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Today's Tarot Card of the Day
About a week ago, I finally stopped being lazy & started drawing daily cards in the morning. While drawing them at night was a nice twist on the practice, the benefit of a morning draw for your day has proved very insightful so far.
Morning Drawing Method:
- In the morning (usually while I’m waiting for my flat iron to heat up), I’ll draw 2 cards, one from my Tarot deck (Mystic Dreamer) & one from my oracle deck (Enchanted Oracle). While shuffling, I repeat: “Tarot/Oracle card of the day, guide me & show me the way.”
- After picking my cards, I write them down in a small note book. For example, today’s entry looks like “5/8/09 Friday – 4 of Wands & Emerald Princess”
- If I’m unclear as to the meaning of my oracle card (the names can be so random) I’ll read the page about the card and go on about my day.
- In the evening, I’ll go back to my notebook and jot down events, thoughts & goals that happened that day and explore how they correlate to one or both cards, which has happened in surprising ways.
So far, I’ve found that by drawing 2 cards, I gain insight to 2 different areas of my life. Recently I’ve noticed that the Tarot card I draw usually refers to external events, interactions with other people, things at work, etc whereas my Oracle card often reflects things that I’m thinking about or working on internally.
Do you draw cards daily? From what decks? How do the cards reflect what’s going on in your life?
After a bit of a hectic hiatus from Tarot (and this blog), the call to return to the cards is too loud to bear & my Tarot interest has now turned to reading for profit. I dare say that I’ll be reading “professionally” because to me that stereotypically equates to decades of study and I’m only barely 2 decades old myself!
However, I have been studying Tarot for years & I feel confident in my ability to read for clients & I deserve to be compensated for my work, time & knowledge. Making money is ok! I used to be really hung up on the idea of reading for payment but I’ve come to see that it’s perfectly fair when you represent yourself honestly & ethically. While I’d never be able to charge my close friends for readings, friends of friends are fair game.
Do you read professionally? Do you charge? How did you come to get started reading for payment? Share your stories in the comments!
Two of Cups from the Revelations Tarot
Since I began reading Tarot, I’ve always read reversals. I think this was mostly due in part to my first deck being the Revelations Tarot, which have 2 pictures on each card – one for upright and another picture that was flipped to be seen reversed. Using this deck, it didn’t make sense not to read reversals since that was a clear intent of the artist/creator. (Other readers have had issues wrapping their mind around this deck. As a newb, I gave Wong’s method a try without worrying about “traditional reversal meanings” for better or worse).
I’d heard of others not using reversals but when I read Mary K. Greer’s beloved “Tarot for Your Self” she backed up the reading of reversals; (bad paraphrase:) if the position of a card in a spread means something, then why not the position in which the card lands? MKG also wrote the book on Tarot Reversals (literaly).
As I’ve begun to involve myself in the wider Tarot community, I find that reading reversals is not very trendy at all. Since I’ve never been able to ignore reversals, and the fact that there seems to be something about it that everyone loves (easier to read? 
) I’d like to go a time without reading reversals. The belief behind this is that there are enough “negative” and “positive” cards to balance the deck – why overdo the often negative aspect of reversals into a reading?
The experiment begins as of this post. Time to go flip all my decks right-side up!
Also, Arwen’s running a contest on her blog – go comment to win a free reading with the creator of the new Quantum Tarot deck!
