I think if you grew up in any sort of religious tradition, the tools of the psychic trade were some of the easiest to attack. And I think it’s because they are wildly misunderstood.
You want to do an experiment? Ask your friends on social media what they think of tarot cards and their use. It’s almost a certainty that someone is going to come back and call them evil or state that you need to be careful of those things or to even stay away from them.
Truth is, the tarot isn’t evil, malicious, or malevolent. They don’t open some portal to negativity and evil spirits. They are simply tools of divination that assist the reader in painting a more vivid picture for you.
The tarot is one of the most powerful tools for accessing the Divine because it helps us understand the physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental aspects of life. The tarot assists you in contacting your Higher Self,
How to be guided spiritually by the tarot
One of the main facets of the tarot is spiritual guidance and awareness. It’s not the cards themselves that are powerful because let’s be honest: they are simply images printed on heavy paper. What makes the cards work is the ability of Spirit to work through the universal symbols and images found on the cards.
In essence, tarot helps flesh out the messages we often miss from Spirit. It is a tool that allows them to communicate with us and access our higher selves thereby communicating with the spirit within all of us.
You’ve heard the phrase: “You can’t see the forest for the trees [are in the way disguising it].”
Tarot flies you above the forest so that you can not only see the trees but the terrain as well. You will find paths that you did not see through while on the ground of the forest. It is up to you to take those paths or ignore and disbelieve what you saw.
A tarot spread for spiritual guidance
I designed this spread in the pattern of a wave because spiritual journeys tend to ebb and flow.
Position 1: what have been your spiritual challenges/blockages in your past?
Position 2: how are these past blockages affecting you presently? Are they the same challenges?
Position 3: what spiritual challenges await you in the future?
Position 4: the inner gifts you have that help you help others (this can be things like singing, writing, etc).
Position 5: what spiritual gifts you can offer to others.
The more cards from the major arcana (link) that appear, the more life lesson oriented this reading will tend to be for you. Life lessons cannot be escaped, but must be undergone for spiritual growth and advancement.
We are all on a journey
No matter if you’re Christian, Jewish, Taoist, agnostic or otherwise, we are all on a spiritual journey. Even the agnostic and the secular humanist are seeking to understand how humanity interacts and counteracts itself. This, too, is a spiritual quest.
Prayer, meditation, and contemplation are all methods whereby we can take what the tarot shows us and go deeper in our understanding of our journey’s here.
