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.

Why do I love Tarot?

Why do I love Tarot?

Because Tarot is about stories. It's about creating a life where you walk with wanderers, magicians, and kings. Where you see the big, powerful themes of your life, and the small but poignant scenes that make up who you are. Where you're able to review your life's story and see how you want it to be told.

Because it's about possibilities. Because I can take a look at seven cards laid out in a pattern and see myself reflected back at me - parts of me I'd never considered before, and options I'd never imagined. Because when we're bogged down by too many choices, or by a sense of being overwhelmed and lost, we're able to illuminate our path and see one direction where it might lead.

Because Tarot is art. It's taking 78 ideas, 78 moments from life, and seeing the myriad ways those images have evolved and changed from person to person, theme to theme, artist to artist. It's seeing the unique lens through which each deck views our lives, and then learning about yourself through which images speak to you.

Because the world needs magick. Because we're magick, and the sheer power and beauty of peering into the unknown and calling up what we find there is something we're never too old for. 

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Kim DeCina is a professional Tarot reader and life coach in the South Florida area. She's just released a six week e-course, Tarot Journeys: Of Mentors and Magic Wands, the first of four planned courses that teach the Major Arcana as guides for healing and personal development.