It seems as though most people are afraid of tarot. It’s like they’re in a live horror movie and the thought makes them run away.

I blame movies and I blame religion for this reaction.

In my eyes tarot is a simple, effective and sometimes beautiful way to talk to yourself and to your higher power. There’s no middle man. There’s no waiting for an answer. There’s no evil spirit jumping in my body.

It’s just me and the cards in my hands and my intuition. It’s there that I meet my inner self. It’s there that I hear my ancestors. It’s there that I speak with mother and father god.

There.

Right in that space.

How?

Because the cards usually have words or numbers and pictures or symbols and it’s just like reading a book. It’s just like reading a book because books are made up of sentences.

Each card represents an answer.

Each answer can make sentences.

For example, I say… what’s going on with my car? And I decided I want to use 3 cards to get my understanding.

My three cards now represent what happened

1. in the past with the car,

2. what’s going on with my car now, and

3. what will happen with my car in the future.

1. 2. 3.

So say it’s the 4 of cups, 2 of pentacles and the wheel of fortune card that are pulled out.

So following the formula and answering the first card question

1. I’ll realize that yes, in the past I kinda let my car sit for awhile.

I didn’t use it as often as I could’ve. I was bored with it.

2. The 2nd card is also making the answer clear with the knowledge that the 2 of pentacles is about finding balance and it pings in my mind that since the weather change, it’s true that I need to get the tire pressure checked because when I last was in the car it said that the air was low.

It needs to be balanced.

3. With the wheel of fortune being my last card, two things come to mind;

1, I might luck up and get a new one or more logically, 2, that I better get the air in my car soon because it may cause misfortune by popping or causing an accident. 

The cards have me in a conversation with myself about my car.

I’m seeing the car in a different light.

It’s a direct reflection of what’s happening right now. There’s nothing scary about it. There’s nothing ominous. It’s just a mundane reality check for myself and my car.