5 Ways to Make the Cards Your Own

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Melissa Cynova, author of the new Kitchen Table Tarot.

I’ve been reading cards for nearly 30 years, and I’ve found over the years that tarot readers get into trouble when they decide that there is only one way to learn the cards. One way to study, or teach, or interpret the cards. Once you start knowing something for sure instead of wondering or gaining a new perspective, your capacity to bring in new ideas and new flavors to your readings stops cold. This can only limit you as you read for different people, engage with new communities, and read with new decks.

I’ve learned more about my cards by reading books, studying the imagery of the cards themselves, and stalking tarot folks on social media. When I teach, I’ve got a few techniques I’ve learned over the years that I share with my students. It’s one thing to learn the cards, but it’s another entirely to make them your own. Here are five ways you can do just that!

Make a playlist!I have a playlist with a song or two for each tarot card. I’ve got my songs on my website at Twelve Ways Your Chakras Can Enhance Your Decisions.”