Friday, March 14, 2025

7 Things Beginner Tarot Readers & Tarot Enthusiasts Need to Know Before Venturing into the World of Tarot Cards


7 Things Beginner Tarot Readers & Tarot Enthusiasts Need to Know Before Venturing into the World of Tarot Cards

 

Colorful drawing of a person holding a large card with their left hand, while the other one holds a wand that is pointed to an open double door with multicolor swirls of energy around it and a symbol of the sun on top.
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  1. Why you want your first tarot decks to be RWS and with Human Figures.


  1. Tarot Readings at 3 Hierarchical Levels: Creative Writing Tarot Reading, Psychological Journaling Tarot Reading and Oracular Tarot Readings.


  1. Fall in Love Slowly and Deeply with the complete Tarot Artwork before you buy each new tarot deck.


  1. Meditate on your real budget before planning a new room for the collection of tarot decks you plan to amass.


  1. Ideally how many tarot decks should a beginner tarot enthusiast get?


  1. Triangulation. What is it? How can it upscale your tarot readings at all reading levels and hierarchies? 


  1. Most Valuable Tips for Beginner Tarot Readers I wish I knew 17 years ago




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17 years ago, I was as committed as I was overwhelmed by how to learn to read tarot cards for myself and for others. So much information…where to start? 


Here is my 101 Introduction on Reading Tarot Cards for Beginners that I wished I knew 17 years ago.


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Why you want your first tarot decks to be RWS and with Human Figures, as opposed to Unicorns, Cats, Dogs, Abstract Art, Trees, Herbs, Animals, Dragons, etc.?



Traditional drawing of the Two of Cups Tarot Card from the original 1909 Rider Waite Smith artwork. This shows a woman and a man, standing up very close to each other, looking into their eyes, about to share a sip from each other's cup, as in the act of marrying. A winged lion head and a Caduceus is perched floating over them.
2 of Cups - Original RWS 
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A drawing of a woman and a man in an embrace, while each holds a cup. The caduceus symbol of a lion's head with wings is perched above the couple.
2 of Cups - RWS Llewellyn
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Drawing shows a couple in a strong embrace about the kiss each other, while the man holds the woman close to kiss her lips. Flowers are drawn around them. There are two golden cups in from of them with a glowy light that seems to connect them as in a shape of an arc over them.
2 of Cups - RWS (Inspired) Cosmic Tarot
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Why do you want there to be human beings in your tarot cards that you can see, like, relate to, and want to know more about them and the setting they are in? Because that is one of the key lines and layers that make tarot cards an animal of a different feather than ouija boards in the spiritual sense. Tarot cards if you look at them closely, are depicting people like you and me doing regular things, for the most part, that is. Ok, we do not go around hugging lions by the neck as the Strength Card, like if they were our own Golden Retriever, but in general, tarot cards seem contemporary to almost everyone. 


That is one of the layers of tarot, that the whole topic is about human beings and their experiences in the World, depicted through drawings of archetypal human beings in archetypical locations. Kings, Queens, Peasants, Jokers, Magicians, Lovers, Mother Empress, Father Emperor, Priests, Devils, Sun, Moon, Star, World, work, celebrations, agreements, marriages, kingdoms, picnics, agriculture, architecture, voyages, charity, poverty, wealth, competitions, decisions, joy, unconditional love, heartache, obsessions, excess, fears and anxieties, melancholy, victory, drive, ambition, greed, compassion, among others.


Every character has a facial expression that subtly indicates their feelings, yet they are only but soft indications of facial features as to give enough leeway for the reader to project on them a type of human feelings Rorschach Test. We project on each card that which is on our minds. Be it that we are conscious of the exercise or not conscious at all. Now, apart from the subconscious mind, we also find our rich imaginations can intermingle or coincide with our emotional inner maps in some parts, but not intrinsically in all. 


Our imagination allows us to place ourselves in other people’s shoes and dilemmas, which is what we cognitively engage in when reading fairy tales or fictional engaging novels, or in our interpersonal relationships when we want to understand other people’s point of view. A lot of our learning social processes are learned through our imagination, it is the way in which we can exercise our brains and how we navigate social complex thought analysis of acceptable and pleasant to us and to others, social behavior.



