Doing a daily tarot reading can help you to self-reflect, to have guidance, and to work towards personal growth. These readings can be amazing, but you need to make sure that you are doing them right. While many see them as unnecessary or too simple, doing a daily card pull can have a huge purpose in your life as long as you do it with the right intentions.
The important part is to understand why you want to do a daily card pull. By aligning this card with your goals, you can get the most out of what the cards have for you.
Do You Really Need to Pull a Card Daily?
One myth about being a tarot card reader is that you have to do a daily card pull. This isn’t true. Some readers don’t do daily card pulls; they just do their readings with intentions or focus. These are readers that focus on quality over quantity. Just like you wouldn’t just read one random page each day hoping to find out some big secret, you shouldn’t practice tarot by just doing it once in a while. Each time you do a tarot reading, it should have an intention and a purpose.
That said, if you’re new to tarot card reading or you want to make a stronger connection with the cards, daily reading can help you become more confident and familiar with the cards. The secret is to make sure that your heart and mind are open and that you are curious about what the cards can tell you.
Why Are You Pulling a Card?
Before pulling a card, ask yourself: What is my intention? Your reason doesn’t have to be profound, but it should be clear. This ensures that the reading has meaning and prevents you from turning to tarot as a crutch for decision-making.
Consider these three broad categories for daily tarot pulls:
- Learning About the Cards
- Seeking Daily Guidance
- Personal Empowerment
Learning About the Cards
Doing a daily tarot pull is one great way that you can get to know the cards. If you are new at doing tarot readings, this is one of the best things for you to try. Each card has symbols, images, and energies, and you need to learn the cards and learn them well. Doing a daily pull encourages you to get to know your deck. Even if you don’t know the meaning right away, keep practicing until you do.
Tips for Learning the Cards
- The best way to learn about cards is to take time to study each detail of the card. What does the image look like? What stands out to you? How does this challenge you? What is the traditional meaning of the card?
- Focus on the card and pay attention to your senses and emotions. Does the card make you see, feel, hear, smell, or taste anything? What is your intuition telling you?
- Notice the connection that the cards have with the other cards in the deck. Does it share the same number, symbol, or element that other cards have? How does the relationship of the cards have a meaning?
The rule of “practice makes perfect” is the same for tarot reading. As you practice, you will build a strong foundation in your tarot reading. Even great readers can benefit from doing daily tarot pulls as they learn the layers of the meanings of the cards. This can also help to build your intuition, no matter how good you are!
Getting Daily Guidance
Some tarot readers will use daily pulls as a way to know what their day holds for them. They can read the cards and see the insights and the energies throughout their day. This works best if you set an intention or if you have the right question to ask.
Instead of asking the question, “What is going to happen today,” here are some questions that you could ask:
- What kind of energy do I need for my day?
- What opportunities should I pay attention to?
- What challenges will come in my path today, and how can I be prepared?
The Importance of Specificity
Just like any other reading, being more specific in your questions can help you to get the answers that you’re seeking. Asking vague questions will get you a vague answer. If you pull the Tower card, for example, you might feel overwhelmed without having information as to why you pulled the card. But if you had asked a question about overcoming challenges in your life and you pulled the card, it can represent the opportunity for change.
Take Time to Reflect
As you get guidance from the cards, make sure that you take time to reflect on how the message of the card played out throughout your day. Did the energy align with what you experienced? Did the card give you advice that helped you, or did it change your perspective on things? Doing a daily pull can deepen your understanding of the meaning of the cards, but it can also help you to trust your intuition.
Personal Empowerment
Tarot is more than just a tool for predicting things; it can also be a way to gain personal empowerment. When you use tarot cards and set your intentions, it can help you to embrace the energies around you and to make positive changes.
Using Tarot for Empowerment
Tarot cards can empower people to connect with their inner strength and take control of their lives. Instead of just using tarot to predict events, focusing on empowerment can help people become more self-aware and know what actions to take.
Each of the cards can reflect your strengths, challenges, and the opportunities that can arise in your life and encourage you to be in charge of your journey. Pulling The Magician card, for example, can remind you to use your resources and to manifest what you need, while The High Priestess card might tell you that you need to trust your intuition more.
Tarot can give you power because it isn’t just for predicting things, but it is also about aligning yourself and your energies. You can do this by learning to identify the energies around the card and then aligning yourself with the energy. The Sun card, for example, might make you focus on being more positive and interacting with others.
