Mindful Tarot

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Welcome my friends!

Today is the first in a series of entries for my paid subscribers where I will discuss my practice of Mindful Tarot.

Let me unpack that term for you.

First, I do not consider myself a Tarot expert or “practitioner” in the traditional sense. I do not read cards for other people. I do not consider the cards as fortune telling tools, but they are tools of divination.

Divination

1 : the art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge usually by the interpretation of omens or by the aid of supernatural powers

2 : unusual insight : intuitive perception

There is more than one definition of this concept of divination, as we see above. I do not attempt to foretell events or discover any hidden knowledge (outside of one’s own psyche) with the use of Tarot. Others may use Tarot in this way, and more power to them!

For my purposes, I believe that we can hone the intuitive perception that we are hardwired with for ourselves and our own circumstances using Tarot. Many psychotherapists use Tarot in session to teach the skills of introspection.¹