They have their roots in something called Il Trionfos, or Triumph cards. The cards were said to have originated around the early to mid-1400s in Northern Italy. People have turned to tarot for hundreds of years, which comforts me I love that something can remain so sacred throughout time. How do the images make me feel? What is the lesson that I find myself falling into after pulling a tarot card or cards? What do the colors say to me? Are there recurring themes? What is the history of tarot? I’ll read the deck’s guidebooks, but I also use my intuition and knowledge of symbols when interpreting the cards. I usually pull a card for myself before bed or right when I wake up, depending on my need for clarity. The tarot card meanings that come with each individual deck are certainly something I'll take into account (I personally work with The Wild Unknown, as the animal and natural spirit of the deck speaks to me more than human figures do), too. If I'm alone, I'll pull a single tarot card with a specific focus on themes like, say, expansion, transformation, or healing (#Scorpio here). When tarot is practiced on a regular and continuing basis, you start to see recurring themes and patterns and messages and thus you start to notice obstacles as well as strengths, and therein lie our answers, I believe. I do not believe that our fates are entirely pre-scripted or set in stone or that we are solely at the mercy of the heaven's transits but I DO think there are ways in which we can use tarot to arm ourselves for future issues that present themselves. In fact, writer, Strega, tarot reader (and my Astrolushes podcast co-host!) Andi Talarico put it beautifully:ĭo I use tarot as divination or reflection? The short answer is both, for sure, though I'm less concerned with fortune-telling than I am with assessing the circumstances that brought us to this moment in time - hence the reflection. In either case, it's divinatory in some sense. I don't personally believe that the tarot cards are in communication with some divine force, deity, ancestor or Spirit (although many people do, and that's awesome), but I do believe that pulling a card randomly generates a message or lesson on which I can reflect. I was recently invited to The Witches Almanac Witches Masquerade Ball in Massachusetts (alongside Laura Tempest Zakroff, Christopher Penczak, and Harold Roth), where I received two tarot readings that essentially amounted to one lesson I’d been putting off learning: Stop only identifying with and relying so heavily on the dark you forget to let the light in. Valente’s tarot horoscopes.įor the longest time, I've turned to tarot cards - usually read by someone else for me - to seek wisdom. Also be sure to read all of our tarot content, including Joanna C. Also, please make sure you check out The Hoodwitch. And if you’re looking for an inclusive, healing deck, here are some excellent resources for the tarot enthusiast or the curious. In fact, some of my favorite books are approaching tarot as a healing tool - like the new Tarot for Self Care by Minerva Siegel and Tarot for Troubled Times by Theresa Reed and Shaheen Miro. I've always been intrigued by tarot cards, especially as they relate to tarot for self-care and introspection.
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