Rick Posted April 7, 2022 Posted April 7, 2022 So I've started the on-line course suggested, and feel very comfortable, I love learning something new. My cards come tomorrow, and I fancy the idea of a daily challenge, and reading. Did anyone else do a daily reading (one card) at the start, and take the full time suggested to learn the cards they picked? Did anyone get many repeats, and if so would you leave them out next time, or just carried on? Finally, did anyone keep a diary of the events please? Thanks all Rick. Sorry, but how do you get an avatar set up please?
joy Posted April 7, 2022 Posted April 7, 2022 Hello @Rick this post is better suited in the Forum: Tarot Talk & Technique. I will move it 🙂
Raggydoll Posted April 7, 2022 Posted April 7, 2022 When I was learning, I remember focusing on a single card at a time and writing down thoughts and keywords. I didn’t pull a random card each day to focus on, I think I did them in order. It took me a while to grasp the cards as a whole and to understand the suits and the majors. At the very beginning of my learning, I didn’t have access to internet (this was before internet was readily available to the general public 😄) and the books I could find on my library wasn’t particularly good. So that made it challenging. When I finally was able to use the internet and was eventually able to order books online, a whole new world opened up to me 🥳 I didn’t really keep a diary other than the tarot notebook where I wrote down keywords. You should be able to change your avatar as soon as you have 5 posts. If you click your profile and then click on the avatar, you should see the option for uploading a picture. We also have a technical support area on this forum if you need further help with that: https://www.thetarotforum.com/forums/forum/19-technical-forum-assistance/
DanielJUK Posted April 7, 2022 Posted April 7, 2022 Hi @Rick After your introduction thread, when you want to discuss something or ask a question, you look for the right area of the forum and post it in that area. It will get much more interest to be in the right area for it. Also I changed your title a little to explain what you are asking about, so that someone browsing the forum quickly knows what this thread is about 🙂 . Don't worry you will get use to the forum! This area is perfect for your question about daily reads and for any general tarot discussions about techniques or advice on using it
stephanelli Posted April 20, 2022 Posted April 20, 2022 On 4/7/2022 at 6:29 PM, Rick said: Did anyone else do a daily reading (one card) at the start, and take the full time suggested to learn the cards they picked? Did anyone get many repeats, and if so would you leave them out next time, or just carried on? Finally, did anyone keep a diary of the events please? Hi Rick, I know you asked this question a while ago but I thought I'd reply now anyway. I draw a daily card every morning, its a nice way to start the morning. I don't use the RWS deck, but a gentler, more positive deck because that's what I need right now. I keep a diary of my draws, and have done so now since the start of 2021. I get a lot of repeats, but the repeats vary throughout the year and in 2021 I drew every card at least once. I keep them in the deck for the next day because I'm not doing it learn the cards but to get a message. But the cards do relate to things I need to know in my life or things that will happen that day. In the deck I'm using there's one card that's essential message for me always boils down "get off your backside and do things, don't be lazy!" And its always exactly the message I need to hear when its my morning card, so now I know its going to be a day I struggle to find motivation, but that if I just get up and do something, it'll feel better than doing nothing! With one of my other decks, the Wildwood Tarot, I am following a book that takes you through the cards vaguely in order, following the seasons (my spiritual practise is hevily based around the seasons). With this deck, I am doing it to learn each card and the seasons so I don't repeat cards, I just go to the next one. The 78 cards are spread out over the whole year so it feels less time consuming than doing a card every day, most weeks its just one or two cards, although there are more at the solstices, equinox and cross-quarter festivals. But its a nice way of doing it!
Rick Posted April 22, 2022 Author Posted April 22, 2022 Thank you for the kind reply. I'm having a real struggle with my readings, as I don't seem to have that insight Stefanelli, to read the cards a many do. It's gotten to be very frustrating to be honest. But I'm still doing a one card reading every day, but falling short. Best wishes Richard.🥰
stephanelli Posted April 22, 2022 Posted April 22, 2022 52 minutes ago, Rick said: Thank you for the kind reply. I'm having a real struggle with my readings, as I don't seem to have that insight Stefanelli, to read the cards a many do. It's gotten to be very frustrating to be honest. But I'm still doing a one card reading every day, but falling short. Best wishes Richard.🥰 I'll be honest, when I first started reading daily, I did the daily draws but struggled to get them to fit my day at all, similar to your frustrations. Perhaps you could try a slightly longer spread, once or twice a week? You could ask "what will happen in the next seven days?" and then draw 3 cards, and interpret them as an event that will happen and then check back in at the end of the week and see which came true. If you want more context which can make it easier to interpret the cards, you could ask about a specific area of your life - e.g. relationships, finance, family, spiritual, a particular hobby etc. I found the best way to get better was to simply use the cards often. Join in the exchange circles here on the forum - the newbies one is particularly wonderful and very welcoming to new readers as the name suggests.
