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Let’s pull some cards

To be honest, I was quite sceptical about Tarot and Oracle Cards – until I started pulling three Tarot cards every morning and every evening and wrote them down for a while.

I don’t really know how to explain it, but I had no idea how a card pulled from a stack of cards could somehow be meaningful and not just random. This was before I knew that everything is meaningful and created by us, and I guess in a way the cards also helped me to actually see that.

Yet, even when I wasn’t sure if the cards were actually telling me the truth, I always felt drawn to them. And as I was living my life in the countryside, with many winter evenings to fill, I started to learn a bit more about Tarot.

In that process, someone somewhere suggested to just pull three cards twice a day, to get a better feeling and to understand how the cards work for yourself.

And so I did. 

The first card I pulled each morning and each evening was for the (state of the) Mind, the second one for the (state of the) Body, and the third one for the (state of the) Soul. And I wrote each card down. It was so interesting.

Actually, I documented this in two ways. I wrote down the three cards and how I related to them in that moment, a bit like a diary, so that over time I could see that on days that I thought about the same things, the same cards appeared as well.

But I also wrote all the cards that are in the deck down on one page and then checked them off whenever I pulled them. This was a great visual support as you could see with one look, how I never pulled some cards, but how I pulled others all the time.

I think I pulled the tower almost every day (turbulent time with lots of inner change), and I almost had to start a new page just for this one card. But it didn’t come to that.

After a while, when I had seen how incredibly precise and accurate the cards were and when there was no doubt in my mind how well they worked, I switched to Oracle cards, Kyle Gray‘s Angels and Ancestors Oracle Cards Deck to be precise, and it so nicely and gently guided me through an incredibly tumultuous time of my life.

Why do the cards work so well?

We might not know what’s on the other side of each card, but our highest self knows.

So, if you ask a question, or think: body, or mind, or soul, your highest self knows what’s right or relevant for you to know, and the corresponding card, and it directly guides your hand, bypassing the mind and your consciousness and ego manipulation – it’s why muscle testing works so well as well, or pendulums.

And your highest self doesn’t only know what’s on the other side of your cards, it knows what book you have available, and what all the descriptions are in the book, and it can transcend time and space and knows how you shuffle, as this direct body connection with your highest self is so strong and bypassing the mind, your hand pulls the right card for you in that moment guided by that all knowing perspective that can basically see all cards and their meaning and your life past, present and future and has only your best interest in mind.

Quite magical, isn’t it?

And as we are all connected in spirit, it goes the same way, when someone pulls a card for someone else.

So when I pull a card for a friend or a client, I ask (in my mind): “What does this person need to know?” And then my hand will lead me to the right answer for that person accordingly.

And as our highest self only has our best interest in mind, there are also no bad cards.

This is a picture from today, it’s so often the case that the cards all align, even if I pull them at different times of the day.

In Tarot, there are cards like the devil, or death, or also the tower, maybe, that people find scary.

But I think they lose all kind of intimidating power, when we recognize one thing: They are here to help us and guide us.

The cards always show us where we are at right now energetically and what direction we are heading if we don’t change. So, if we don’t like what the cards tell us about where we are heading, then we can change something.

Does that make sense?

The cards are incredibly good helpers, as if we hadn’t pulled them we wouldn’t even know that we were heading somewhere where we don’t want to be, and couldn’t do something about it before it happens.

This way, they can help us to navigate the world safely.

And these cards also aren’t bad in the first place, as death, in the cards, just like death in real life, just means that something is changing. When we die, we say goodbye to this life, but we just move on to a different space, and there’s nothing bad or scary about it.

When we pull death as a card, or the hanged man, it means that we have to let go of an aspect or a version of ourselves, to open up to new possibilities.

And again we have a choice – to focus on the loss of what was and what we were used to, or on the new opportunities and higher awareness that may come with that change.

Start pulling your daily cards

So for this practice, to pull your daily cards, I would like to invite you to get an Oracle Card Deck or Tarot Card Deck of your choice and to just start practising.

Maybe you want to pull one card a day or three, like me, it doesn’t really matter-

It’s good to just start with something and don’t think too much about it, as it’s really the practice that brings the clarity here – but whatever you choose, make sure to document it for a while so you can see how it goes and have evidence.

It’s so fascinating to see that the same cards come up again and again, until you’ve changed so much that different cards begin to appear, while others disappear.

I switched from the three Tarot cards twice a day to one or two daily Oracle Cards and an occasional Tarot card when there are extra questions because this corresponded better with my essence.

I’m already so much into deep thinking and self exploration, that reading the lengthy descriptions for the Tarot cards and all the depth that comes with it, took me a lot of time and time I eventually rather wanted to spend on things I found more beneficial for me, that added more of what I didn’t already have and did all day.

And the oracle card descriptions are usually sweet and short, gave me an idea about where I was energetically, and made me feel loved and supported, so it added more lightness to my life and not more heaviness.

But again, there’s no right or wrong, just a way for you to explore what works best for you and how.

And I’d love to hear from you about how it’s going!