{"id":73,"date":"2020-03-10T14:42:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/tarot\/?p=73"},"modified":"2020-03-10T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:45:37","slug":"why-pull-a-tarot-card-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/tarot\/2020\/03\/10\/why-pull-a-tarot-card-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Why pull a tarot card every day?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I started researching the best ways to learn tarot, I\nsaw two recommendations that resonated with me. The first was to keep a tarot\njournal, and the second was to draw a card every day and think about that card\non and off throughout the day to see how \/ if the card\u2019s energy manifests in\nyour day. I was originally tracking them on a Google docs spreadsheet, but then\nit occurred to me to start sharing them on Instagram instead. I liked the\nsynergy of that, because many years ago I taught myself photography through a\nphoto-every-day project I called \u201cProject 365.\u201d I have often said it\u2019s hard NOT\nbuild technical skills when you take 10 minutes or more to practice every\nsingle day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sharing the photos to Instagram has a couple of extra\nbenefits. First, it gives me somewhere to talk about tarot, because I always\nwant to talk about tarot. Second, it pushes me to be a little bit thoughtful\nabout the card I\u2019ve pulled and the context it brings to my day. And third, I\njust like the challenge of finding a little theme to make the photo more than\njust a tarot card lying on the counter. And finally, I\u2019m starting to find a bit\nof community of people who also like to talk about tarot. (See point one\nabove.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing a card each day has been an amazing way to be\nmindful and present in my day, though. How often do we look back at an ordinary\nday and say, \u201cWhat did today mean<\/em>?\nWhat was the dominant theme of my day? What energies were at play?\u201d Sometimes\nif I don\u2019t get around to pulling the card until later in the day, I\u2019ll ask \u201cWhat\ndid I overlook today?\u201d instead. Most days, I can see clear linkages between the\ncards and the overarching mood of the day. In the days when I am bursting with\nenthusiasm and creative sparks of ideas, I\u2019ve pulled a lot of wands. Wands are\nabout the fiery, passionate energy of intuition and inspiration. When work is\nheavy on my mind, swords come up. Swords deal with intellect, mental clarity\nand communication. And to be honest, some days I just scratch my head and shrug\nwhen I try to link the card to whatever happened that day, but even then,\noccasionally with hindsight the link becomes more clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do find that pulling a single card every day doesn\u2019t give\nme the same shiver of insight and connection that more complex or intentional\nspreads have done. I think one card on its own is sort of like an appetizer; it\u2019s\nalmost like the insight is a little diluted and non-specific, and you need a\nfew cards interacting with each other to make a satisfying meal of it. It truly\nis a great way to not only learn the basic interpretations of the cards, but to\nsee what they might mean playing out in real life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you pull a daily card? How to you use it in your life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I started researching the best ways to learn tarot, I saw two recommendations that resonated with me. The first was to keep a tarot journal, and the second was to draw a card every day and think about that card on and off throughout the day to see how \/ if the card\u2019s energy … Continue reading “Why pull a tarot card every day?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/tarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/tarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/tarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/tarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/tarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/tarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/tarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/tarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/tarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/tarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}