Below we will provide instructions on how to perform an easy yet powerful tarot card meditation technique. At first glance, meditation and tarot are two disciplines very far from each other. However, this does not have to be true. Our meditation can benefit from the use of tarot cards, as they are strong and powerful visualization objects. On the other hand, tarot card practitioners can use meditation as a tool to discover new, previously unknown relationships between the cards and their symbols.

Here’s a step-by-step guide on a relatively simple yet efficient tarot meditation method. The goal we are trying to achieve is to project our consciousness onto one selected Tarot card at a time.

1. The duration of your tarot meditation is up to you, but it should not exceed 10 minutes in the initial phase.
2. You must use only the Tarot Deck of the Major Arcana. More precisely, it must start with The Fool, card number 0 and go successively through all the Major Arcana until The World, card nr. 21. After a month, if you feel like doing it, you can extend the meditation time to a maximum of 30 minutes.
3. It is not unimportant which tarot deck you use in this type of meditation. Take a look at our suggestions for buying tarot decks online.
4. Place your card in front of your eyes. Adjust the distance, so that you can observe all the details without any effort.
5. Look at the tarot card for a couple of seconds. Then close your eyes and try to mentally reproduce what you just observed. Reopen your eyes and observe the differences between your mental image and the card itself.
6. Repeat step 4 several times, gradually increasing the observation period and likewise the period in which you view the card with your inner eye. Remember that your complete meditation should not exceed 10 minutes.

While doing this exercise, it is very important that you learn to be a neutral observer. Without implications, without projections, without tensions of any kind. Just be there and look at the image on the selected Tarot card with ease and in total relaxation.

After a while, you will see how (provided you have managed to be sufficiently relaxed) it takes practically no effort on your part to see the exact copy of the Tarot card you just looked at projected on your inner screen. When you have mastered this step, you will have completed the first phase of this tarot meditation.

After this beginner level, you are ready to take another step. Now, we will try to make the inner picture more vivid and vivid. We will try to transform it from a 2D image to a real live 3D object. If done correctly, the frame of your selected tarot card will become a window (or portal) to another world. This world will be filled with light, color, objects and figures. In meditation, you should do the same: stand there and observe this vivid image in peace and calm.

However, another more advanced stage would be to go through that portal and enter (project into) that created live image. It can be an astral or mental projection, but it doesn’t have to be. You will be there and you will be observing the environment. You are passive, but you are aware and observant.

What will happen next depends on the individual characteristics of the person performing this form of tarot meditation. Perhaps, you will notice some new relationships between a given pair of symbols, or a new activity between the Tarot Card figures. Use all your senses to discover the hidden meaning of the symbols. When this inner image becomes more real than the outer image represented on the card, you have established the most important prerequisites for symbolic communication.

In the end, it is important to finish your meditation correctly. You need to reverse the steps as follows.

1. Extract your inner image.

2. Reduce it from a 3D image to a 2D one.

3. When this image has become similar to the one shown on the card, focus on recording your inner meditative experiences. The best way is to write them down or verbalize them in some way. By doing this last step after each meditation session, you will bridge between your normal surface awareness and the deeper levels of your psychic. Therefore, the benefits of this meditation exercise with tarot cards will be expressed through your ability to access and understand their subconscious content more easily. And, the fact is, there is hardly any personal growth and self-realization without getting to know and deal with the deepest levels of your own being.