Activating Your Intuition with Tarot: Easy Ways to Trust Your Inner Voice

Tarot is more than just about checking out what the future is about to bring or memorizing all the cards in the deck. It’s actually a key that helps readers unlock their inner wisdom. The best part is that it doesn’t matter if you are a tarot beginner or someone who knows the sacred niche. Below, we offer a quick how-to guide on how to turn your intuition on and start trusting your inner voice.

Step 1 – Create a Calm Environment

Don’t rush with pulling cards! Make sure to set the right scene before providing your intuition for space to flourish:

• Get a candle and light it.
• Put on some music that helps you focus on the process.
• Breathe in, breathe out, and try to calm down. 

 Pro tip: Stillness is the key to getting your intuition working. Before you do the reading part, you have to ensure your energetic space is 100% clean. 

Step 2 – Ask Questions That Are Open-Ended

If you would like to get your intuition to speak (whether during an in-person or online tarot reading from professional services), you can do it only with the help of the right questions.

Ask:

• What is it that I have to get a better understanding of in this situation?
• What kind of energy is part of this opportunity?
• What part of myself do I have to heal at the moment?

 Pro tip: Never try to get answers for yes/no questions. Our intuition functions best when we provide it with space to explore. 

Step 3 – Let Your Feelings Help You Pick a Card

When you deal with cards, you shouldn’t cut the deck using your logic. Just place your hand over your deck and take into account any warmth and energy flow.

Pro tip: Your body’s signals are the first to pay attention to. That’s an essential part of the language of your intuition.

Step 4 – Pay Attention to the Very First Impression(s)

Chances are, the very first thing you feel like doing is checking the tarot guidebook. However, when you pull a card, your task is absolutely different:

• To say out loud what you see on a card.
• Pay attention to the emotions that you have after seeing the card’s image.
• To consider colors, symbols, characters, and other elements that stand out.

Pro tip: No textbook guide can provide you with more sufficient insight than your very first intuitive reaction does!  

Step 5 – Write Down Your First Impressions

When the reading’s done, don’t just end the process roughly. We strongly recommend getting a journal and writing down your impressions, feelings, or any other immediate reactions your body and mind have when you deal with the cards.

Just think the following:

• The very first idea this card game gave me was…
• This card makes me think of…
• I feel the spirits are telling me…

 Pro tip: Sooner than you know, you will learn to notice all the intuitive patterns while your intuitive language will be developing. 

Step 6 – Make Intuitive Tarot Spreads Your No. 1

While predicting the future using cards can be fun, guys, it’s better to try spreads that were designed to access your inner wisdom. For example, a simple three-card spread can do the job:

• What kind of message is my intuition trying to convey?
• Is there anything that blocks me from receiving this message?
• How can I trust my intuition more?

 Pro tip: Using simple three-card spreads helps spark self-discovery and intuitive awareness.

Step 7 – Don’t Follow the Rules

From time to time, make sure to do tarot readings without any particular spread or formal question. In other words, we recommend that you simply draw cards freely. Then, let your intuition talk to you and…listen.

 Pro tip: A great recommendation is to pull a card as you wake up and interpret it without using any helpful info like guidebooks. Sooner than you know, you’ll boost your confidence in tarot reading.  

Step 8 – Meditate and/or Visualize

When the tarot reading part is done, it’s time to do a quick and simple exercise. Here’s the plan:

• Close your eyes.
• Let your imagination do the job.
• Dive into the world of the card.
• Imagine you approach the figure that you see on the card.
• Ask them to give you the message that you’re supposed to receive.

 Pro tip: Using a simple technique of visualization, you can easily boost your connection between the energy of the card and your subconscious.

Step 9 – Repeat Your Rituals and Think of the Process

The reality is that intuition can be built only over time. Yes, it’s kind of similar to your workouts in the gym. In other words, the more you use your intuition muscles, the stronger you become.

Here’s what we recommend:

• Have regular card pulls (do it once a day or week) and make sure to reflect on each pull.
• Do not forget to track whether your intuitive hits were accurate or/and resonant.

 Pro tips: Regular use of the cards is part of a successful tarot reading séance and intuitive growth.

Step 10 – Don’t Try to Be Always Right or Perfect

The point is that the more pressure you put on your intuitive engines and try to be the best of the best, the harder it will be for you to hear what your inner voice is trying to tell you. Stop with that! Nothing in this world is perfect, so why should you try to be?

Do not ask if this or that message is right for you. Instead, approach the spirits with, “What exactly is meaningful here?”

 Pro tip: Always keep in mind that intuition is not about being 100% certain about something – it is about trust and resonance.

Step 11 – Use All of Your Five Senses in the Process

Not just your thoughts, but all five senses. If at this point, you don’t know where to start, how about this:

• Do you feel any sound, scent, or some sort of tactile sensation pop up as you pull and hold a tarot card from the deck?
• Ask yourself what sound or smell the card in your hand would have if it had one.
• Do you notice any tingling or goosebumps when touching a card? The trick is that these physical sensations are usually intuitively truthful. 

 Pro tip: One of the best ways to make your tarot readings richer is by getting your senses as your partners in the process.  

 The best part? You already have your intuition with you 24/7! Using cards is like looking into the mirror to see it more clearly. Just do it regularly, have an open mind, and a strong desire to explore far beyond what is written in books.