All the answers you seek are within you. You just need to attune yourself to find them. Tarot can help with this.

We all look to outside sources for advice on how to live better, and how to be better. This is normal and it is necessary. Tarot helps people look within their selves for these things, so that they may put them out into world so that the world is made that much stronger for these knowings.

It is best to have a tarot deck with images and symbols that really resonate with you. This way, as you look at these images and symbols, your intuition and your knowings really kick in. If they do not resonate with you, you are left to decipher the words and images on the card, taking you out of intuition and into intellect.

If something doesn’t resonate with you, you are not going to get much out of it. So, when learning to read Tarot, make sure you have a personal understanding of each card.

Tarot’s true power is not in reading the cards and assigning an occurrence to it. That is to say, reading the cards and saying, “Oh yeah, that is just like when…” but rather observing an event and/or occurrence and recognizing the archetypes that the event represents without even needing the card. When you are able to do this, you have a powerful language with which to interpret your life and your world. You also have a valuable tool with which to handle situations and problems as they arise. You will have the level mind, you will be the level headed one when all about you are going crazy. This will give you an appreciable amount of personal power.

The past is fuel for the chariot. As a fool, activate the chariot and aim for your star.

There is the person you are and the person you are meant to become. When the two are in alignment, you awaken and are said to be “Enlightened.” Tarot can shed light on this for you. It can offer clues as to who you are, who you have been, who you are becoming, and who you are meant to be. It really is all in the questions you ask. When you ask clear questions, you can expect clear answers.

What lessons can you learn from the archetypes of tarot? If you consider each card to be a piece of who you are, then each card has an embedded lesson to be considered. By considering each card you can be the best version of yourself. By embodying the greatest ideal of each archetype, you can be the most powerful being you are able to be. Consider which archetypes are the strongest within you. Consider which you would benefit by strengthening. What can you do to strengthen what pieces of you that need to be strengthened?

Reading tarot cards must be done contextually. What a card means in one context, may not make sense in another. Therefore, how can only book-defined meaning make sense to all situations? This is why it is important to be able to come up with your own meanings as they apply to the situations you are reading for.

One who is aware of their own power is powerful indeed.

When you read the typical meaning of each card in the little booklet that comes with the deck, you get recycled interpretations that are aimed at the lowest common denominator. These meaning are rudimentary and basic, and that’s all they are meant to be. There is nothing wrong with them. They provide good kick starters for your own intuition, and should be used as such. If you try to force their meaning into your own paradigm of what you are seeking guidance on, you will likely end up feeling unsatisfied. Find what it really truly means to you to completely benefit from its power.

If something doesn’t resonate with you, you are not going to get much out of it. So, when learning to read Tarot, make sure you have a personal understanding of each card.