Recognizing the Tarot as counseling would be called help, or a shorthand on the path to evolving. Whether you are stressed, feeling low, or even feel that you are lost, Tarot helps you realize whatever you are going through and assists in directing you on what to do. In the following pages of this guide, you will discover how to do healing with Tarot in a very practical but also very enabling way.
What Is Tarot?
As we are going to use Tarot to work on some feelings, I would like to make a brief note of what Tarot means. A Tarot deck has 78 cards of 2 types.
– Major Arcana:
These are 22 cards that may contain sure phases of a human being’s lifetime and potential spiritual events. These include cards like The Fool, The Tower, and The World, which come under this type.
– Minor Arcana:
The remaining 56 cards are categorized into four suits: Cups, Pentacles, Swords, and Wands. Each suit delineates some phase or sphere of life: feelings (Cups), earth matters (Pentacles), mind and strife (Swords), and tasks and aspirations (Wands).
Each card has its meaning, which can be received as a literal or metaphorical interpretation during a reading.
The correlation that can be established between tarot and feeling.
Passions are intrinsically associated with Tarot for the reason that such Tarot readings reflect what is usually happening in a person’s psyche. It is useful when it shows feelings that could not be said or shows something from a fresh angle. This is possible if Tarot is applied in a manner that promotes its function of guiding a person through emotional landmines.
But let me assure you, Tarot does have its uses, and below is how it can be of help in the emotional healing process:
1. Understanding Your Emotions:
It demonstrated to me how Tarot helps at the most fundamental level of description, of finding a name for what appears to be happening to me. A lot of the time, we are utterly baffled and cannot figure out what has befallen us. Such feelings can be well explained during a Tarot reading, and one can be informed that he or she is going through it.
2. Gaining Perspective:
This can be irritating when, for example, one seems confined to a given emotional state such as anger and thus cannot get an overview. But here’s the thing – most of the time we are not conscious of why we are feeling a certain way, and again, Tarot gives a ‘bird’s-eye view,’ which can shrink the distress and point towards the direction one needs to move in.
- Providing Comfort and Reassurance:
Few Tarot cards have the potential to offer comfort to the individuals who are in a state of confusion or grief. For instance, even when Top Drawers are dragged, an implication arises as though all is in vain and will never be better.
4. Guiding You Toward Action:
It can also be used didactically, to enlighten how some sentiment should be handled. For instance, the pull of The Hermit archetypically implies that, possibly, you have to retreat to a cave, away from others as a way of thinking.
The Three-Card Spread:
1. Card 1: First Emotion
This card is the confronting issue that defines the general situation or the first emotion you have to deal with. And it helps you to reveal what there is at the base of the present emotional state.
2. Card 2: ‘Why Am I Feeling This Way”.
This is the card that shows precisely why you are having the emotions that you are having. To some extent, it can represent everything that you are concerned with, any or some experiences that you have had, or what is happening in the present.
3. Card 3: How Can I Heal?
This can guide the reader on what he or she needs to do next, and this is clearly stated at the front of this card. It suggests lightly something you might do, an attitude you might take, or a way of thinking about stuff, and it might give a positive spin to you.
Interpreting the Cards for a Healing of the Spirit
There is nothing pragmatic or literal about using Tarot cards in therapy, but then they have little to do with allegory either. It is not just about hunting for meanings and mapping how they connect; it is about what those meanings are for you and your emotions. Here are some examples of how common Tarot cards might relate to emotional healing:
The Tower:
At times, it connects to a transfer – to a whole different level of context of the reading, or a revolution. When associated with emotional restoration, it may be the desire to experience the high-intensity emotion due to the event in progress. As in the Tower Tarot, one gets the impression that it will take time to go through this process, which might yield a new feel, but a breakthrough is expected.
The Moon:
The Moon concerns deception, the innermost self or soul, and the hidden or submerged part of one’s character. If you get this card, then the possibility arising from the message that it has to convey may be that you are allowing fears or anxieties to control your feelings. It persuades one to go for intuitions, as well as to escape and get into the psychological aspects of things.
The Empress:
The Empress is all about nutrition, fertility or reaping, and love. The fact that this card can emerge in the context of what the person needs to recover emotionally can be understood to mean not be so tough on yourself. It is a call to look after one’s self and to immerse oneself in all that is positive and loving.
Nine of Swords:
Cautious, spending nights awake, and having problems with sleep have been linked to this card. It could be causing emphasis on the nervous and emotional strain that you are feeling at this moment. Nine of Swords: you have some terrifying thoughts; yes, as you rightly observe, it is largely your mind that is causing it; the lesson is to watch out for stress.
Three of Cups:
As with the case of the majority of Tarot decks, this card represents friends, joy, and people. Perhaps, when people draw this card, they are being told it could be beneficial to call friends or relatives to help them feel better in some way. If we are to be healed physically or empowered to fight whatever we are experiencing, we must find someone to share with.
Tarot therapy, which is the process of using tarot to deal with emotional problems, is all about acceptance, regulation of emotion, and the search for the path to happiness. This approach is helpful if you are just getting started with tarot if you have dipped your toe in the water one or two times, or if you have been a tarot user to guide you through the rough seas of emotions for years.