Tarot Tips for Beginners for Great Readings
Reading the Tarot – Tips for Beginners
- Before beginning a reading, start with meditation and deep breathing.
- Let something in the card catch your eye and read it. Ask yourself, “This image reminds me of (fill in the blanks)….
- What does the image feel like to you? ”“ Vibrant? Calm? Nervous? Creepy? Ecstatic? Warm? Cool? Freezing? Hot? Intellectual? Sexual? Loving? Angry?
- Try making up a story from the image in the card, something that catches your eye. Begin with, “It”s as if the girl in the card were…. or “Once upon a time there was this man who…”
- If you can”t feel anything when you look at the card, close your eyes and take some deep breaths, center yourself, then open and look at the card.
- The more you learn about the symbols, the myths, and the archetypes, the more ancient wisdom you will be bringing to the reading.
- If you only understand a few cards, try doing a reading with just those cards.
- Do a simple three-card spread on each question; past, present and future cards to show where the situation is headed.
- Yes-No Questions: An Ace means yes. Instead of yes-no question, try asking a qualitative question. For example, instead of asking, “Should I move to Florida? Ask: “What can i learn about moving to Florida?”
- Just like in modern cards, some cards are more powerful than others. Aces are the highest of the everyday cards or Minor Arcana; trumps or Major Arcana are more powerful than the everyday cards.
- Warning about reading for yourself. If you question is coming from worries or fears, you may tend to read those fears into the cards.
- If you have a Tarot book you like, try asking a question, draw a card, and look up the meaning in the book.
- To learn the cards, put them in order every night before bed.
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Jeanne Mayell is a professional intuitive and author who gives private life readings and offers tools to help people develop their psychic abilities. In 2015, Mayell was named by Coast to Coast AM radio as one of America’s most gifted Tarot readers. Holding Master Degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an MA in Counseling Psychology from Framingham State University, and published in The Atlantic and other national journals, she is not only a gifted intuitive, but brings an academic and intellectual perspective to the world of psychic readings and intuition training.
Sensing that an era of profound and accelerated change is upon us, Mayell has been teaching people to expand the intuitive gifts we are all born with. In this way, we will be able to navigate the coming changes for ourselves, our families and others. She teaches classes in Tarot, Prophecy, Positive Psychology, and mindfulness — all ways to find inner guidance.
Mayell has also worked as a health writer (Atlantic Monthly, American Health Magazine, and EastWest Journal), and was the Massachusetts Medicaid Director, a policy analyst for the City of New York’s health and welfare programs, and a research consultant on national health and welfare programs. She has co-authored two books on health and welfare and is currently writing a book on intuition and the Tarot.
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