Personal Development and Tarot
As a Tarot reader, I’ve used my cards to answer a lot of ‘outward looking’ questions – anything from locating stolen property to predicting real estate purchases. Of course, the Tarot are wonderful for answering this type of question, but they are also perfectly suited to answering ‘inward looking’ questions. In other words, they are useful for examining our motivations, thoughts and emotions. For someone like myself, interested in personal development, they are a veritable gold mine of information!
I first became aware of this when I was still in the learning stages with Tarot card books. I’d read that it is important to take note of any patterns we see in the cards, and of the interactions of the cards. As you know, it’s often the case that an individual will repeatedly draw a certain card that acts as a ’significator’ – a card that represents them in a spread. In my own case,while a friend might repeatedly draw the King of Wands, etc, the Queen of Swords most often came up.
But what, I wondered, could this tell me about myself? And how useful could this information be? Over time,I found more interesting answers.
When a Tarot spread indicated that others are seeing me as the Queen of Wands, for example, I can interpret this in a number of ways (by queuing on this Queen and the other cards involved). My confidence may intimidate Others or they may feel that I can be looked to for honest answers. If I’m seen as the Queen of Cups, they may think I’m a ‘push-over’ or see me as artistic. And if I am the Queen of Pentacles, there’s a chance they feel I’m too materialistic or admire my parenting techniques. Knowing this,to open dialogue on common ground, depending on the situation, I can make the choice to use these interpretations to adjust my behavior.
