Beginner's Manual - lesson 7:
Daily draws
Doing a daily draw is first of all giving you the opportunity to truly get to know your cards, and to let them get to know you. This is where magick is born - this unexplainable thing that "makes tarot work".
Your inner and outer realms, conscious and sub-conscious are learning to be co-workers. The first and maybe even many first draws you do, you will just feel you are sitting with a card you need to learn. Maybe even with the first draw or at least eventually you will get the feeling that the cards you are drawing, just to learn, actually relates very much to your life.
So you have drawn a card and looked at it, then what are you suppose to see and know about this card? I have a daily draw worksheet, that will help you to understand what it is you are "supposed" to see.| Date of draw, your
name, how many times you had this card is easy. So is what colors you see
in the cards and what you see in the card. Element, zodiac and suit of the
card might be a bit harder - and you will learn it *S*.
Symbols in form of animals, trees, flowers, colors, people, creatures and so forth. First of all, take notes of what they symbolize to you. |
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The fun part in the DD's is to relate them to your day - if you do it in the morning, it will show you impacts you should stay aware of during the day and if you do it in the eve, the card will be your rear mirror of the day. Once you get the hang of it, it will be jolly good fun *S*.
Do 1 card a day, take 15 minutes or what time you want to set aside for it, work through that card, write anything you can think of down, and store it in your journal. When you come across a card you already had once before - embrace the invitation for renewal, treat the card as if it was the first time you ever saw it, and when done then compare notes to what you thought of it last time you had it. You will discover that what you see one day is not what comes to your mind a second day - and that my friend *S* is the beauty and diversity of tarot.
