The Occult

So you want to read tarot cards? Then, the first step is to clear your mind. Deep breathing is a good way to do this. All the best telephone psychics use breath control. You’ll get better results when you try to discern what the cards are trying to tell you.

With that guideline in place, the next step is to determine which type of tarot cards you prefer. Many cards have pictures, which range in focus from the goddess Athena to zoo animals and everything in between. How the cards look doesn’t really mean much, but if it makes you feel more of an affinity with the deck, that’s great.

Once you’ve chosen a deck, you’ll need to get to know the individual card meanings. To facilitate this, a tutorial in book form can be quite helpful. Many beginners enjoy the book Tarot for Yourself by Mary K. Greer. This book or one in a similar vein will get you started. No matter which book you buy, you’ll want to read it through to the end and then put it aside when it comes to reading the cards.

It’s best to put the book aside because you need to activate your intuition to use the cards. You’ll now need to study the cards to develop your own interpretations of them. Oddly, many times the interpretations people arrive at are very close to those found in beginner tarot books.

Tarot readings aren’t like phone psychic readings or real psychic readings by phone. When you’re finally ready to do a reading, it can be done in a number of ways. The simplest way to begin is to use the card-a-day method. This method requires that you choose a card that will predict how the day will turn out. You can also array the tarot cards in what is called a constellation. To do a constellation,you gather all the cards of the same prime number (cards numbered one through nine), regardless of the suit. Lay out all the cards with one number on the table in front of you. Note how you feel about each of them. Repeat this procedure for each group of numbers. Getting to know the cards like this will help your readings go more smoothly.