How do you begin to trust your intuition as a tarot reader?

Some tips to stay grounded when you feel like you're just making it all up as you go along.

Are you ever confused by your tarot reading?

“How do I know what I’m actually seeing in the cards?” you might wonder.

I know it’s not always easy to read for yourself. Especially when you’re feeling scattered across so many areas of life.

When I ask people why they want to read tarot, the Number One reason I hear is, “I want to develop my intuition.”

So many of us want to experience trust and alignment within ourselves, and the universe. And tarot can be an amazing way to open up to that.

But that kind of insight doesn’t come automatically for most people. It takes practice, and that’s okay: So many of us are taught to do what everyone else wants us to do. How can we expect to be so attuned to our inner voices when we haven’t been encouraged to listen to them?

When I teach tarot, one of the things that I help my students overcome is the pressure to magically know what the cards are saying right away.

Intuition does play a role in tarot reading. But it’s not the only thing to focus on in your development as a tarot reader. I actually think that sometimes intuition can be over-emphasized in tarot development if it completely ignores the presence of tarot itself.

What do I mean by that?

Some people expect that laying out a few cards will get their “intuition going” somehow, just by being on the table.

But tarot is full of information, and learning how to glean that information from the cards themselves – including their symbols and imagery, and the structure and historical context of tarot – is how you can start to piece together a solid reading.

It’s also how you can cut through the confusion you might feel when you are making an interpretation.

Knowing what to look for your cards and relying on tarot as a visual guide helps your interpretations to be grounded in something concrete. When you learn to read your cards and rely on what they’re showing you, your confidence as a reader grows because you’re not pulling answers out of thin air, or relying on intuitive skills that you haven’t developed yet.

Your intuition will grow as you gain confidence understanding what it is that tarot is showing you.

But it begins with the cards themselves.

That’s what I teach in Tarot Foundations: How to read every card in the tarot, and how to take into account tarot’s history and structure to inform your readings. By the end of the course, you will know how to read cards in combination with each other in order to answer a range of questions.

Hope to see you in class.

~ Liz

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