunity to reach out and say hello. Below I want to share some tarot tips in the event you decide, why the heck not! I’m going out to buy a deck.
Rider-Waite is the best for beginners. But this deck even now is my personal go-to deck for all my readings.
Buy a Rider-Waite deck, an Amethyst crystal, White Sage, Palo Santo and a candle. Before you start playing with the deck, there are some things that are important to do first. Light the candle to your favorite saint, angel or anyone else you pray to. If not, that is okay, just light a candle, take three deep breaths and light up some of the White Sage and Palo Santo.
Amethyst is known for its qualities to enhance the meditative trance state and is one of the best crystals to have around you when reading tarot.
Take your new cards and pass them through the smoke this consecrates them for your use. Ask your saint, angel or spirit guide to bless your cards. But if you don’t have anyone you connect with simply hold the cards in your hands and ask your own Spirit self to bless the cards for you.
You’ve consecrated it, now shuffle the deck! And dive right in. Or if you want to take it one step further, wrap your tarot cards in a silk scarf and place them under your pillow or by your bedside for seven days. Tarot cards have a unique flavor all their own. You want to make a personal connection with the deck. It will aid in reading them later.
Take the Amethyst crystal and place it over your stomach for ten to fifteen minutes for three days. Next place the crystal over your heart for ten to fifteen minutes for another three days. On the last day place the crystal over your forehead. Psychics, mystics, and yogis call this center the third eye. But what the third eye actually refers to is the Pineal gland in our brain, the center known to produce DMT.
It doesn’t matter if you are a beginner, intermediate or an advanced tarot reader; one of the tools that will immensely help you on your journey is keeping a journal.
MSN has a great tool called "One Note". It’s a great tool to keep all your notes handy and organized online and you can download the app and work on it offline. So, in case your computer crashes and we all know how much that can suck, you will still have your notes saved. Create an email and start using it you’ll be glad you did.
Or maybe you prefer to record with audio or video or buy a journal and write your thoughts. Do it, however, best suits you.
You may ask why the importance of keeping a journal?
From my many years of working with tarot on a deeply personal and professional level, Tarot allows you to access the process you are undergoing as a soul in this physical world. You’ll be able to observe past patterns and influences that are hurting or helping you now, as well as see what may result in the future and this is based on the current pattern happening in your life. Future is not set in stone and that is empowering as it gives you the foreknowledge to embrace something or let it go.
A journal allows you to record this process and any special insights. For beginners, rather than run and try to memorize all the meanings, from someone else. I encourage you instead to use one card daily.
Study its colors, its numbers; record any feelings that are stirred in your body as you look at the imagery. See if you can pick up on any smells, hear the name of a crystal or herb? Do you hear a specific line of a song come up as you look at the card?
Are you receiving any insights about the card? Write it down. After you are done, you can research on google and read about the properties of herbs, crystals, numbers, and colors.
Come across a card you are struggling with? Give yourself some time; it may just be that your subconscious is still processing the imagery. If you find it still too difficult then there are plenty of websites that write about the meanings. You can read their insights and pay attention to the parts that feel “right” for you. Those feelings are most telling and can shed insight on what the card is advising you.
See we all have our own unique flavor in our approach to how we see and experience things. If you choose to engage with the Tarot cards, keeping a journal will most certainly allow you to discover your own unique approach.
It also serves to bring you deeper into your body, heal your relationship with your intuition, expand your consciousness and ground your knowing.
So, go on and get crackin’! and as always laugh and have fun!!
All the Best, 
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