Reading Tarot in 3 Hierarchical Levels



As a beginner tarot reader, you alone are to determine how you wish to approach tarot, if you want to dive deep in all of its levels of reading it, or if only one of them resonates. That being said, chances are, unless you are a tarot card born virtuoso, you will learn tarot in layers of depth and hierarchy.


0 The first level of Tarot Card Reading is the same as the one applied in understanding and learning another language, program, game or system:  learn the parts, elements, structure, then the rules or dynamics of a system, and then try to play the rules yourself with coaching until you get comfortable communicating with it and being understood with it. See examples, practice, get coached, practice more until you feel at ease with it and are satisfied with your expected results when using it. Keep learning about the system, the meanings, the structures. Believe me, it never ends. Tarot is like a magical infinite onion of layers and meanings.


Just like the first card of the Tarot Deck, The Fool, we all feel foolish, or excited, or a combination of both, when venturing into new territories or doing new things we have not mastered yet or are just being introduced to. A step in the starry dark. We want to go forward, we want to understand, we feel compelled to understand and give it a try. The sacrifice is that we must be willing to play the Fools. To take it lightly, to take wrong turns, to take good turns, but most of all to learn. Practice the art of taking the leap of Faith of the Fool, happily, positively, excitedly, confident Providence will guide you well. Retrace your steps when you feel you lost it. Take a break in the road if you are overwhelmed. Maybe revisit it days after, months or not at all. It’s a path to follow with faith and intuition alone.

    
                                                                                        
A young traveler with a bright sun behind his head, with a white dog following intently at the edge of a cliff, symbolizing new beginnings and spiritual potential.
The Fool - RWS Luminous Tarot - In the process of creation
Link to the Authors Website



Creative Writing Tarot Reading 



For example, you can choose to use tarot on its first basic level as a toolbox of idea prompts to get inspiration to write creative short stories, or a book, or to get ideas for your creative blog, or creative marketing techniques. My best tried and true recommendation is to first brainstorm what you want to create, content, story, etc. Do your research and take notes. Then pull out the cards and start threading a storyline. This will get the creative juices flowing. Don't expect the cards by themselves just to pop up with the ideas. Let the images guide the research you have made, and from them, create the story or creative writing that is being created by your imagination.



Psychological Tarot Reading Journaling



The second layer of Tarot in regard to depth and complexity, would be to use it for personal psychological insight. You can use tarot cards to journal and reach your subconscious mind as much as you can, as well as to meet the content of your imagination. You must practice and learn to separate one from the other. Tarot cards can be used as a prompt to reflect on how you feel about certain topics you have a nag on, and you want to try to dig deeper in a journaling manner with creative writing or even by using automatic writing techniques. 


Using the third person to relay a traumatic event as if it is happening to someone else and you try to explain how they might feel using tarot card prompts, could be a healing creative technique. After all, art therapy and classical drawing therapies for children that underwent traumatic experiences, rely on techniques such as this. Through the use of tarot cards, you can bypass your logical mind to access emotional dark or hidden corners of actual memories, or maybe just of made-up fears.  


You could decide to use random cards or to address specific ones that could enable the journaling conversation you require to do with your own self or combine random and handpicked cards for your journaling experience.


Don’t obsess, don’t overdo it.

                                                                
                                                                    

A woman on a kitchen table with a journal in front of her, in deep mediation with eyes closed and a peaceful face, representing thoughtful journaling.

 


Therapeutic Vision Boards with Tarot Cards

 

You could also use tarot cards for a collage therapy or vision boards along with other resonant images, photos, keywords, magazine photo stocks relevant to you, hand drawn artwork, and create with all of these a powerful creative collage for healing your inner child, for making amends with your childhood and the kid you used to be. You can create an homage to a departed loved one that was a transformational force in your life. You could create a powerful vision board for how you want your future life to feel and possibly look like. 


March 29th of 2025 is, by the way, a phenomenally magical and powerful day to create a vision board. You could also create a collage with tarot cards and other artistic prompts to heal your broken heart, to realign to how a beautiful and respectful romantic relationship would feel like with the use of photos, poems, quotes, that depict how a nice relationship feels and looks like, to you. Don’t be too deterministically specific or materialistic as in “they better drive this car, or be this size, or be my toxic ex, or this person I have an eye on or no one else”.


