Daily Tarot Devotionals

Whether you are just learning tarot, are a professional reader, or somewhere in between, a daily tarot exercise can be insightful and rewarding. Daily tarot exercises help us learn tarot. Even more, daily tarot exercises facilitate a meaningful time of spiritual devotion and meditative introspection.

Here are three different tarot exercises to try on a daily basis. You can pick one and try it every day for a week. Or perhaps you have time to do all three every day. See how creating space in your life for introspection, focus and insight changes your life in just seven days. Over time, you will find the daily tarot devotionals that are best for you to do in an ongoing practice. You may even experiment with some that you create yourself.

Card of the Day (COTD)

A Card of the Day is first and foremost reflective, rather than predictive.

If you can find the time to pull a card every day in the morning, take that card as a focal point for the day. If you are a new student, study the card. Write about the card and how it makes you feel. Research the card and learn some basic classic meanings for it. Find a few other illustrations of the card to broaden your understanding of its energy.

Then, at the end of the day, think about the ways in which the energy of this card appeared in your day. This will help you understand in a very practical way how this card might speak in a reading.

If you do your COTD in the evening, use it to reflect on your day. How does this card fit in to things that happened throughout the day, or things you learned during the day?

If you are a more experienced reader you do not have to spend as much time on study and research unless you feel the need. Instead, simply make note of the way the card’s energy makes itself known throughout the day.

If you faithfully journal your Card of the Day, you will create a valuable personal tarot study book over time.

A Daily Tarot Affirmation and Manifestation

What do you want to tell yourself today? What do you want to bear in mind? What do you want to welcome into your life? Look through your deck and find a card by choosing it cognitively, rather than at random. Decide what you need or want, and find a card that to you, represents that energy. When you pull it from your deck, spend a few minutes with it. Breathe in the card’s energy. Visualize your life with this energy made manifest. Create an affirmation based on this card. Write your affirmation and read it to yourself when you have free moments throughout the day.

A Card of Gratitude

Pull a card at random to remind you of something for which to be grateful. The exercise of interpreting each card as a gratitude is very helpful in learning to interpret cards in context. The exercise of practicing gratitude for something specific each day is one that can foster growth and healing.

So often, people think of tarot simply as a tool of fortune telling. These daily exercises will certainly improve your skills at telling fortunes with tarot. Even better, these exercises will help you understand the deeper side of tarot. Better still, these daily exercises will help you stay focused, peaceful, and proactive in your day-to-day life.

One, Two, Three, Tarot Stories! Tarot Exercises for Groups and Individuals

Here are some great Minor Arcana exercises, appropriate for tarotists of all experience levels. I tried these with a group of fourteen, breaking them in to small discussion groups. It worked well!

I think these exercises will work equally well for the individual, as journaling prompts.

I would love to hear your experiences with these exercises!

Take the Ace, Two and Three from each suit, and arrange the twelve cards in a grid.

Answer the following questions.

Aces:

What do the four Aces have in common?

In what ways are they different?

What is the energy of “Ace”?

How do the four elements (suits) influence the Ace energy?

Twos:

What do the four Twos have in common?

In what ways are they different?

What is the energy of “Two”?

How do the four elements (suits) influence the Two energy?

Threes:

What do the four Threes have in common?

In what ways are they different?

What is the energy of “Three”?

How do the four elements (suits) influence the Three energy?

Stories:

Now look at the cards in numeric sequence.

What story do you see in the Ace-Two-Three progression of each suit?

Do any of those stories reflect stories in your own life?

What happens if you tell the stories starting with Three and ending with Ace?

Readings:

Shuffle the four Aces, and choose one at random. Let this card answer the question: What am I beginning?

Shuffle the four Twos, and choose one a random. Let this card answer the question: What am I choosing, or contemplating?

Shuffle the four Threes, and choose one a random. Let this card answer the question: What am I creating?

What story of your life is told when you put these three cards together?