I got a deck of Tarot Cards, what do I do with them?
sit down with the cards every night for about six months.
holding the deck in your hands, cut it to reveal a new card. study the imagery of the card carefully and try to deduce its meaning. when you think you have it, cut the deck again, and so on for about 20 minutes.
As you go through the deck, consult a reference book if you get stuck, but always try to define the meaning of the cards yourself first. Pay special attention to cards that come up over and over again over your practice.
As you get better with the cards, begin trying to reconcile the meaning of the cards and your own life. It will not always be clear what the connection is between the cards you draw and the experiences you have. This is good. It will force you to think about things in a new way. Kind of like getting an outside perspective.
Next begin to experiment with your practice. Ask the cards question directly and see what comes up as the answer. You might draw a card to represent a day and carry it with you. You might play with drawing multiple cards. be creative here. Eventually you might want to learn some classic spreads, like the Celtic cross, but you ought to begin practicing intuitively and build from there.
Finally, give readings to other people. Sometimes it doesn't land, but in my experience most people love it. People like being the center of attention, and many can't help but think the cards describe them and their lives.
Eventually as you sit with the cards you will find you are able to enter into a meditative state in which it appears that you are having a conversation with the oracle, and believe me, the oracle makes some very good points. This state is the pinnacle of Tarot practice and it is definitely something to see.
Also some extra advice. I don't know why but tarot and weed go together really well. something about the associative nature of weed works well with the tarot, more so than other substances.
Hermetic_Magician !!PrsZ2DusdQ 2017-01-30 06:29:40 No.627
I have yet to try doing a reading while stoned or drunk.
I have this idea that it will be impossible to do readings under an altered state of mind. I need to experiment with this at some point.
2017-01-31 09:21:15 No.636
hey OP I don't really care much about my future of reading the future of other people, so I'm more interested into the ritualistic and symbolic nature of the cards.
As per
I have begun learning what the arcana mean as an esoteric language, that book is very dense and I have had to read the first half of it at least three or four times, and lots of stuff still seems confusing, but this is what I wanted, a good pile of information rather than the typical "The cards show you funny pictures that you use to imagine the future".
Also recommended:
Portable Magic:
http://miltonthed.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/6/14162844/portable_magic_tarot_by_donald_tyson.pdf
In this one the author actually teaches how to use the cards to make rituals, using the cards as representations of solar entities, persons etc . Not much about reading the future but rather about influencing your present.