Think more spiritually here, not that good finances are not spiritual, but that they are aligned with good wholesome things. Maybe a red brick home means a lot to you, maybe living by the beachfront is your dream come true, nothing wrong with that of course, if that is what resonates with your soul. The stronger the topic is soulful to you, honestly, the higher magical chances of you tuning yourself into that frequency, aligning to it, working for it, in a peaceful non-struggling manner. Put your inspiration to it, seed it, but then let the vision board just be. What would be for you, would be, what would not, will realign you to what is, as long as you keep softly and consciously aligning to how you want your life to feel like.


A vision board does not need to be too grandiose or address deep emotional trauma work, you can also create a vision board of gratefulness and add into it all that you are grateful for. Use lots of actual life photos, quotes, text, moments, and use tarot cards as reinforcing cards of what you are grateful for or how you feel. Make it heartful.


Four images representing Vision Board desires. The first one has a woman in overalls standing next to a Jeep. The 2nd shows a wood cabin in the woods. The 3rd shows a couple on a safari by the river with their dogs. The 4th shows a camping scene in a forest at night with a campfire in the middle.
Fill your Vision Board with Digital Art, Vision Board Image Albums, Photos, Quotes, Words, Desires, Feelings and Tarot Cards to Match the Energy you Want to invite in your Life.




Here are some powerful examples:


Work, craft or project: 8 of pentacles and Ace of Pentacles. Being healthy: Star Card, Temperance, Sun. Happy Family Life: 10 of Cups, 4 of Wands, Sun Card. Your determination in long term projects: 8 of Pentacles, 10 of Wands, 3 of Wands, Queen or King of Pentacles. Your milestones as a Mom or Business Boss: Empress, Queen of Cups, Queen of Pentacles, 10 of Cups and 10 of Pentacles. As a dad: King of Cups, Emperor, 6 of Cups, 10 of Pentacles and 10 of Cups. Your loving family, that's easy of course, 10 of Cups. Your family's legacy or family business: 10 of Pentacles. Your romantic life: 2 of Cups and Ace of Cups, Lovers, Sun. Your resilience: 9 of Wands. Your entrepreneurship success: 9 of Pentacles. Sorting out a difficult situation with lots of intelligence: Queen or King of Swords as well as King and Queen of Wands. Solving a conundrum with ingenuity and skill and turning it in your favor: King of Swords, Magician, Chariot.


                                                                            

Image of three different Ten of Cups Tarot Cards from three different Tarot Decks. All three show happy couples and a rainbow behind them.
10 of Cups Aquarian Tarot - Morgan Greer - Original RWS (Click on Image for more Information 



If you buy tarot decks for a collage you want to use to glue, cut, glitter or bedazzle which might not be pristine for tarot reading afterwards, then go for the least expensive ones, or get them second hand, maybe you won't like all the cards, but you could use some. Check on Ebay or Craigslist or similar platforms in your area. If you like a tarot deck a lot and want to keep one for readings and the other for art collage prompts, well then get two. You could also print free copyright images and get creative with your Vision Board as you like without regrets or budget concerns.


Some tarot decks go out of print. Yes, they do, sadly. Sometimes it's the ones you never thought would. Big ones like the original RWS of 1909 likely will stand forever. But I already have a few in my collection of 54 tarot decks, which are out of print. If you love the artwork and love vision boards with the same passion, getting 2 of each is a good move. Just don't overdo it. If you plan to read tarot cards and also do collage, make sure you handle and keep the one for reading with more reverence than the one for a collage. 


The lore of tarot says if you do not treat the tarot deck as a sacred oracle, it will not act as such. You will decide on your own personal journey if this is so or not. Psychologically speaking, it makes sense. Magically, too. But, as I said before, there are exceptions to the rule for tarot readers on almost everything.




Oracular Tarot Reading Level



The oracular layer of tarot is the last to master (with exceptions to the rule). Tarot readings or oracular consultations are believed to be a spiritual practice that allows for a person true of heart, mind and soul to peek through the veil of the material life into the energetical records of the soul, created and sustained by the Godness-Creator-Energy. Many spiritual practices refer to this as the Akashic Records. Jung referred to it as the Collective Subconscious. Mircea Eliade said that human civilizations view certain naturally recurring symbols in a universal manner and that from this organic pattern of viewing energy forces, springs all spirituality.


