When we think of tarot cards, we most commonly imagine some sort of mystic woman sat in front of a crystal ball, ready to unveil the secrets of your future, but tarot isn’t just for the psychics.
Many tarot readers, myself included, prefer to take more of a coach position with tarot. Instead of promising to tell you your future, we prefer to use the tarot as a guide and a framework on which to better reflect and assess our past, present and future.
This technique can be used by anyone with a tarot deck. You don’t have to be psychic, possess foresight, practice tarot for a living or be a professional reader. Using the tarot cards can be a great way to check in with yourself, identify the things that are preventing you from moving forward and realistically assessing the outcomes of your actions.
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“We want our businesses to grow and thrive as we progress, but this can be tricky, especially when it comes to having the courage to try something new.”
For business owners, especially those that work alone or from home, the tarot can become a confidant and a source of support, validation and a bluntly honest business partner. Here are just a few ways you can use a tarot deck in order to guide and grow your business.
Making tough decisions
As a business owner, making tough decisions will be pretty common, but it doesn’t mean it gets any easier. Sometimes knowing the right thing to do can be a struggle, our heads and hearts come into conflict and it can be confusing as to which one to listen to.
Using tarot cards, you can gain more understanding on how you really feel about something. You can see your subconscious thoughts reflected back to you and you’ll be able to put things into perspective in a much more efficient way. Gaining a new perspective may be just the thing you need to help you come to a final decision and allow you to better weigh the outcomes.
Deciding on a new direction
We want our businesses to grow and thrive as we progress, but this can be tricky, especially when it comes to having the courage to try something new. If you’ve got a few different ideas of directions you’d like to take, you can consult the tarot to compare the outcomes of each.
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“We can also use the cards to remind us of why we started our business in the first place and what exciting things can happen if we push forward with it. ”
The tarot can also be used to reflect back on your own skills and experience, helping you to create more ideas and plans for business growth. It’s important to remember that any future cards in a reading are simply suggestions and potential outcomes, nothing is set in stone.
There is no one way something can end, the outcome depends on lots of little details and if one thing is changed, it could go in a completely different direction than expected. Keep this in mind when using tarot to find a new direction and weigh up all your options before making final decisions.
Reigniting passion for your business
If you’ve been hustling for a while, or things are taking a little longer to get going than you would like, it can be easy to lose motivation and passion for our projects. We all reach a moment of stagnation and it can be tricky to pull ourselves out of a funk. The feeling of being lost or in a weird business limbo can hit hard, but using the tarot can help us to gain a more creative and optimistic look at things.
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“When we are working solo, we don’t have anyone reminding us about goals and targets, it’s up to us to set them and keep track of them.”
Using tarot cards, we can create readings that allow us to really appreciate everything we have accomplished and achieved in our business. We can better assess our current feelings and thoughts to truly understand why we might have hit a plateau. We can also use the cards to remind us of why we started our business in the first place and what exciting things can happen if we push forward with it.
I always find that if I’m feeling really down or defeated by business matters, a simple tarot reading will help me to see that there is so much possibility left to tap into and I come away feeling revitalised and ready to get stuck back in.
Daily task lists
My favourite way to use tarot cards is to help me create a daily task list. By using a simple three card spread, I can decide what things I need to focus on throughout the day, what I need to be mindful of and what may become an obstacle.
I always have an idea of the work I need to do, but it can really help to do a reading in the morning before I start my day, to help me prioritise.
Reviews of achievements
Do you ever give yourself a business review? These can be very useful around the six month mark, to help us keep on top of what we still want to achieve and which goals we’ve already ticked off. When we are working solo, we don’t have anyone reminding us about goals and targets, it’s up to us to set them and keep track of them.
Using tarot cards in your business reviews will help you to reflect back on how far you’ve come and how you can progress in order to meet your next set of goals. The cards help to get us out of our own heads and seeing things from a birds eye view. We can escape our conscious mind and really focus on how we feel about our business.
Plans for the future
When you don’t have a board of directors or a team of employees to sit down with, it can be daunting to hold the future of your business in your hand. You know that every decision and move you make effects the future of your business and it can be too easy to doubt yourself and the decisions you make.
I like to use tarot cards to help me project future outcomes of different decisions, laying out three or four different scenarios and plotting the outcome of each to determine which is the best to progress with.
The tarot can also become a supportive figure in this scenario, helping us to banish limiting beliefs and self-doubt that threaten to derail us. Allow the cards to comfort you and have your back when your thoughts are clouded or judgemental.