Tarot

What is a Tarot Card Reading?

Tarot is a symbolic map of consciousness that allows you to access guidance and wisdom from your deepest self. Traced back to the seventeenth century, the Tarot consists of a deck of 78 cards that can be used in multiple ways to provide insight into your innermost truth, and your highest self. The deck is divided into two categories: The 22 Major Arcana cards represent karmic and spiritual lessons that hold meaning on a soul level and invite us to deeper understanding. The 56 Minor Arcana cards reflect the more everyday trials and practical lessons of life, which can address current and temporary events.

Tarot is not about predicting the future; it provides a mirror into your life’s story. Tarot meanings can be interpreted to help you connect with the most powerful sources of information that come both from within, and from the collective, universal wisdom.

Benefits of a Tarot Card Reading

The benefits of using tarot as a healing practice are far-reaching and dependent on your personal need, as well as how you interpret and mobilize to use the information your reading reveals. The cards often signify archetypes of humankind—like power, strength, ambition and passion—and help you understand the stories playing out in your life. Tarot can help coax your subconscious and unspoken thoughts out into the light, revealing narratives and patterns that might be otherwise tricky to talk about. The process can create a visualization that’s conducive to healing.

Tarot Cards for Health Issues
Tarot can be used to highlight and understand current health issues. While tarot can’t diagnose you, a reading can help to release your body’s innate knowledge, and provide insights into areas you might be ignoring, or bring to the surface underlying issues that you aren’t currently aware of.

Self Healing Tarot Spread
One of the great things about tarot is that you can learn to read the cards yourself, promoting self-healing of trauma, grief, anxiety and more. It’s helpful to have your cards read by a professional to get a sense of how it works, but in time, you can learn to intuit meaning and awareness from your inner wisdom with your own tarot deck.

What to Expect During a Tarot Reading

Before Your Tarot Session: Prepare yourself to be open to whatever comes up in your body and mind during the session. If you have specific questions you’re hoping to receive guidance about, bring that list with you to promote communication between you and your reader.

During Your Tarot Session: Your reader will get to know you, and likely explain their technique, if you’re new to tarot. Then, they’ll pull cards for you, providing you with the symbolism and universal truths that the cards represent. You’ll discuss what the pulling of those cards brings up in you and what you can do with those emotions or physical feelings.

After Your Tarot Session: Tarot won’t provide you with specific actions you should take to create change in your life. It can lead you to examine the choices you have to make decisions that will greatly impact your day-to-day. Be prepared to take action after your reading!

What is Online Tarot Reading and How Does It Work?

Virtual tarot reading is an accessible way to utilize this practice to begin your journey within. Because so much of the tarot experience is about your reaction to the cards, how you feel and what themes their images reveal, you can get a tarot reading online, without being in the same physical space as your practitioner.

How to Find the Best Tarot Reading Online For You

Because it can be done virtually, you don’t have to find tarot reading near you. You can find the practitioner who you most identify with, who has a track record of using tarot as a sacred way to open up your mind and body to hidden truths. Tarot readers might use a few different methods, or types of tarot decks, so be sure to ask about the process and be clear about what you most hope to get out of your session.