Ritual Salt Bath for Tarot Cards
Tags: cleansing tarot cards, techniques, salt bath
An effective method of removing all energy, including negative energy, from a tarot deck.
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Numerological Tarot Methods
Tags: numerology, techniques, interpretation, tarot card meanings, tarot analysis
Any numerological system is essentially arbitrary. I'm making one up, and I hope it'll be internally consistent. This is how I plan to assign divinatory meanings to the cards, in the hope of someday making my own deck. The general idea is that you combine the suit significance with the numerological significance in order to obtain a more specific meaning. If you are using a pictorial deck, you should also combine this with the impressions left by the card itself. If you look at the various schools of thought on divinatory meanings of cards, it is evident that many of those people used this same method. Please note that this is a work in progress, so your comments are triply appreciated!
Newly updated with additional numerological suggestions as of 5/22/13!
Handling the Cards
Tags: basic concepts, techniques, shuffling, layouts
This article describes how to shuffle and lay out the cards.
Framing the Question
Tags: questions, techniques, basic concepts
I remember teachers in school insisting that there was no such thing as a bad question. I disagree wholeheartedly with that idea. I can think of many examples of bad questions, starting with those that trap the listener: "When did you stop beating your wife?" When it comes to reading tarot cards, asking the right question is crucial. Let's start with bad examples, and move up to good examples.
Centering
Tags: basic concepts, techniques, prayer, meditation, focus, centering
There are several different methods of centering oneself before performing a tarot card reading, each of them valid: meditation, a moment of silence, prayer, or even taking a moment to focus on the breath can help to provide the ambience you want when delving into the secrets of the cards.
The function of this behavior differs greatly depending on what you believe. For materialists, it can help to achieve a state of heightened awareness, remove the influence of negative thoughts, connect with the collective consciousness, and allow the mind to focus on what is directly in front of it; the reading.
...Taking Tricks, Making Books
Tags: techniques, tarot analysis
In the original games played with a tarot deck, taking tricks of cards was often the entire point of the game. It is appropriate, then, that we should look for the same tendency to form sets that the cards possess through their nature. In some readings, you may find that you received a large number of one suit, or a large number of one designation. There are varying viewpoints on what this might mean.