The Tarot Reading at an Oracular Level can be achieved once you master to good measure most of the tarot card meanings, understand the difference between the energies and emotions related to the four elements, fire, water, air, earth, have covered basic numerology, and recognize repeating imagery as a significator that that topic has relevance to the question. Here you understand the structure, the pieces, the meanings and more or less the dance between them to create a storyline.


You must have graduated in the most part from Tarot in a Psychological Level and can usually distinguish the projections of your imagination and of your emotions. Even recognizing the subtle moves of the ego, identifying your hidden subconscious, your triggered ego patterns, when reading tarot cards. 


This means you have analyzed and have mapped relatively well, your inner emotional world and know the familiar places, the familiar archetypes that prompt certain thoughts or emotions in the story you see and can keep your cool headedness. This doesn't mean you have to have all your psychological ducks in order, because who does? but sufficiently enough that you do not drive yourself in circles with tarot cards because you have no control over the projections, fears, obsessions, insecurities or any other mental vices of the human mind.


This is also a very important aspect to address when considering reading tarot cards for others. Don't freak out about this if you're a chronic overthinker or are prone to anxiety or with strong perfectionist paralysis Virgo aspects, you probably can get to this level without being a perfect human being or undergo a decade of Psychotherapy. If you are able to put your mind in order when you work with other people in the Office, in University, in your family setting, in your business, etc., you understand what other people ask of you or require, and generally speaking, "gives sound advice is your second name", then you are a standard emotionally well rounded individual and can achieve to read tarot cards for others fairly quickly.


At this level you know how the structure works, and you understand the language and how it is created, sort of speaking. You also have a good hold of your ego, your emotions, your weaknesses, you do constant inner work and can hold yourself before acting out in a toxic manner because you felt triggered by what you think you understood from the cards or from the life of the querent that asks. You also get a good grip on not judging the other person on their questions, on their lifestyle, on their choices at a personal level, you just convey what the oracle conveys without adding your salt or pepper to it. 


You must really detach from projecting your psychological shadows on the tarot cards for yourself or for others when reading it consistently as an oracle. Grounding, meditating, mantras, inner work, prayer, music, incense, candles, a certain hour of the day, a sacred spot to do your readings, an altar, self-help or professional psychological help are all ways to train the mind to detach from the imagination, from the psychological projective outlet when you try to place your fingertips on the edges of the rivers of oracular advice without bias.




Four frames showing how to prepare to read tarot cards.  The first frame shows two people meditation in lotus position. The second frame shows a person meditating on the tarot spread in front of them in a desk. The third shows a crystal ball with a bright sun in the middle and colorful clouds, doves overhead, and two men trying to decipher the vision from the crystal ball. And the last frame shows a person with closed eyes and their third eye open, with tarot cards floating around them, to show they have deciphered their meaning, as in an epiphany.
Meditate to Quiet the Mind
Analyze the Cards
Divinate, trusting your Gut Feelings
Feel the energy and flow with it


Not everyone needs to reach this level of Oracular Tarot Reading. Neither level is better than the other. They all have their purpose and their transformational power. What I can confirm is that layering it in a hierarchical ladder of complexity is what works best and is the fastest way to learn solidly. I, however, can't guarantee that everyone can get to Oracular Level, or that they get at this level consistently. 


If you don't and still love tarot decks regardless, you can keep using them at their other levels, artistic and for journaling and insightful meditative practices. If you keep loving them and want to keep fishing at the edge of the oracular waters, you can provide general 1 or 2 card advice to yourself, friends or querents as a meditative practice. Short helpful general advice from random cards can be sometimes as magical and meaningful as a birth chart reading, or as deep as an oracular tarot reading. You might peek through the veil after a while, when you are ready. 


I agree with spiritual practices and philosophies that proclaim that sometimes the miraculous or supernatural blind us and completely distract us from doing and developing other types of psychological or material work required in our lives with more urgency. Even as a proficient oracular tarot diviner, the body and the self is still of this world, and balancing the duties, the gym work or walks, the bills, the business, the education, taxes, licenses, cleaning up the house, making money, being present for our loved ones, gardening, fixing the home, etc can be as important and magical as the supernatural in the oracular; and must be balanced well to live well.



