traditions, but a comprehensive understanding is not necessary to successful tarot reading. A basic understanding however, is required. Before we jump into the more analytical side of things, it’s important that you take a deep breath and connect.
Listen to Your Heart
Learning to listen to your subconscious is crucial. There are countless exercises and meditations designed to help you learn to listen. Since meditation is an art itself, and can be very frustrating to beginners, a good place to begin is to think of each card as a piece of art. Most of us have stood in front of a painting and just looked. You don’t have to understand color theory and composition to appreciate beautiful art. It certainly helps, but it’s not a prerequisite. Go ahead and try it now:
Listening Exercise
Get a pencil and piece of paper. You’re about to start your tarot journal. (Want a special notebook for this? Check out the fabric covered pads from Tarot Totes Pull a card from your tarot deck. Any card will do. Now look at it. Don’t worry about its divinatory meaning, the symbolic tradition. Just look at it. Let the card’s imagery draw you in. What do you feel? Can you describe the colors? Does the image remind of you something – a feeling, a dream, a person, a memory? What’s the first thing that pops into your mind? Before you forget the sensation, write down which card you pulled, and then your initial reactions to it.
You’re done! It’s that simple. You may want to look up the meaning of that card and compare it with what you felt. Though