A great way to get to know your cards is to actually put yourself in the cards. Whether stepping into the cards as part of a meditation or assuming the position of a person or object in the card, you can learn a lot about the card and its meanings.

Here is a short narrative piece from a Tarot meetup about the Moon card. I write as if I am the Moon in the card, describing all I see around me:

“I look down onto a blue sea and mountain range. There are two towers below, as well as a wolf and a crayfish on a stone landing. The feeling is calm as the waves rhythmically crash against the shore where the animals stand. The air is cool.

The animals stand expectantly and guarded, as if the alone offer passage into the sea to reach the towers and mountains beyond.

I hang heavy and low in the sky and silently work with the sea below as I make the tide come in and go out. My movements are cyclical as are the cycles of the sea’s tides. Though we seem like two very separate entities, we are tied closely together in our cycles. Grays and blues are I see. Visibility may be limited but I know the sky and sea are deeper than they seem.”

This narrative is a bit rough but for 10 minutes worth of journaling time I uncovered meanings in this card that hadn’t occured to me before.

Have you done a journaling exercise where you wrote as someone/something in the card? How did that entry reveal meaning to you? I think doing this exercise for each card is an excellent way to not only get to know your deck better but to also intuitively learn new meanings and associations.