Meditate on the Artwork and how it resonates to you aesthetically, emotionally and spiritually.


Images are very powerful magic, we know this from all perspectives of life really, from marketing, to art, to politics, to propaganda, to religion, to sigil or sympathetic magic, to Sociology to Psychology. The brain is greatly influenced by powerful images. Feng Shui is very wise in showing us we should surround ourselves with the vision of the healthy, harmonious, abundant, happy future we want. 


Obviously, life will throw curve balls of painful experiences, and those too have their reason and season in the life lessons of the soul. Which is precisely why we should enhance our lives the best we can, a safe harmonious happy shelter from a world that can get tough at times. So, by that, I mean, it's ok to purge on crisis or trauma collages with heavy tarot cards to process our traumas, but the imagery should always be followed by positive realignment and advancements after the hard times. In quick due time, the heavy imagery should be buried ceremonially to be released from our minds and from our Chi. 


We must not attach to the negative symbols and surround ourselves constantly with subtle invocations of what we do not want in respect to imagery we buy or keep.


Surround yourselves with things you want to see, feel or experience. With this I thread into the topic of the type of artwork I love for beginners and for my own personal collection. I love artwork that I can see was done with dedication and love for what they were doing. Creating a tarot deck is a process of creating 78 different paintings using the same symbols and scenarios, for the universal archetypes of human societies. Ideally, you should feel mesmerized by the artwork, and it should resonate with your heart and soul. The type of artwork that you feel you want to step into the world or scene that they portray. 


Of course, like in life, there are tarot cards you don't want to step into because they represent displeasure, such as: the 10 of Swords, 3 of Swords, 5 of Cups, 5 of Pentacles, sometimes the Devil depending how scary they draw the card, but neither should they feel like spells into the underworld of evilness or images that would haunt you forever.


Drawing shows a woman lying on the ground with ten swords stock into her, bleeding, which is a traditional depiction of the card, which represents that excess kills.
10 of Swords - Tarot of the Witches Garden
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Drawing of a woman with Ten Swords stock on her in a very grim image. The image is a reimagining of the Ten of Swords from Tarot, but this one is unrelated to any tarot deck created yet.

Digital Art unrelated to any real tarot deck


    As you transition from beginner to a more advanced tarot reader you might decide you want to move on to tarot decks with a bit more grit in their imagery and worlds portrayed. Maybe you become a collector and don't put all of your tarot decks into a rigorous energetic frequency litmus test or psychological symbolism review, and you might find yourself reading about your own fears or traumas in heavier darker tarot deck scenarios quite at ease. Maybe you end up preferring more Viking Rough Worlds of Ragnar, or more shadowy gothic vampiric tarots, or creepy Halloween topics. Or maybe you prefer Disney Villains to read up on the world where your villains or ego live.



Meditate on your Budget



A library with eight shelves of different tarot decks on all the available spaces.


Tarot Cards are one of those items that it is easy to binge by collecting on. Tarot Decks currently range from $10, $20, $25, $35 or higher if you reach into the Etsy Independent Tarot Artist Upper Shelves. Just visit the Tarot Nerds Facebook Page and check it out for yourself. It's a pretty fun group. 


The collections of tarots you can find there are outstanding. Frequent photos of the Tarot Nerds Collections are posted and are so fun to peek into. Good advice, such as to store your cards horizontally so that they don't arch with time. You can post a photo of a tarot card you saw somewhere, and you want to get it but don't know its name, and chances are some tarot nerds there knows which deck it belongs to. There are all sorts of discussions about everything tarot on that page. I recommend you check them out as a beginner.


I add this because tarot decks are just a click away in Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, US Games, Llewellyn, Ebay, Walmart as well as your small business tarot shops around your neighborhood. Basically, just a click away...I know...I still want to collect more but I also don't want to waste my hard-earned money on decks I might not like after all. I take my sweet time to decide on a buy and that way I feel I enjoy it best. Also, the material world, bills, food, meds, helping others comes first before building an unmanageable collection that looks and feels more like hoarding than a fun healthy collection. 


There are some tarot nerds that are overwhelmed by how many decks they got, seldom use them, ranging in 1000 or more units. 


Don't overdo it. 


