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The card for the day. This card represents a daily guide. It may point out an opportunity, a task, or simply some aspect that needs attention. You can see it as your daily guardian angel or companion. The card for the week. This card highlights the topic of the week. It is as if you take a magnifying glass to concentrate on, for instance, a particular station of the tarot or a certain type of symbolism or theme during the space of a week. The card for the month. This provides an outline of the situation, task, and next steps to take for a given month. You turn your attention to a single tarot card and study it with special care and awareness. And you develop with it! The year card. This card represents the main theme running through your whole year. You can draw it on your birthday, at the new year or on any other defined occasion. Usually, the year card takes on a range of different aspects and provides different impulses as the year progresses. This is what
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about the question(s) which you wish to address with the help of tarot. Take your time, and make sure that you are sitting or standing comfortably, but alert. Try to breathe freely. Now just listen—not outwardly, but inside yourself.
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you will find the central question forming within you. Take it up, refine it and express it to yourself as clearly as you can!
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when you pick a card for a day, a month or any other period of time, you can dispense with the specific question and simply ask: “What does the tarot want to say to me today / for the coming month / etc.?”
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shuffle all 78 cards together.
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sure the images remain face downward so that you cannot see them.
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draw the card (or cards for spreads) in the way that is customary for you and try to do this in a state of relaxed concentration.
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the card face down in front of you, or multiple cards in the order and pattern of the given spread.
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turn the single card over or the cards of a spread one by one.
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The card or the spread provide the tarot’s answer to your question.
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