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Plan Your Trip with Tarot
Charmaine Frapp shares a fun way to use tarot to plan your next trip!
It is common to seek answers from Tarot concerning when to travel, but do you use Tarot to plan your trip? Tarot cards can determine your travel location and itinerary! Here are instructions on how to conduct your own Travel Reading with Tarot:
Step 1: Draw Your Guide Card
First, draw your Guide Card. This card determines what part of the world you will explore and what your travel mission is. Draw one Major Arcana Card and place it in front of you to meditate on throughout your reading.
Cards meaning international travel are: The Fool, The Magician, Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man, Death, The Tower, The Moon, The Sun, The World, and The Chariot. Cards meaning domestic travel are: The Heigh Priestess, The Empress, Strength, Justice, Temperance, The Devil, The Star, Judgement, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, and The Hermit.
Step 2: Draw Your 2 Location Cards
Next, shuffle your deck then draw until you come onto a Minor Arcana card. Draw two cards and place them under your Guide Card. Use Italy (home of early tarot decks) as your center point for international travel and your own location as the starting point for domestic travel.
● Swords represent a North location
● Cups are South
● Wands are East
● Coins are West
For example, if you draw 3 of Coins and 10 of Swords, that is a Northwest location. You could consider destinations in France, Norway, or even Canada. If you are traveling domesticaly from New York, you might visit Washington or Oregon!
Step 3: Draw 4 Itinerary Cards
Now, plan your trip itinerary! Draw four Minor Arcana cards and arrange them in a row underneath your Location Cards. The suit of each card dicates what type of plan to arrange.
● Card 1 represents food
● Card 2 is lodging
● Card 3 is daytime activities
● Card 4 is nightlife
Each card’s suit dictates your plans:
Swords are intellectual which means schedule a trip to a state-of-the-art restaurant, book your stay close to a stimulating city, visit historical landmarks, and at night seek out plays or lectures. You are adding to your repertoire of cultural knowledge. Push yourself to explore the intellectual terrain and do research to uncover your location’s history!
Cups are emotional so eat at down-home, hyper-local locations, book your stay with a host you feel connected to, go on outings where you can make friends like a local tour, hike, or picnic in the park. At night, try for a small music event at a cafe. The focus should be on your inner-state rather than on trying to get to every landmark or check things off an itinerary.
Wands are spiritual in nature, so if you draw a wand, eat unfamiliar or exotic food, book a mysterious and enchanting room for yourself, and visit spiritual buildings or powerful natural landmarks like a garden or lake where you can meditate on your Guide Card. At night, go for a new experience that is representative of where you are: where do locals go?
Coins are material, so if you draw a Coin card that means this aspect of your trip is about pampering and indulgence! Eat comfort food, stay somewhere lush and clean, visit spas or relax at beaches during the day, or pay for an exciting adventure like a trek, ropes course, or bike tour! At night, eat fancy dinners or turn in early to watch movies and order room service.
Conclusion
As you plan your trip, use your Guide Card to zero in on your plans, work out the kinks of your itinerary, and inspire your itinerary choices. Who knows, you could end up fly-fishing in Timbuktu… Bon voyage, dear Traveler!
Shooting for the stars: Introvert? Extrovert? Chart your tarot
Tabitha Dial joins our Community Blog with an intricate and personal discussion of social energy, tarot and astrology.
Astrology charts your social energy
Some astrologers find a correspondence between natal chart planets, their positions and a person's likelihood of being an introvert or extrovert.
Gemini does not default to extrovert.
The best way to gauge what kind of energy someone has around social involvement involves looking at where different aspects fall on the chart.
According to my astrological chart, I am equal parts inclined to be an extrovert or introvert. I have Gemini Rising and Moon, and certainly love to communicate and enjoy technology and travel.
I was rather introverted as a young gal, and kids were cruel ... I worked hard to open up to others and befriend everyone I could, to avoid feeling like an outsider.
Your Birth Chart meets Tarot
Astrolabe provides quick, free birth charts, though they aren't the best substitute for real astrologers, who can elaborate on what your chart means, and answer specific questions.
To show how Tarot correlates to astrological birth charts, I'm sharing my birth chart.
Sources: The 36 Decans illustrated in resources such as Holistic Tarot by Benebell Wen. Amelia Quint inspired the bulk of these cards.
Rising Sign is in 05 Degrees Gemini
The Lovers
Sun is in 03 Degrees Pisces.
The Moon
The Moon in Tarot Mucha is a favorite rendition of the card.
Moon is in 00 Degrees Gemini.
The Magician
Mercury is in 20 Degrees Pisces.
The Page of Cups
Venus is in 15 Degrees Aries.
Four of Wands
Mars is in 06 Degrees Virgo.
Knight of Pentacles
Jupiter is in 05 Degrees Virgo.
Nine of Pentacles
Saturn is in 25 Degrees Virgo.
Two of Pentacles
In the interest of showing all the cards in my chart, I didn't try to place them where they should be, exactly.
Uranus is in 25 Degrees Scorpio.
Four of Cups
Neptune is in 22 Degrees Sagittarius.
The Fool
Pluto is in 21 Degrees Libra.
Justice
"For your entire generation, this is a time of radical changes in society's attitude toward marriage and interpersonal relationships. There is a general fear and awe at the power inherent in making emotional or contractual commitments -- they will not be entered into lightly." --Astrolabe
N. Node is in 29 Degrees Leo.
Strength crossed by Ace of Wands
The North Node determines soul purpose or direction. I initially chose the Ace of Wands for this position, as it represents pure wand energy: passion, fire, ambition, and creativity. Leo resonates with the Strength card in many traditions.
I think the next portion of the North Node Leo description is accurate, as for how I teach and what I do with Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter: "You love to entertain in a big way -- you're at your best when throwing a large and lavish party." --Astrolabe
The world's a stage! And with my North Node in Leo, I exhibit the performing arts. This image features the Two of Wands from the Tarot Mucha at Tattered Cover in Denver. Follow TabithaDial at Instagram for more images like these.
Exploring your birth chart in terms of Tarot can be rewarding, but if doing it all at once seems too daunting, try something like this:
- Find a card to match what your Mercury is in (you may use Astrolabe) and let it speak to the card that matches your sun/birth sign or rising sign. Mercury is the planet of communication -- How do these cards seem to communicate with each other? Reflect and journal, or record your spoken thoughts.
The Page of Cups represents my Mercury in Pisces and The Lovers is my Gemini Rising. Using the exercise above, I'm confident they communicate relatively well.
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