I rarely do not do a full flip through of a tarot deck I liked, and then sit on it for weeks, months, sometimes years, depending on my tarot budget that year or how much I was sure I loved and resonated with that particular type of artwork. I particularly do make sure I feel I resonate with all the cards. I've opted out of buying popular trendy tarot decks because many cards were not resonating with me at all. But I am a particularly picky tarot collector. So ok, maybe you do not need to be this rigorous at the beginning. 


Do some research into RWS tarot decks, check some artwork, prompt Google to recommend tarot artwork for beginners, or check through my channel for flip through options. Make a decision and dive into tarot cards allowing yourself to make mistakes in the process of building your tarot collection or your perfect set of three chatty tarot decks.




How Many Tarot Decks Should a Beginner Enthusiast Get



My recommendation is to acquire a new or second hand, standard version of the RWS from 1909. There is a good reason why it is still the number one tarot deck in sales for 116 years. It is simple, relatable, easy, and mystically genius. 


Get either the original from US Games, or plastic version, the vintage, the neon, the pink, the muted colors, the glow in the dark, the golden pvc card, the standard inlaid with gold paper, a black and white version of the RWS. The artwork would be the same on all these, it is just colors, card stock, or color effects that would change. Pick the one that you are more drawn to.


The second tarot deck I would recommend for beginners would be something different than Coleman Smith Artwork, but still RWS in its symbolic structure and test of time popularity longevity, without leaving the RWS World. Some popular options are Morgan-Greer Tarot, Hanson Roberts Tarot, Juliet Sharman Burke Tarot or Ciro Marchetti Tarot.


The third tarot deck if you want to keep things simple, get a RWS that includes keywords. Even advanced readers can benefit from refreshing their keywords or themes for each card. Or get outside of the box with a RWS based tarot with an artistic thematic take that you find fun, collectible or amusing, and know a lot about.



Triqueta Drawing of three almond shaped leaves that interlock on their tips creating a three-petal flower design framed by a circle.
Triqueta Drawing by Dragoart.com Click on It for Link on How to Draw a Triqueta


Why not other Tarot Card structures other than RWS, for example: Thoth, Marseille, Oswald Wirth, Etielle, you would ask? Well, these are more complex ones and RWS is the best tarot structure for beginners and the preferred format of advanced tarot readers because of its easy to connect imagery. This has also contributed to the boom of new RWS format tarot inspired decks being created after 2000 with the digitalization of printing, designing, selling and marketing online. You could be an exception to the rule, true, but only you can figure this out by trial and error if you so feel inclined to venture into more advanced tarot formats than RWS.


Manage your two or three decks first, before you venture into becoming a collector. Ok, maybe you might buy one or two that didn't resonate. Keep them. Store them. Go back to them months, a year or years after. Your impression of a tarot deck that didn't initially resonate with you as a beginner, might change. If you go back to it and still feel nothing but a strong sense instead that you want to give it away or release it in whatever way you see fit, then do that. 


I feel the best step is a giveaway or to leave it at a secondhand bookstore as a donation. Or if you feel it has bad juju to it, and there are a few I feel this way with that I've seen only photos of, throw it in the trash and salt it. Discard it. That's it. Want to be sustainable about it, then put it in the recycle bin and visually it being composted and dissolved into nothing, sprinkle a very small dash of salt over it.



Triangulate with your Tarot Decks



Now, you might be thinking that 78 cards at a time is enough content for you to handle. It is, of course. Once you get the hold of the basic meanings of all the 78 tarot cards, the 4 elements and their suits, and the numerology; you will start seeing all tarot decks as the same structure, just with different artwork themes.


With three tarot decks you can triangulate your answers, which for me, is among the best tips I can give out to beginner tarot readers. That, and shuffle thoroughly, use jumpers for your readings, treat your cards with care, and approach tarot readings with respectful cool headedness.


You can triangulate in different levels depending on how you are reading tarot. If you read tarot for story creation, then when you feel a block in reading the meaning of a couple of cards or feel blocked as to where the story is heading, get the other two decks and see if you have repeating cards, symbols, imagery or how they answer your roadblock questions. New imagery can unblock your mind.


                                                                                
A Triangulation Graphic with the three stages stacked inside, Microanalysis, Macroanalysis, Logic & Intuition



Triangulation Graphic showing a Triangle with Method 1 written in one lower corner with an arrow directed to the top, Method 2 on the other lower side with an arrow pointing to the top, and Confirmation of Results written on the top tip of the triangle.



