5 Inspiring Ways to Heal Yourself with Tarot

Happy Halloween!

As you may or may not know, I am a Tarot reader. One of my goals as a reader is to make Tarot more accessible and acceptable to more individuals. I have experienced both healing and inspiration from my work with the cards. I have also started to trust my Intuition and connect to my Spirit guides because of my time studying Tarot. I also work with Reiki and find the combination of the two very healing and powerful. I spend a lot of time researching new ways to utilize these approaches to promote balance and peace in myself and others.

I do come across individuals who feel very strongly that my work with Tarot is against God or even “evil.” I don’t outright close my mind to these individuals, but I have learned to turn the other cheek when I feel attacked. The common misconception about Tarot is that it is a dark art and that it is used to simply predict the future. There has also been centuries worth of negative propaganda campaigns against Tarot readers and other psychic healers to the point where misinformation about the field of psychic development is still prevalent today.

When you hear “Tarot reader” people often still imagine THIS…

…when it’s really more like this.

I wanted to share this article today to promote the style of Tarot reading that I promote. It is less focused on fortune telling, and more focused on empowering individuals to make informed decisions, understand their barriers to healing and make positive changes in their lives. There is also nothing inherently evil or un-Godly about the cards. I feel more connected to God than I have ever felt since I started using Tarot as a tool for self-reflection and spiritual guidance.

In this article take note of numbers 1-3. They are all simple meditation practices using the images on the cards as a way to enter into your mind more deeply. Also, notice the similarities between #4 and the principals of the Law of Attraction. There are countless ways to use Tarot for good. In my brief time on this Earth I have learned that anything can be used for good or for evil, the difference lies in your intentions and whether or not what you are doing is helping or hurting yourself and/or others. I hope that some of you enjoy learning that Tarot can be used to help, and for those of you who have already learned this I hope this provides some new ideas!

Thanks to Brigit at Biddy Tarot for another great post!

Have a wonderful and safe Halloween!

Namaste,

Kay

PS If you are interested in having a Tarot reading or learning more about Tarot please feel free to contact me or visit my business website: Joyful Lotus Holistic Healing Services

by GUEST WRITER on JANUARY 18, 2012 in READING THE TAROT

This is a guest post by Christiana Gaudet, Certified Tarot Grandmaster, blogger at tarottrends.com and author of Fortune Stellar. One of her goals as a Tarot reader is to make Tarot more accessible and acceptable, and so Christiana loves to read the Tarot cards in places such as nightclubs, churches, wineries, hair salons and military bases.

Today, Christiana shares her thoughts about Tarot as a tool for healing and provides five inspiring exercises you can do to heal your own life through Tarot.

Over to you, Christiana!

If you ask someone who has never before worked with tarot about the purpose of tarot, they will most likely say something about fortune telling.

It is true that tarot has an uncanny knack for predicting future events.  As a tool of divination it is accurate, compelling and insightful.

But if you ask a tarotist about the purpose of tarot, many will answer this way.  Tarot is a tool for healing.

Tarot as a Tool for Healing

The ways in which tarot heals may be limitless.  Over time, tarotists will develop and discover new ways to use these sacred images to bring healing.  Each tarotist has unique practices, so no list of tarot’s usefulness could ever be comprehensive.

The process of divination itself can be very healing.  Whether we are reading for ourselves or others, a good tarot reading can bring us to a place of emotional balance and well-being. It can give new perspective, and reframe painful issues to create healthier and more productive thinking.

A tarot reading can pinpoint problems and offer solutions.  A tarot reading may suggest new activities, new healing modalities and new priorities to create better health, both physically and emotionally.

For reasons both ethical and legal, tarot readers need to be very careful to avoid actually practicing medicine.  However, physical ailments, and their possible remedies, do occasionally appear in the cards. Urging a client to get to a doctor quickly can sometimes literally be a lifesaver.  Sometimes a reader may be able to give a sense of treatments or lifestyle changes that could help a client heal.   Here, the healing may come in the form of a referral to a particular medical practitioner.

Tarot reading can offer opportunities for communication.  Often, communication brings healing.  This can include openhearted communication within a couples reading, communication with a deceased loved one, or tactics to help improve communication in a difficult relationship.

5 Inspiring Ways to Heal Yourself with Tarot

Beyond the process of reading the cards, tarot can offer healing in a number of ways.  We can use tarot images in meditation, visualization, goal setting, magick and manifestation.

Tarot Meditation

Tarot meditation can take many forms.  One way to use tarot meditation for healing is this.  Look through the deck and choose an image that describes a current situation you want to change, or a current feeling you need to let go.

For example, let’s consider the Waite Rider Smith Eight of Swords.  Here we see a person bound and blindfolded.  She is stuck in a cage made of her own thoughts, or perhaps someone else’s unkind words.  An anxious person might choose this image to perform a healing meditation or visualization.

1. Become the Person in the Tarot Card

One way to perform a healing meditation is to become the person in the image.  Think about the swords that surround you, and decide what they represent.  Are they anxious thoughts, thoughts of self-doubt, or lapses in integrity?  Now think about what it feels like to be stuck.  Decide that you no longer want or need to be in that stuck place.   Find a way out.  Wriggle out of the binding, remove the blindfold, and simply walk away.  Perhaps you want to take the swords down, one by one, before you go.

2. Have a Conversation with the Person in the Tarot Card

Another way to work with this card is to enter the card as an observer.  Hold a conversation with the trapped person.  Ask her why she is there.  Ask her questions about her situation and see how she responds.  Here, your subconscious will communicate with your conscious mind.  The information you receive could be extremely valuable in your healing process.   As you visualize helping her escape, you create the possibility for your own transformation.

3. Learn from the Character Traits of the Tarot Card

You can use tarot to develop beneficial character traits.  Look through the cards and find one that represents the personal qualities you would like to develop within yourself.  Take that card as your new significator – the card that represents you.  See yourself as that card character.  Pay attention when it comes up in readings.  Use it to help shape your sense of personal identity.

Tarot Magick

Tarot magick works in a similar way, but through manifestion of your healing desires.

4. Focus on What You Want to Manifest

Find a card that represents what you want to achieve.  Meditate on the image, keep the card on your altar, hold your body in the position of the card character, or keep the card under your pillow.  Do whatever it takes to make that image part of your own energy.  Breathe it in, hold it to your heart, visualize yourself within the image – do whatever feels right to you.  As you embrace the energy of the card, it will be made manifest it your life.

5. Banish Bad Habits or End a Negative Cycle

If there is something you want to banish from your life, tarot can help with that, too.  If you want to break a bad habit, heal from an illness or end a cycle in your life, you can choose a card to represent that which you are ready to release.  Place the card face down on the table, and affirm your power to break away from what no longer serves you.  You can even print a copy of the image and destroy it.  As you do, feel yourself being freed from what has enslaved you.

Begin Your Healing Journey Today

Even as we study the tarot cards, we can use the cards to heal.  Each card bears a spiritual lesson as well as an interpretive value.  When we embrace the spiritual message of each card, we have the opportunity to use that message to grow and heal.

Tarot inspires our creativity, increases our intuition, and offers us opportunities for communication on the deepest levels.  In all these ways and more, tarot is a profound tool for healing.

How have you used the Tarot for healing? And what have been the results? Share your comments below.

Christiana Gaudet, Certified Tarot Grandmaster, blogger at tarottrends.com and author of Fortune Stellar.