How do you create a daily Tarot practice?
A daily Tarot practice doesn't have to be time consuming, it can be as quick as you need it to be. How is that possible? Let me show you...
WORDS: Cat Crawford
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Creating a daily Tarot reading practice can benefit you in a mountain of different ways, including:
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Feeling more confident in your capabilities
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Feeling more grounded and present in your daily life
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Feeling more self-assured about what you want to achieve
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Feeling more secure in uncertain or turbulent times
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Feeling less out of control of your own life
And this is just the tip of the iceberg, the surface-level benefits that you’ll start to see and experience day to day. Long-term daily Tarot can even help completely shift the way you see the world, transform how you see yourself or even how successful you are in your endeavours.
This guide will show you how you can make a start by creating a daily Tarot practice.
Don’t be fooled by the name though, these ideas are transferable to other divination cards such as Oracle cards, it’s up to you and your personal preference on which type of deck you use.
"“These things will help you understand the ‘how’ of your daily tarot readings.”
Creating a daily Tarot practice with intention and purpose
First things first, create a routine with intention and purpose. The key to this is knowing exactly what you need from your daily Tarot practice. Everybody is different so one routine may work for one person and be a terrible fit for another.
In order to decide what you want your Tarot practice to bring to the table, ask yourselves these three simple questions:
What am I lacking in my current self-care practice?
What do I often lose sight of or forget about?
How much time in my schedule am I able to make for this daily practice?
What am I lacking in my current self-care practice?
This question aims to show you what you might be overlooking in your current self-care practice. Maybe you don’t even have one to begin with!
When answering this question, think about what you give to others that you don’t give to yourself. Maybe even what you give to things like work, hobbies etc.
For example, you may find that all of your mental energy goes into thinking about work, in which case you would note ‘mental energy’ as something you are currently lacking and need to divert into your self-care routines.
Once you’ve got an answer to this – or answers plural – write them down in a notebook or journal. These things will help you understand the ‘how’ of your daily tarot readings. This means that you can create spreads or conduct readings that focus on those specific parts of your life or even day.
For example, if I identified that I was lacking mental energy in my self-care routine, I may choose to use my cards as a meditative tool, picking a card and meditating on its messages.
If you find that you are lacking more emotional energy, then you may choose to journal about the emotions that come up when you pull a card or use your cards to inspire a creative outlet like painting or creative writing.
What do I often lose sight of or forget about?
These things are often the things our subconscious wants to protect us from or hide from us. We might not consciously realise we’re avoiding something or we may be choosing to ignore it. Either way, these things are often what need our attention the most.
“We might not consciously realise we’re avoiding something or we may be choosing to ignore it. Either way, these things are often what need our attention the most. ”
When creating a daily tarot routine, these things need to form the ‘why’. Whatever answers you uncover from asking yourself this question will be why you need to create this daily practice.
Maybe you often lose sight of what you already have in favour of coveting what you don’t. In which case your ‘why’ would be gratitude. Your practice is needed because you need to bring more gratitude and self-awareness into your daily life.
How much time in my schedule am I able to make for this daily practice?
Time, we all seem to need more of it, or do we? Just some small shifts and readjustments could give us an extra 5 minutes here or another 15 there.
It’s important your daily Tarot routine can fit in with the things that take priority. Understanding how much time you have to spend will give you a clear answer to when you can do this daily routine.
The best way to figure this bit out is to keep a daily diary for a few days.
Make a note of how long you spend on certain tasks and see if there is anywhere that you could speed up or use your time more efficiently.
Do not slip into the glorification of busyness. Being ‘busy’ is often seen as an indicator of importance, the busier you are the more important you are.
This is not true.
Be 100% honest with yourself and your time expenditure, you’re not trying to prove anything to anyone, you’re simply mapping out your days to see where you could fit your daily tarot readings.
“It’s important your daily Tarot routine can fit in with the things that take priority.”
Making the routine stick
Consistency is key in making any routine stick. It’s believed that it can take around 21 days to form a habit, so use this as a rule of thumb when getting started with any new daily practice.
Now that you’ve answered those questions from earlier, you should know why you are creating a daily tarot reading routine, how that routine should look and when to sit down and do the routine from start to finish.
Write down your routine step by step, and make it simple and easy to follow so anyone can do it. This makes it super easy to get into a rhythm and ensures a greater level of success in making it stick.
Try and aim for the same time every day if you can. Again, this just helps to tell the conscious and subconscious mind when it’s time to press pause and focus on your reading.
It can take up to 28 days to form a habit and even longer to make it stick, so if you fall off the wagon one or two days here and there, don’t beat yourself up about it.
“The best way to ensure you stick to your daily tarot practice is by making sure you see results.”
Tracking your daily Tarot’s benefits
Any routine is only valuable if it benefits you in some way, otherwise, why else would you continue to do it?
Before you start your routine, take a second to just centre yourself. Think about how your body feels, what’s happening inside your mind, whether your mood is low or whether you’re stressing about anything in particular. I recommend jotting down a couple of bullet points just to get it out into the open, the Energetic Tarot Journal is great for this.
Once you’re finished with your routine, go back and do the same checks again. Make a mental or physical note of what’s changed, whether you feel better or whether you feel worse.
One thing I will say is remember that you are ever-changing. Your goals will change, your priorities will change and all of these changes can affect your why. Remember that ‘why’ you discovered earlier? That won’t be your why forever and that’s ok.
Make sure to set time aside every few months to do a quick check to see if your intention and purpose behind your daily practice is still aligned. If not, how could you recalibrate your routine to better suit who you are now?
Start your daily tarot reading practice today
There’s no time like the present, so why not get going on your daily Tarot practice today? To help you do just that, I’ve created a free workbook that you can download and fill in.
This workbook is called ‘7 Days of Daily Tarot Readings’ and it focuses on one card tarot pulls every day for 7 days. This is ideal for getting the ball rolling and proving just how much of an impact working with the cards can have on your well-being.
All you have to do is fill in the form below and the workbook will be sent straight to your email inbox.