For Psychological Journaling, do the same. Get your other decks when you face a roadblock on where the meaning is going here or there regarding this emotional space, to get hints as to which topics, meanings or ways to overcome an obstacle or trauma are relevant to you.


For Oracle Readings, once you get to this level, the other two tarot decks will allow you to triangulate and get many repeating cards to clarify the meaning of the reading or tell you what the strong message or topic is about or where the message is heading. Each tarot card has varying levels of meaning, triangulation assists in knowing which meaning seems to be key. Getting the exact same cards in an 8-card spread with at least 2 or 3 coinciding, is a powerful experience and a great clarifying oracular technique.


That being said, don't get overwhelmed with doing a tarot spread with all the 78 cards a tarot deck has, and then add the other sets of 78...This won't work at any of the tarot deck reading levels. Unless you are very advanced in tarot reading or a born tarot virtuoso.



Most Important Tips for the Beginner Tarot Reader



Journaling is not only important at the psychological level of reading tarot or for storyline creation or for creative writing. It is very important to record and later go back to meditating on the exercise of each reading tarot session. I am not sure what goes on when receiving important information or ideas when you are in a higher or focused level of consciousness, be it creative, emotional or spiritual, but the moment you step outside of that cloud and touch the mundane, and get back into your life, you forget every single advice or idea you received during the process of reading tarot cards. Very similar as to what happens when we have realistic dreams, and they slip our memory as soon as we start our day. Some spiritual practices say the numinous content dissipates quickly in our memories, as its frequency is different from that of the material world.


Some things might stay in your memory, but believe me, most will slip away like water in your hands. For that reason, journal. If you are not much into writing and keeping notes, be it in paper or in your laptop, consider audio notes. With the technology nowadays you could even convert audio into text, and text into keynotes and keep a log of your readings. Take photos too. I highly recommend keeping notes with dates and write what you asked about too. This way you could go back into your readings. You will find the accuracy of your oracular abilities in an exercise like this. You could have proof you could see into what happened.



Four frames to depict the power of journaling for tarot reading development. The first frame shows a woman sitting on the ground feeling the energy of a spider web with a spier on it right over the background of a bright full moon. The second frame shows a lavender field on a starry night. The third shows a woman writing on a journal in front of a desk. The fourth shows a woman reading a journal and having her mind blown with what it says, as if to show she realized deeper truths from her journaling.
Dreams reveal secrets, but their immaterial substance makes them easy to forget.
Journal or Record your Tarot Sessions

                                                                    


Or you could get a snapshot of what was going on in your emotional world during that time, your concerns, your aspirations, and your decision-making process. Don't overdo it. This is good advice for everything in life. Everything with moderation. It is very easy to get obsessed about tarot readings in the beginning. A certain level of enthusiasm and disciplined interest is a good sign that tarot reading is something that really calls to you. Just keep grounded. Try to do grounding activities (day to day worldly bodily activities, gardening, cooking, cleaning, dancing, sunbathing, walking barefoot on grass or soil, sing, walk, run, gym, yoga, few jumping jacks, hug a tree, water your plants, pet your pet, sit in the ground) after reading tarot cards. 


Don't ask the same question over and over again expecting different answers. Now, if you didn't understand the answer and need to check again, that is different, but don’t overdo it.


Maybe what you ask is not for you to know. Maybe you are not in the right midframe to do the tarot reading. This is especially true with love readings or when you read cards for yourself over very sensitive topics for you. Take all romantic advice lightly. Why, because of all life subjects, it is the one that has the free will of two people involved and lots of things can change. For example, a person might have feelings for you, but they might decide not to do anything about it. Or you could be projecting...only time will tell.


Also, never take the advice of tarot as a matter of fact. Back to an ancient and well revered oracle, the Oracle of Delphi, it's three PSA's to always keep in mind and share with the people you read tarot to are: Know thyself. Don't take anything at face value. Nothing to excess.


Oracles or psychological prompts are tools to help us navigate life, but nothing will replace the importance of developing and sharpening our decision-making process into one that would be wholesome, well rounded, inside the law, compassionate and psychologically healthy.


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Sabrina Taro


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