How You Read Tarot
Expanding your tarot vocabulary is key to unlocking more accurate readings. The more words and meanings you can associate with each card, the easier it becomes to interpret messages with clarity and precision. As a beginner in Tarot, it’s common to rely on reading one card at a time because it feels simpler and more manageable. However, this approach can limit your ability to dive deep into the nuances of a reading. When your understanding of a card is narrow, it can be challenging to connect it to the larger context of the situation or the surrounding cards, which makes your reading less accurate.
By learning more words and phrases to describe each card, you’re giving yourself more tools to work with. It’s like having a bigger vocabulary in any language — it opens doors for better understanding and communication. This can help you see connections, patterns, and energies more clearly, leading to insights that may have otherwise gone unnoticed. Tarot is a rich and layered practice, and the more time you spend expanding your knowledge of each card, the more intuitive and accurate your readings will become. Don’t be afraid to explore beyond the basic meanings — it’s what helps take your readings to the next level!
How You Read Tarot
A factor in what you deduce from your spreads is 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 in that sentence. When you have served your Tarot time long enough, it is possible to see meanings that are not on top of the pile.
𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 means internal because it often calls the phrase ‘deep down inside’ because of the way he is hugging himself for dear life. This ‘internal’ meaning therefore extends to medical subjects, and other things, in my Tarot dictionary.
Here is an example of one of those experiences I had. The question was about the repair of a vehicle, and the following was a small part of the Tarot response:
𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 – 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿
𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
internal – Four of Pentacles
combustion – Tower
Yes, another minor meaning, to me, of Tower is explosion, since the building is struck by lightning, forcing the contents out. There ya go: That’s what happens in an internal combustion engine.
And I got it … that time.
How You Read Tarot
In the same way that we collect skills and we collect pictures of ‘the way things are’ as we serve our time on the third planet from the sun, we also collect personal scenes imbued with one emotion or the other.
These memories are strung together in our personal mental neighborhood. We stroll through, stopping here and there, pretty much randomly.
There’s one set of these emotional scenes that are useful to us if we no longer randomly stroll but stop at their addresses: The most precious and most meaningful memories, the beautiful ones.
Revisit them. Move into them. Refresh and recycle them right where you are now. Repeat them in the current minute regularly.
