Learning Tarot Intuitively
By Emma Sunerton-Burl
To learn your deck you can take each card and travel into it allowing the deck image to trigger within you stories and journeys that bring with them messages for your own inner development as well as for your learning of what the card can mean and say in a reading. I believe if you allow to let your deck talk to you, then the learning you gain in your own life will be invaluable and the practice in trusting your intuition and understanding your own symbols will transform your ability to read the cards for others even with cards you haven't traveled into. After a while of doing these specific journeys for yourself, you will find you can look at a card and travel within it, asking for its meaning, whilst doing a reading without elaborate visualisations and meditation, thus gaining a way to hear your own intuitive voice and knowing, as it relates to another's question.
In this article I will outline the way to go into a card at first for your own development and the understanding of a card. In future articles I will share with you some of the journeys I have done into one of the decks I use, the Sacred Circle – they will be my personal journeys asking for direct meanings to each card as well as personal information.
So take your deck of cards – having chosen one that you just like and are drawn to, and find the first card, 0 the Fool, Look at it closely and make a note of anything that comes to your mind just looking at it – the bits you like and the bits you don't and why. When you have studied the card for a few minutes and feel you can roughly remember the image you are ready to begin the meditation. Don't feel you need to remember the card in detail, anything you forget is part of the intuition, you will see the images you need to. Try to leave your judging mind behind and be open to experience whatever is there, there isn't a right or wrong image to have, there is only your image.
Then get yourself in to a comfortable position and close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths and as you breath out allow yourself to let go of tension thoughts and worries, just breath them out – for the time being you only need to focus inwards. Then imagine brilliant white light coming from the center of the earth up into your feet, slowly coming into your legs, hips, back, stomach, chest and shoulders down your arms into your finger tips and then up into your head so you are filled with light. Take your time over this allow yourself to name each part of you as the light comes into it, see the light as a supportive and gentle peaceful energy that slowly fills you. Then imagine a star up in the sky sending you the most beautiful light that enters your head and fills you body slowly until it reaches your toes. Again speak each part of your body to yourself as it fills it slowly and feel the loving healing energy that comes to you from this starlight.
Once you are filled with light from both star and ground, imagine a staircase in front of you going upwards and walk up the stairs, getting lighter in weight as you do. At the top see the card in front of you as a doorway, go through the door into the card. Notice how you feel in the card – the temperature, the weather, the emotional feel of the card. Look around and see what images are there, and see them moving, being and doing what they do. As you take in the scene allow it to develop into a story, unfolding into whatever it does. You can walk up to any object, person or animal and ask it/them to tell you what its meaning is in the card and what message it might have for you.
Allow yourself to go to the places you are drawn to in the card and explore them. Ask questions when you don't understand or want to know something and allow the answer to come to you. You may feel like you are making it all up and its just your imagination – do not worry about this – just take things as they are without judgment when you return from the journey you can discern what you wish to take and what you wish to leave.
When you have journeyed enough thank the characters in the card and see a doorway of light in front of you as you walk through this doorway you find yourself at the top of the stairs, which you walk down – feeling heavier and heavier as you do. When you reach the bottom see yourself in a bubble of golden light and then slowly bring your attention back to the room.
It is good to record your journey straight away – either by drawing or writing or both so you have a record of how the journey went and any message that were given to you. Once done you can leave it and come back a read it a few days or a week later and see how what you received had relevance in your life. Doing a card a week is enough or even one a month to give each card a chance to work with you in a personal way. You may find after a visualisation such as this things come to you while relaxing, or about to fall asleep at night or in your dreams – make a note of anything that comes to you in this way. A picture will be building of the scope of your card as well as of what you need to be focusing on in your life at the time.
There is a more detailed account of the Light Visualisation on my website and I welcome any comments on this article or the visualisations you do following this method. Also you can read past months card journeys on my website (see below) under 'card of the month' where you can also sign up to receive the full journey each month by email for free if you wish.
I have been reading tarot for 18 years, I have made several visualisation cassettes to help people develop their intuition and gain great psychic awareness in their lives. I offer readings face to face in North Wales, telephone, email and absent readings all recorded onto CD. Fully confidential service. See my website, Psychic Tarot readings (http://www.empowering-tarot-readings.co.uk) for details of readings, visualisations, tarot training and card of the month.http://www.seeds-of-light.co.uk
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Love and blessings to you all
Emma Sunerton-Burl
Intuitive Psychic and Healer
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