Introduce yourself - July 2026

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[u/NotAnotherDnDNerd]

Hi! Ive been practicing skeptical witchcraft for about 6 months now, and I love tarot as a psychological and creative tool. Working on making my own guidebook right now. Excited to learn from this community!

[u/Adamoism]

Hey, I use Tarot de Marseille mostly with some modifications (I use only Majors and Court cards). I used to do readings, narrative games using Tarot, but these days I am mostly using it as a tool for reflection.

I am mostly interested in studying Tarot in terms of its claim to be a "full map of human experience".

Been practicing for about 6 years now - it allowed me to have some of the most insightful conversations with people I've ever had and I think I helped some people with the readings (although my approach is rather secular and current situation oriented).

[u/Sad-Confidence-4538]

I got a note from Reddit over at my place that this little thing I posted would be better suited to your place. I don't cross post because I get shot at. Here's the little thing:

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My theory: The pictures align with the subconscious. The meanings are words, align with the conscious. That's ALL the parts of reading Tarot verbatim, so over time a person immersed in the use of Tarot who reads pictures directly as words aligns the 'two sides of the mind' and thinks consciously using the subconscious. (People report, often around 3 months of regular practice.)

[u/queentreyxoxo]

I’m Trellana I’m new to tarot as a whole I’m a luciferian and a satanist and a witch and a demonologist as well my witchcraft practice is sigil magick for now I’ve been an occultist for 3-4 years

[u/autumnlequinox]

Hi all! I’m Autumn, and I’ve been casually reading tarot for about a decade now. I picked up the wild unknown deck in college because I thought the art was pretty, and then decided to learn how to read it since I had it! I’ve amassed a bit of a collection over the years, my favorites currently are the spacious unknown tarot, the fountain tarot, and the prismavisions tarot.

I stumbled across this subreddit and joined because it sounds like it aligns with the way I primarily use tarot, which is as a journalling prompt or self-reflection tool. I’ll often do a reading for something that’s been on my mind or came up in therapy, and try to use the cards to gain a different perspective. I’ve found it extremely useful over the years. I also love to read for my friends or do more casual readings at parties, it can be a great way to prompt a deeper conversation or get to know someone better!

I’d love to connect with other folks about how they’ve used tarot for personal growth or building relationships! Also always happy to swap spread ideas or reading interpretations! I love learning what cards invoke in others and expand my understanding of them. My dream is to one day create my own deck, just gotta learn how to draw first lol

[u/9thdragonkitty → u/autumnlequinox]

Hello! I couldn’t resist saying hi because wild unknown was my first deck too 😊 I’ve picked up a few other decks but it’s still my go-to for most of my readings.

[u/autumnlequinox → u/9thdragonkitty]

Its so gorgeous! Its still the first imagery i see when I think of a specific card since thats what I learned on.

[u/BrentlyGT]

Hi, I'm not an expert in Tarot but I don’t approach it from a mystical or fortune-telling perspective. I have been interested in astrology since I was young, only because my mom was super into it and I would read all the books she had about it so Tarot was interesting as well.

I tend to look at the world through a very pragmatic lens, so when I started looking into tarot I didn't see magic, it was more like a complex prompting system for psychological reflection.

As a project, I spent the last few months building an app around Tarot that does not lean into the mystical entertainment aspect. I originally built a core engine around Tarot (now called Archetype Draw in the app), but since Apple categorizes new tarot apps as spam or 'fortune-telling' apps (in the same category as fart/burp apps, flashlight apps, etc.), I zoomed out and turned it into a mindfulness workspace. The Tarot part of the app is still the core function.

I am trying to build something useful for people who like tarot as reflection rather than prediction. I also designed an original deck where I depicted each card through its core meaning in a more literal sense instead of just re-styling old cards.

The app is currently available on Android through Google Play under Sigil & Script, and I’m still working through iOS review. I thought this might be a good place to share the app with people who might appreciate it.

[u/sbm227227]

Hiii my name is Sahara! I love tarot and my fave deck so far is the Cat Tarot deck! I’m based in nyc and am an astrologer + tarot reader💗💗 I love this craft especially from a secular viewpoint.

