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3 Tarot Meditations to Support Your Life, by Chanda Parkinson

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The tarot invites us to free our minds to the imprint of their meaning upon our lives at any point in time. There are a plethora of traditional, time-honored interpretations we can bring to our tarot practices. However, making tarot personal and intimate goes beyond standard interpretations. In order to take flight into the poetry of the tarot, we must entertain the myriad ways in which each card can be interpreted in collaboration with the other cards. It is essential to include our intuitive impulses, plus our own mental connecting prowess, not just book meanings.

Surrendering ourselves into the vastness of the tarot requires building a relationship with it that is separate from memorized meanings. This attitude and strategy is what brings tarot to life before our eyes. It elevates the tarot from simply an object of deliberate study to also becoming a living, breathing embodiment of our daily lives; past, present, and future. It is the magnificent storyteller of our soul's path.

I know that for some, learning tarot can feel like an arduous task: 78 images stare up at us, all with deeply nuanced meanings combined with intricate levels of symbolism. It can be daunting to pick up a deck as a beginner, and even more intimidating to sort out how to begin learning. The more classic or traditional tarot decks are steeped in mythological and biblical tales, embedded with Egyptian hieroglyphs, letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and other esoteric symbolism. While it may seem a bit rebellious, even foolish, to connect with tarot cards first through your own intuition, it is a way to gain access to innate realms of wisdom that live within you. One of the methods for engaging your intuition to reveal personal truths held within the tarot is meditation.

Meditation is a flexible, universal modality that can be applied in many areas of spiritual practice. It not only stills our mind, but also opens our sixth sense to potential feedback and input intuitively gathered from our psychic tools. One psychic tool that pairs well with meditation is tarot. No matter how long you have been reading tarot cards, you can use meditation techniques to open a deeper awareness of the meanings and stories in the cards.

The combination of meditation and tarot isn't just for those who want to deepen their relationship and understanding of the tarot, but also for those with a dedicated meditation practice who are bored and looking for a new, fresh way to meditate! You can pull one card a day, and spend time connecting to its imagery as a way to clear your mind or move through a challenging moment with more clarity.

HOW TO BEGIN
Set and setting matters. I prefer a quiet, undisturbed spot in my bedroom for meditation and tarot. When I go in there and close the door, it's me time. I can spread out on the bed and know I am always in a comforting cocoon. Locating a space in your home that feels conducive to about 15- 20 minuntes of connecting with the cards is best. If you enjoy working with any sacred tools or objects, gather those around you.

If you have housemates and don't have much capability for seclusion, never fear! You don't need to be sequestered in dark room to meditate. As a matter of fact, parks or hiking trails are excellent options. If you have a lunch break at work, grab your tarot deck and take a walk to some place in nature. As long as you won't be interrupted, you can be somewhere near others. You can sit in the parking ramp on a work break or seek out a private room at a nearby library. Get a good set of noise-cancelling headphones. You can create the space to make this practice work for you.

A few thoughts on deck choice. If you don't already have a deck of tarot cards, you may wish to begin with the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot. It's a great basic deck with which to learn. Eventually you can expand from there, and incorporate other decks that speak to you. The Rider-Waite-Smith is the most universally used and written about deck, so you'll see examples of it all over the internet and in most traditional tarot teaching texts.

Here are three simple meditation and tarot techniques you can begin using now to support your personal path and life choices.

Choose Your Card Meditation
In this meditation exercise, you first look through your tarot deck face up and choose a card that speaks to you in the moment. You may not initially know why, and that's ok. Pull the card from the deck and place in front of you.

Now take a few nice deep breaths, and focus on emptying your mind. Try visualizing all of your thoughts being put in a safe or a large wooden box with a lock on it. Or, you can imagine your thoughts dissipating into the atmosphere, transformed into butterflies. Whatever visual can help you slow your thinking processes is helpful.

