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    What Does the Knight of Wands Tarot Card Mean?

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    What does the Queen of Wands Tarot Card Mean?

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    What Does the Page of Wands Tarot Card Mean?

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    How to Shuffle Tarot Cards: 3 Ways!

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    6 Tarot Spreads for Love and Relationships

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    How to Use Clarifier Cards in Tarot Readings

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    Want to Align with the Lunar Cycle? 5 Must Read Books!

    Intrigued by the spiritual and magical significance of the moon cycle? Here are 5 must-read books to learn all about lunar magic!…

    January 28, 2021
  • How to Read Tarot Cards for Yourself

    Why might you want to learn how to read tarot cards? Well, do you wish you had a tool to help you make better decisions? Need help quieting all your fears and worries so…

    January 22, 2021
  • 5 Annoying (and False!) Myths about Reading Tarot

    Let's talk about tarot myths - and there are many! In this post, I bust the five most annoying (and false!) myths I've heard about reading tarot and working with tarot cards.…

    January 21, 2021
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    Candle Magic Basics for Beginners

    Ultimate guide to candle magic for beginners: How it works, what you'll need to get started, and more.…

    January 14, 2021
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    Color Symbolism: The Meaning of Colors in Tarot

    Understanding color symbolism is an important part of reading tarot cards. Learn the meaning of essential colors in tarot and enrich your understanding of the cards.…

    January 7, 2021
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    Tarot Solitaire: A Great Way to Bond With Your Tarot Cards

    In this post, I’m going to show you how to play tarot solitaire. Yup, you can play solitaire with your tarot cards! Here’s how to do it.…

    December 3, 2020
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    10 Tips for How to Improve Your Intuition

    How was I finally able to learn how to listen to my intuition and build a life that was more aligned with my highest good? I’ll tell you in this blog post and give…

    October 29, 2020
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    How to Cleanse Tarot Cards – 4 Ways!

    Four ways to cleanse the energy of your tarot cards, whether it's a new deck or an old one you don't seem to be connecting with lately.  Select one or mix and match as…

    October 19, 2020
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    An Easy Tarot Reading to Restore Balance in Your Life

    An easy tarot reading to do when things feel out of balance and you need to restore harmony in your life. This balance non-spread is perfect for the season of Libra, the scales in…

    September 24, 2020
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    How to Interview Your Tarot Deck

    Here's a simple three-card spread I created for interviewing a new tarot deck.…

    September 17, 2020
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If you are just diving into the wonderful world of reading tarot, particularly for yourself as a tool for self-discovery and reconnecting with your intuition, swipe through for 5 essential tarot tips! In case you can’t read them in the images, I’ve summed them up below:⁠
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1. Start with the Rider-Waite-Smith or derivative tarot deck. Working with that deck is like working with the answer key, so learning can be much easier!⁠
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2. Get to know your tarot deck by studying the cards. Notice patterns, sequences, and how certain tarot cards make you feel.⁠
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3. Draw a single tarot card for yourself each day and try to interpret it yourself by describing what you see. Then read the meaning. You’ll be surprised at how close you can get to the traditional tarot card meaning, and this process makes the meanings stick more than rote memorization!⁠
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4. Keep a tarot journal to track your tarot reading progress. Review and reflect on older entries and watch your tarot readings improve!⁠
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5. Read tarot books and follow helpful tarot accounts (❣️like this one❣️) for more tarot tips and tricks.⁠
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A clarifier card is an additional tarot card that A clarifier card is an additional tarot card that is drawn to help further explain - or clarify - the meaning of a tarot card you have already drawn in a tarot reading.⁠
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There is nothing inherently wrong with drawing a clarifier card. In fact, there are certain tarot cards that I often will draw a clarifier card for!⁠
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But if you find yourself frequently pulling a clarifier card, and then just one more, okay and then maybe just one more, now just one final clarifier to be extra super duper sure? That’s getting into less productive territory. Because the reality is that more cards will often REDUCE clarity, which is the exact opposite of what you want.⁠
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Here are 3 things I try - in this order - while reading tarot for myself BEFORE resorting to drawing more tarot cards:⁠
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1. Meditate on the tarot card.⁠
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2. Write in your tarot journal.⁠
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3. Look up the meaning in a trusted tarot dictionary and compare it with your interpretation.⁠
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Honorable mention: Step away from the tarot reading for a few hours or even days and come back to it with fresh eyes.⁠
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How do you use clarifier cards in your practice? Let me know below!
My nephew is a preschool graduate! At his darling, My nephew is a preschool graduate! At his darling, exuberant, barely comprehensible recital, we were told the story of Noah’s Ark over and over again - in song, in dance, in memorized recitations in languages I can safely guess were Armenian and English - by four different preschool classes dressed as animals, angels, and I want to say vegetables carrying umbrellas.

The myth of Noah’s ark - and the countless other flood myths that exist in mythologies around the world - is one of obedience first and foremost. But what strikes me is the unshakeable trust and faith that is required for such obedience. 

Noah and the other protagonists of flood myths trusted God and went straight to work. They followed their commands until there was no turning back. 

In tarot, this threshold moment is represented by the Chariot. 

Read more in this week’s tarot newsletter! If it’s not in your inbox already, you know where to go to join the party! 👉🏼🔗🪪@thetarotprofessor👈🏼

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The positive energy of the 6 of Wands tarot card c The positive energy of the 6 of Wands tarot card can feel particularly elusive when we are feeling self-doubt or imposter syndrome, or doing a little too much comparing (the not so great side of social media, am I right!? 🥸) ⁠
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So swipe through for some 6 of Wands goodness today. I am all about what certain tarot energy might actually LOOK LIKE in our daily lives, and how we can manifest more of it instead of just sitting back and hoping it randomly shows up for us. ⁠
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Let me know what you think and what you might add to this list! 💜
Happy June, tarot besties! Your June tarotscopes a Happy June, tarot besties! Your June tarotscopes are ready for you (check your email or go to the 🔗 in my 🪪 to sign up!) and this month, they feature the newly released Wise Earth Medicine Tarot by Lalania Simone (@the.cosmicseed). If you’re into vibrant colors and animal symbolism, this vivid deck of animal wisdom is the tarot deck for you. Just look at these LUSCIOUS LUSCIOUS colors. 🤩
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The reason tarot has the power to tap into our unc The reason tarot has the power to tap into our unconscious and activate our intuition is because it’s a SYMBOLIC language.⁠
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Images, colors, and symbols speak to us in a way words can’t. In fact, archetypes - although we necessarily describe them in words to be able to express and discuss them - are actually, by definition, based on indefinable and abstract ideas that we FEEL and INSTINCTIVELY RECOGNIZE.⁠
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That’s why sometimes we turn over a tarot card and can identify with it or resonate with the picture we are looking at so deeply even if we have trouble articulating the message in words at first. That’s tarot communicating to our unconscious.⁠
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We then (at least this seems to be the order for me) turn to our intellect to translate, organize, and communicate the message in a way our conscious mind can understand as well. Studying tarot more traditionally allows the cards to activate this intellectual part of our minds as well, which is why a single image in a tarot card unlocks such a vast treasure trove of information! 🤩⁠
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