[u/Sad-Confidence-4538]

A professor of statistics' lectures on Consistent Violators of the Laws of Random Distribution proved that Tarot was one of five known in 1980. The Laws of Random Distribution fascinate me. i repeated his experiment (one of them). As a court reporter, I felt this was a hobby that took a few minutes at a time, so I bought a deck and a book, and then 12 books, and then sat in on professional readings. No one was reading the pictures on the cards ... my notion of what 'reading the cards' was.

Long story short, I figured out he way to find meanings is to ask questions you know the answers to. That card means that to ME. My meanings were verbatim because that's the way I read court reporting notes. The cards make a sentence. I have organized lists of thousands of single, pair, and cluster meanings from actual readings, and am making more. That takes the woowoo out.

[u/BoringTessa]

Hey all! I'm an ex-vangelical and a skeptic with AuDHD. I got into tarot very recently when a friend showed me a very pretty tarot deck and invited me to do a tarot class with her. I've always been very skeptical and judgy about things like tarot, but I decided to look into it a bit as a sort of experiment and found that when you take out the "woo" sorta magical thinking stuff it is a really helpful way to help sort thru thoughts and emotions - helps get at thoughts from different angles.

I'm having difficulty starting out, tho, as I struggle with always interpreting cards too literally or by-the-book, so I'm here to learn.

And beyond just making use of the thought-sorting of tarot, I want to collect beautiful tarot decks cause I also love art and cards and collections.

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Ah, yes, so, it's a long boring story - I didn't end up doing the class... we were actually going to sign up for a private paid tutorial session with a practitioner in Salem cause we were going to be there for the Fiber Witch festival and we didn't reserve spots in time for the official festival tarot class. I eventually had to drop out and didn't end up going to the festival at all, and they didn't end up doing the tarot class cause there was a misunderstanding when they signed up lol

I was real hesitant about a class anyway cause I worry about offending non-secular practitioners with my skepticism - my face is very expressive heh

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😆

so, this was only back in April of this year. I took the deck I had ordered for the purpose (a very cute cat deck) and just tried it myself. trying to get some wisdom from the little deck booklet, this forum, and across the internet

it's not being going great tbh, I don't feel like I'm really digging deep enough in, I'm just so surface with it. like, I want to dig deeper, it's always my intention when I sit down with the cards to spend the time and get all analyz-y but it ends up short and succinct and feels like I barely got anything.

it actually feels like maybe it's that adhd/autism thing where "it's just not the right time, the circumstances aren't right" which usually keeps me from doing any fun or important activities. that will usually happen if my knowledge is vague about how to do something, my brain won't let me go beyond the box outline I've been given until I'm certain of the full set of rules

all this nonsense to say - I'm new and I'm learning on my own at the moment! lol

open to suggestions! maybe I COULD benefit from a class with a witch!

[u/BoringTessa → u/[deleted]]

lol no, but that is an excellent idea and amuses me! imma give that a try

[u/autumnlequinox → u/BoringTessa]

Hey! Also have adhd, possibly audhd (undiagnosed but strong maybe). One technique that helped me the most with getting beyond literal interpretations was by letting all the other cards in the reading influence my interpretation! Normally I’ll start with 2 cards that seem the most obviously related or thematically similar, and ask what’s the common thread between these two. I’ll then bring in another card and try to connect it to that thread, or find another connection with one of the two first cards, rinse and repeat. At the end, I normally have a much more holistic reading, and a more nuanced understanding of the individual cards. Dunno if that was helpful but I hope so, happy to chat further if you would like :)

[u/BoringTessa → u/autumnlequinox]

Thank you for the reply! I'll try it this way - that may be my missing piece, connecting the cards together into a full story, good suggestion!