Now look at your card, and answer these questions quietly to yourself:

1. How does the card make you feel?
2. What is the story in the card?
3. How might this card relate to what is happening right now in your life?

Make note of it in a journal or notebook for later pondering.

One-Minute Tarot Meditation
This meditation exercise is best done sitting at a table, where you can spread your cards out in front of you. Hold your tarot cards in your hands. Take a few nice deep breaths, slowing down your body's biorhythms and your thoughts so you can focus and concentrate. While you shuffle your deck, send your intention into the cards for what it is you would like to know.

Next, fan the cards out on the table in front of you. Slowly run your dominant hand across the tarot cards, paying attention to any tingles of energy surging through your fingertips telling you which card to draw. Pull the first card you feel connected to. Trust your instincts.

After that, gaze at the card and simply allow thought forms, feelings, intuitive impressions, or messages to pop into your mind. How does this card mirror what may be going on currently in your life? Does a sudden mental imprint or AHA! moment pop into your mind? Go with your first impression. Take notes.

Prioritize Your Thoughts Meditation
Fun fact: on an average day, our minds think on average 60,000 thoughts. This is absolutely mind-blowing to me, and explains why it can be of tremendous use to have tools to bust up those thought streams, and give your mind a much-needed break.

You can use your tarot deck as a mental anchor, taking pause in the hectic moments of life, and slowing down the thought forms consuming you. Not only this, but it will also assist you in hearing your inner voice. Tarot is a wonderful tool for helping you prioritize your thought processes, so you can more systematically approach what needs to be done. This is an excellent exercise for those with ADD or who tend to scatter focus throughout the day.

Shuffle your deck while asking the deck to show you the one area of life to spend a little time reflecting on first. While shuffling simply project your intention into the cards. Divide the deck into three piles. Draw the top card from each pile and lay them out in front of you. Scan the three cards while keeping any disruptive thoughts from invading your mind. There is nothing but this moment, and this opportunity to learn something new about an area of your life. Just gaze lightly from card to card, not really committing to any one thought or insight. Begin to notice how the cards in front of you mirror something you are dealing with right now. With a paper and pen jot down notes about what area of life the cards are helping you prioritize.

Now gaze upon the cards again. What nudges are you feeling around this particular area of your life? Are the cards imparting any needed wisdom or guidance? If you would like, you can draw three more cards for additional insight. Trusting your own inner voice, write down 3 possible solutions the cards are revealing to you about that particular area of life. Allow your imagination and creativity to show you the way!

Combining your meditation and tarot practices brings an extra level of calm presence and capacity for deeper understanding during life's ups and downs. The key is to experiment with different settings, maybe even different card decks, and each meditation to see which ones work best for you. I hope you find these exercises helpful!

You can get even more detailed tarot and intuition building exercises just like this, including an in-depth meditation for each Major Arcana card in my new book Meditation and Tarot: Connect with the Cards to Develop Your Inner Vision.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2024. All rights reserved.

I've started using the law of attraction and it's turned my life around. I feel so much more confident and fulfilled. Several months ago I started my own vision board by making a collage of all the things I wanted in my life. I wanted a soul mate so I put on a picture of a famous footballer to represent my ideal man. I have known this guy from the neighborhood for a long time, and in the last couple of months, we've become good friends. He has the same first name as this famous footballer, and is everything I would want in a soul mate. It felt so right between us - or so I thought - for when I told him about my feelings for him in a text, he ignored me. We have spoken since that incident and he has even flirted with me, but never mentioned the text I sent him. I even had a dream wherein he said I was the type of woman he could fall in love with, and then he kissed me. When I woke up from the dream, I felt a magical glow all over my body. I have begged the universe to give me a sign that he either is or is not the one. When I think about not being with him, I feel sad. I know you can't force anyone to love you, but over the years something has always told me that I like this guy, even when I didn't know him very well. Is it stupid to continue to focus on manifesting this man in my love life? He's a Libra and I'm an Aries.

