From 365 Tarot Spreads by Sasha Graham Opening a Gift Spread This spread is an unexpected present for you. Unwrap to discover what the magic of the holiday season has in store for you all through the year. Take a moment to thank the tarot and honor yourself for all the soul-searching, divining, hard work, and effort you put forth this year. Make a solid promise to enjoy your day, relax, and be thankful for the goodness in your life. Shuffle your deck. When satisfied, remove the top five cards without looking at them. Place the remaining deck in front of you. Build a house of cards—or, in this case, “wrapping” around your gift—by creating a five-card house around the

The Ultimate Guide to the Thoth Tarot by Johannes Fieberg & Evelin Burger Even if you don’t use a particular deck, there can still be useful information in a book about that deck that you can apply to other decks. For example, in The Ultimate Guide to the Thoth Tarot by Johannes Fieberg & Evelin Burger, they provide 10 Helpful Interpretation Tips. This one can easily be applied to any deck: Every Single Symbol is Ambiguous For example, let us consider the symbols Dove and Snake, both of which are counted among reoccurring tarot motifs. The dove is an attribute of different love and wisdom goddesses, the sign of the Holy Ghost, the peace dove, and a symbol of

Tarot Interactions by Deborah Lipp Many people want to improve their psychic skills when reading the cards. Deborah Lipp provides an exercise that helps clear the way for your psychic voice to emerge. Exercise: Speed Reading Do this exercise with a companion as your querent. If you must work alone, speak out loud, as if to a querent. You can record your voice for noting in your journal later.  Take a series of deep, calming breaths. Make sure you feel centered before you begin. Shuffle or mix your cards, and allow the process of shuffling to continue centering you. Lay down the first card and immediately begin speaking. Don’t let yourself pause for a breath. Say

The Ultimate Guide to the Rider Waite Tarot by Johannes Fieberg & Evelin Burger Fieberg and Burger present lots of interesting tips in their book, many of which can apply to decks other than the Rider-Waite-Smith. For example, they share this: A good way of achieving independence in interpreting the cards within a short space of time is to concentrate on the four suits. And when we regard the court cards as personalities that helps us to understand these four elements more fully. Each court card represents an ideal type, a person who has complete and sovereign command over the element in questions. The individual court figures within a suit display specific character