As you notice and face challenges head-on, you can see these challenges as more than a problem but an opportunity. The Five of Swords card might suggest that there is conflict in your life, but it can also encourage you to set boundaries and to stand up for yourself.
Use the tarot cards in your spells and rituals. Pulling the Ace of Cups card can mean that you need to attract love or that you need to be more creative in your life. Use the talisman to make that happen!
By approaching tarot in this way, you can personally engage with the cards and be more intentional in how you live. This is a way that you can engage with the cards and add them to your daily life schedule.
Make Your Daily Readings Better!
If you are having a hard time being inspired by your daily pulls, here are some questions that you can ask to get started and to get you on point:
- What energy will I see in my day?
- What lessons will I learn today?
- What should I be looking for?
- What challenges might I face, and how can I work through them?
- What cards show what my emotional state is in the present?
By asking these kinds of questions, you will keep doing readings that are engaging and helpful for your life.
Common Mistakes in Daily Tarot Readings
Daily tarot pulls can be very valuable, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any mistakes that come with it. To avoid these mistakes, the best thing that you can do is to make sure that you have a clear purpose before you even go to pull a card, that you use tarot for reflection and not making decisions, and that you focus on the traditional meaning of the card and how it applies to your life and that you follow up with the message that the card gives you.
By being mindful of what you face head-on each day and the challenges in front of you, you need to make sure that your tarot reading is meaningful and helpful.
Daily Pull Cards
There are 72 cards in a deck of tarot, and there are some cards that are more often to show up than others. Here are 10 cards that might show up in your reading:
The Fool
- Upright: New beginnings, spontaneity, adventure, innocence, and unlimited potential.
- Reversed: Recklessness, hesitation, poor judgment, or fear of taking a leap.
The Magician
- Upright: Manifestation, resourcefulness, creativity, and the power to turn ideas into reality.
- Reversed: Manipulation, deception, untapped potential, or lack of confidence.
The High Priestess
- Upright: Intuition, mystery, hidden knowledge, and spiritual insight.
- Reversed: Secrets revealed, ignoring intuition, or disconnected from inner wisdom.
The Empress
- Upright: Abundance, nurturing, fertility, creativity, and connection to nature.
- Reversed: Blocked creativity, dependence, neglect, or overbearing tendencies.
The Emperor
- Upright: Authority, structure, stability, discipline, and leadership.
- Reversed: Rigidity, domination, lack of control, or a struggle with authority.
The Lovers
- Upright: Love, harmony, partnership, choices, and alignment of values.
- Reversed: Misalignment, imbalance in relationships, difficult decisions, or temptation.
The Chariot
- Upright: Determination, willpower, success, and overcoming obstacles.
- Reversed: Lack of direction, losing control, or feeling overwhelmed.
Strength
- Upright: Inner strength, courage, patience, and compassion.
- Reversed: Self-doubt, lack of self-control, or suppressed anger.
The Tower
- Upright: Sudden upheaval, chaos, revelation, and transformation.
- Reversed: Fear of change, avoiding disaster, or a slow dismantling of illusions.
The Sun
- Upright: Joy, vitality, success, positivity, and enlightenment.
- Reversed: Temporary setbacks, lack of clarity, or unrealistic expectations.
These cards are just a starting point of learning tarot. The interpretation of the cards will depend on your situation and the context that surrounds the cards. That is the great thing about tarot and the cards because it allows the reader to use both the traditional meaning of the cards and their intuition.
Daily Pulls for Advanced Readers
If you have already been doing daily pull readings, there are more advanced techniques and spreads that you can use to make your tarot readings even deeper. Here are some ideas:
- Pulling multiple cards: Instead of just pulling one card, try pulling three and seeing what they say and how they fit together. This can even be done in the morning, afternoon, and evening to get a reading for the whole day.
- Deck pairing: You can use more than one deck so that you can use different themes to do your reading.
- Journaling: Always take time to write down in detail about your tarot readings, even with a daily pull. This can help you to reflect on your readings later on.
Final Thoughts
Doing tarot readings isn’t just about predicting the future; it’s about growth and change. You can use these readings to connect with your inner self as you explore your energy and the energy around you. This can give you a deeper understanding of yourself and others.
The best thing about doing a daily tarot reading is learning to set intentions. Whether you’re new at tarot cards and you are just learning the cards or you are seeking guidance for your life, make sure that you go into each reading with an open heart and mind. By being curious, you will make a stronger connection with the deck and with the world around you.