Astrea:

I love the vision board thing! When I was broke and needed a new car, I did the same thing you're doing. I cut out and put up pictures of my little red Toyota MR2, and three weeks later it was in my driveway.

The Law of Attraction will work for people know how to use it, so I know you're on the right track. Some people might say that the LOA isn't designed for something like getting a certain partner, but I disagree. You can make it work for you if you take the time to do it right.

Libra and Aries can make great soul mates, though often the Aries isn't patient enough to wait for the Libra to catch up. It will take this guy a while to come over to your way of thinking. Libras like to feel they're in control, and your text took him by surprise.

Don't fret; things will turn around after the first of the year. He didn't talk to you about your text because he simply wasn't ready. Since he's still flirting with you, the text didn't damage your chances one bit.

While we're on the subject of texting, I want to take this opportunity to ask everyone who texts others with their deepest feelings a question: What the heck are you people thinking?!

Every day I counsel people who texted something important to someone, and are agonizing over the response (or lack of response) they got. Telling people that you think you love them in a text may seem safe, but it's just plain silly, and it hardly ever yields the desired outcome.

One of the hardest things for the computer/ cell phone/ email/ text generation to understand is that people have to interact face to face in order to fall in love. Personal interaction is essential for building personal relationships.

Texts are for light or practical matters; they're for flirting, not making lifetime commitments. Telling someone deep personal information in a text is chicken and kind of pushy, for the texter clearly expects the person to respond in kind.

What's that you say? You don't have the courage to walk up and express your feelings because you fear rejection? Well, join the crowd, kiddo. Everyone fears rejection.

The key to building any long lasting relationship is communication between two people. It's nice that we have all this technology to aid us in doing that, but for real love to flourish, people have to actually spend time together with their cell phones, televisions, computers and blackberries powered off.

The LOA can only do so much; people have to be willing to put themselves out there in PERSON to get big results.

*****

Susyn:

The ritual you describe is very powerful and similar to one I recommend to clients who want to attract a soul mate. The reason it works so well is because it helps us define our true feelings and get focused on our desires.

As you say, when you took action to create the vision board, suddenly things began to happen. It would be hard to ignore all the signs and events that point toward your friend.

With the exception of your text message, it appears things are going well. What's hard to fathom is why you've opened your heart to him but he's not returning your feelings.

Perhaps he's old-fashioned and wants to be the one to make the first move. If this is the case, be patient: Men typically move much slower than women when it comes to relationships.

It's also possible that by deciding he is your soul mate, period, you've limited your focus to this one person, when he may merely be a representation of the one you are trying to draw in.

Here's the problem with that: instead of staying focused on yourself, you're intently focused on him. This will create more and more resistance from him, so the best way to tell if he is really the one is to take your focus off of him and all your feelings for him, and return your attention to yourself.

This is what manifested the change in the first place. You'll notice that once you turned all your attention to him, movement toward a relationship stalled.

Also, remember that you're dealing with a Libra, which is a sign of the zodiac that doesn't make decisions lightly or quickly, but instead tends to sit on the fence indefinitely.

As an Aries, your nature is to get an idea in your head and then rush to act on it. As polar opposites in the Zodiac, Aries and Libras couldn't be more different in how they approach and process life.

Keep in mind that whatever you focus on, your friend will focus on. Presently you're focused on him, so that's what he's thinking about too - himself. If you'd like him to think more about you, you can change that in an instant by making yourself your first priority, even if it means saying no the next time he wants to hang out or chat.

The most important thing to keep in mind as you continue your quest to discover if this man or someone else is your soul mate, is that until you can master the art of keeping your focus on yourself, it will be hard to manifest fulfillment.

The more you focus on yourself, the more you'll glow with spiritual light, and then you'll attract a soul mate like a moth to a flame.

Good luck on your search for true love, Aries!

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.