I wanted to start a blog with a Tarot Card of the Day. This is for me to study cards that I draw at random each day. I wanted to blog them to perhaps help others interested in Tarot, but also to keep track of where I am in my study.
With each entry, I first want to "intuit" the card, based on what I already know (or think I know) about the card and it's meaning in my life "today". Then I will look at my trusty Dictionary of the Tarot to see what it can tell me and make changes to my interpretation accordingly.
I would also like to note (to myself, mostly) that there are patterns in our lives and that as time goes on, I will draw cards that I have already drawn. I need to reinterpret these cards based on what is going on in my life at that time. Perhaps this will help me see the mistakes I continue to make.
I also link to Psychic Revelation, which I find to be a good Internet site for interpretations.
I mostly use the Hanson-Roberts Tarot deck for reading, both for myself and for others, but I am a collector of decks. The images on my blog are pulled from internet images and include decks as well as artwork based on the Tarot that I find on various sites.
How I Began Reading Tarot
Somewhere around 1990, I was living in New York City, the melting pot of the world, and one thing I discovered was that all of my foreign friends tended to find others from their part of the world and he was no exception. One day, a Brazilian man I knew showed up in my apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with an entourage of his friends: a couple of women and a couple of men. At that point in time, I think I had already met the women and probably one of the men, but there was one man with him whom I hadn’t met.
As we were all chatting, the man I hadn’t met was looking in my bookcase. That’s pretty common…if you want to know a person, see what they read. After a time, he asked if he could talk to me privately, away from the others. We went into the kitchen, a short trip from the living room where everyone else was.
“Why do you have a deck of Tarot cards on your bookshelf?” he asked.
I said, “I don’t know. I saw them several years ago and bought them. They’ve been in my bookshelf ever since.”
“Well, I know why you have them,” he said.
I was intrigued.
“Do you mind if I touch your cards?” he asked.
Of course, I didn’t mind. He took them from the bookshelf and asked if we could talk for awhile. We went into my bedroom and he opened the box and began to talk.
“I know why you have these. I recognized you the second I came into your home. You see, I am a witch, and you are, too. I think this is why I came here today…and why I began to look for clues.”
To be told you are a witch is somewhat scary at first, I guess, but I was also quite intrigued and interested in what he had to say.
He opened my deck, The Marsailles, and shuffled them and began to turn them over, one by one, and wove a story about me with the cards. Some of the things he said I knew about. Some of the things he told me, I did not. Some of the things I thought meant something else and only later found out that they were accurate, just not in the way that I originally thought. Almost of it I have forgotten.
When he had turned over and read the last card, he asked me if I had any questions. I think I was so overwhelmed that I had no idea what to even ask.
He told me that I was supposed to be using the cards and that he was "sent" to my home to be my mentor – to teach me what to do.
We arranged to meet a few days later. He gave me some books and recommended that I get a more traditional deck, like the Rider-Waite, which I did. I began to study every day, for hours on end. I would study the cards, but I also did readings for myself. I would write everything down. Before long, I began to read for others…my family, my friends. I developed my own style. I began to collect success stories…many of them, and with them, my confidence grew.
He fulfilled his duty and we lost touch years ago. But for all the years I’ve been reading and studying, there is still one goal I want to achieve and that is to read the entire deck like a story, as he did. I have not even attempted to do it yet, but I am confident that one day I will.
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