Committing Tarot card meanings to memory is a really, really difficult thing. Through a previous website called Tarot Study and through the creation of our own Tarot deck, we have helped, and would like to continue to help, lots of people learn to read Tarot. As such, I’m keen to help learning Tarot readers get to grips with this issue and that’s why I’m starting Tarot Card of the Day.
If I were starting out again, I would avoid trying to commit static keywords, phrases or sentences to mind as I know I would save a small fortune on Ibuprofen. Any Tarot card meanings that are written for you to use are only supposed to be starting point, a guide if you will. Beyond that a Tarot reader has to build their own way to having a truer, deeper knowledge of what the card has to offer.
To read Tarot well, the reader needs to be able to identify with the whole situation, experience or person displayed in the card, the nuances that might apply in card combinations, the spread position it appears in and so on. So really, a reader needs a more three dimensional understanding than fixed keywords or meanings can provide. This can only be achieved with time and experience.
I only really became confident in my understanding of the Tarot, when I’d finally affiliated each card with some personal life experience or person. By attaching my own experiences and memories it helped me to (on some level) empathise with the situation or person portrayed. This increased my awareness of the wider dynamics and emotions that might be at play and consequently, I was able to offer a more three-dimensional understanding and reading.
The idea of Tarot Card of the Day is that I will relate a personal situation, feeling or experience to the Tarot card I think best portrays it. I hope that this might help Tarot learners affiliate with their cards and start being able to relate Tarot card to their own real-life events.
If you’re struggling with any particular card meanings, I’m happy to take suggestions on which cards to focus on. As always, please just pop me an email to patricia@simplytarot.com.
Here’s our Tarot Card of the Day: Three of Wands
This is the perfect card to sum up our current situation.
Over the past few years we’ve progressed along a journey with Tarot. We’ve had wonderful feedback from people who have bought our Tarot deck and who have used the Tarot card meanings. We couldn’t have hoped for a better response so far and would perceive activity to date to be relative signs of “success”.
However we’re still at the starting blocks with Simply Tarot even though we’ve enjoyed a particularly progressive week and we’re feeling incredibly enthused.
There’s still a huge amount of work to be done to the website, and to start providing helpful guidance to all the Tarot lovers out there. As such, we should be proud of what we’ve achieved to date but recognise that this is definitely not the time to get complacent!!
If you like our Tarot deck, The Tarot House Deck, you can buy it here
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