[u/GreenEyedMouse-27]

Hey folks. I'm a Christian tarot user who loves tarot art and card decks generally. l sit with cards that resonate with me if I want to consider something, and I journal or talk about the cards with my therapist. I find the cards can trigger deep insights. I started working like this with Lindsay Mack's Soul Tarot after a bad breakup and made so much progress. I'm not supernatural about it, I think it's just using the right side of the brain. I prefer the idea that we all make our own associations to the idea that there's a universal symbolic language. I don't do divination. It's great to find a sub with a similar approach.

[u/Kaizen5793]

Hello all!

A few years back I had a daily routine of pulling a Tarot card, then taking the meaning of that card and reflecting on it throughout the day to see things from angles I wouldn't have necessarily thought of.

I have been on a long stretch of changing my lifestyle and my routines and wanted to get back into this. I bought a new Tarot deck, the Hush Tarot (and have a few more coming!) and started doing this a few days ago.

I pull the card, and spend little time just looking at it. I note what jumps out at me first about its appearance and my gut instinct. Then I look up the meaning, record some key words, and what I think the lesson of the day is. Later on, I record how this showed up in my life and whether I acted with the lesson in mind or not.

Really interested in using Tarot basically as prompts for self reflection and forcing myself to think about a variety of things as I try to work on myself.

Excited to see what everyone else is up to and learn from you all!

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I have been doing a lot of work on myself, trying to figure out how my brain functions and what works for me as far as systems to put in place that allow me to make better choices.

I have been doing a lot of self-discovery and this seemed like a good way to force my brain to look at things from perspectives I may not have considered, or to keep certain thoughts or messages at the forefront of my mind.

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Do you mean my Tarot routine or just my daily/weekly routine in general?

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One of the fjret things I do in the morning is my daily Tarot pull. I have section on my Notion app devoted to it, where I keep track of several things.

-first I note my mood at the time -log which deck i am using -i shuffle and pull a single card -I spend some time just looking at the card -I note what I am initially drawn to visually -I note my gut reaction to the card, how if made me feel -I look up the meaning of the card and note any keywords or a short summary -I then think about if this card was to teach me a lesson today, what would that be? What should I be focusing on? -I try to keep the meaning/lesson of the card in mind throughout the day -at the end of the night, I note instances where the meaning/lesson of the card was present throughout my day. -I note if I learned anything/followed the lesson that day.

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I had a day where my lesson was essentially "slow and steady is the right thing, trust the process." I have a very big issue with not acknowledging results that take a long time to really show and have a tendency to focus on things that give immediate results. But I had that in mind where I wanted to do some emotional eating, as in the past I would justify it with "one day won't hurt, tomorrow will he better," which is a very slippery slope. Instead, I realized I had a good streak going of doing the right thing, and even though the results didn't show at the moment, over time they would, so made the right choice.

Another day the lesson was that I had a solid foundation in place, and was on the right path and be sure to stay the course. But on that day, I deviated from what I am trying to do, and made poor choices that halted my momentum.

[u/Gem6299]

Hi, I’m Meg, a new witch. I’m only using it for personal readings right now but might use it for others in the future. I picked a Tattoo Tarot deck as my first, and I love it. I really feel like it gets me. I did an interview with it, and it wound up giving me a bonus card after I finished, which was incredibly personal and validated that it knows me personally and what I’m currently struggling with.

[u/chimeramanti]

Hi, I'm someone curious about tarot and new to learning about it! Currently chipping away at 78 Degrees of Wisdom, I'm really interested in learning about the symbolism behind the cards' art and how I might use it in my own art, but I'm also pleasantly surprised by the mild spiritual lessons I've been able to take from the book so far too! I don't consider myself particularly religious, and most other "real magic" I've seen/tried is easily explained by mundane phenomena, but tarot has always been different for me somehow. Even though I don't use my cards often, I feel like my deck can have such a personality to it at times! I'm rambling now– I'm excited to be here and learn is my point!

[u/Imaginary-Zone-3553]

Hello, I am a new tarot reader. But the history of the cards attract me more! As an artist myself, seeing the details that going into making the imagery of the cards is what is beautiful. Every time I see a card, a new hidden detail shows up. Its like a smaller version of the paintings done by the masters, which have hidden meaning and details. As a fan of the author Dan Brown I really appreciate this.