sweeneyish Posted April 22, 2022 Posted April 22, 2022 I wanted to second @stephanelli here - There are so many different ways to learn the Tarot, but for me it was all about reading - Reading for myself, reading for others, reading for news articles, finding funny questions to ask - Just learning the cards by reading. I'm a hands on learner, so this was the best way for me. Then it's always exciting when you draw a card you haven't drawn yet - Ooo, I get to learn about this one! Of course, other people may prefer to go through the deck card by card, but for me using the deck in practice was so helpful. The other thing I would say is that I think it takes awhile for 1. Your readings to get accurate and 2. For your brain to start to learn how to connect the cards to the questions and stories you are asking. A lot of mental gymnastics happen when you look at a card and start to connect the imagery with your life and situations. I think it's like a muscle you have to work. Even if it feels like you aren't getting anywhere, every time you draw a card and try to make those connections, you're getting better at it, and one day everything will just click.
DanielJUK Posted April 22, 2022 Posted April 22, 2022 I dug out two old threads on the forum about daily readings, I thought they might be helpful in how others used them..... and be kind on yourself! When you are starting out, it's frustrating! But think of like a learning journey, you have to discover what methods and directions work for you, as well as learning a whole new language (in a sort of way!) with the card images. I really made the biggest progress in the first 12 months but some people hit a learning block and you suddenly realise you have improved after about 6 months, keep practising! If you feel you want to do exchanges with someone else with about 3 cards and feel ready for that sometime in the future, do come and join us in the Newbies circle. Each month's exchange which @stephanelli recommended begins at the start of each month
Rick Posted April 23, 2022 Author Posted April 23, 2022 Very kind again, but I feel a bit of a fraud against others that seem to "get something meaningful" out of what I see was a simple card, with a picture on, and I mean no offence by that. Sending all my warm wishes. Richard.
stephanelli Posted April 23, 2022 Posted April 23, 2022 21 minutes ago, Rick said: Very kind again, but I feel a bit of a fraud against others that seem to "get something meaningful" out of what I see was a simple card, with a picture on, and I mean no offence by that. Sending all my warm wishes. Richard. It's easy for me to say and hard for you to do, but learn to trust your knowledge and your reading and believe that you can do this. You're not a fraud, you're just learning. I know I doubted my readings when I first started reading. Don't worry about the intuitive side of things yet, a good grasp of the basics is the most important thing. You don't need a whole paragraph from each card, especially in the beginning. Even now, I do readings for myself that have either a list of keywords or a single sentence. Or sometimes just one word if that's all I need to understand the message from the card. If you're stuck you can always post your readings on the forum for extra help and insight. One of the downsides of daily draws is that the card meanings can often be weakened. Let's take the Death card as an example. This card signifies endings, transitions, eliminations. In a big reading, not a daily draw, I would expect it to more likely pack a punch and be important in the context (if it was a relationship reading, I'd say that the relationship is likely to end for example), but in a daily reading, that effect will be weakened. It could still signify the end of something major, but it could equally signify the end of your favourite TV show, the end of the book you just finished reading. An interesting exercise is to boil each card down to it's essence. (I learnt this from trying Lenormand cards.) You condense the meanings down until it is just one word. The essence of Death, for me, is Transitions (because that encompasses both the ending and the new beginning that comes with it). It can be interesting to work through all the cards and do this, but particularly the majors. It is okay if your essence word is different to someone elses. Sorry this message got a little long, I just wanted to give you some ideas on other ways you could work with and learn the cards!
Rick Posted April 23, 2022 Author Posted April 23, 2022 Never too long from you, thanks again. Maybe I'll go to every other day, and then a weekly one on Sunday, when I have less to do?
stephanelli Posted April 23, 2022 Posted April 23, 2022 8 minutes ago, Rick said: Never too long from you, thanks again. Maybe I'll go to every other day, and then a weekly one on Sunday, when I have less to do? That would work - its whatever works for you!
Rupicapra Posted April 24, 2022 Posted April 24, 2022 Hi @Rick, sometimes I find it easier to draw a card in the evening to help me think about e.g. what was a lesson of the the day or what was the most important thing of the day. I find that by looking back I find it easier to connect the card to an event or an emotion, which helps me to learn the cards and their meanings over different contexts. Plus, I don't have that much time in the mornings, by the time the coffee kicked in and I can produce semi-coherent thoughts I have to get myself to work. But a little change in routine might maybe stop you from getting frustrated.
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