Working with Difficult Cards

Working with Difficult Cards

Most of us have cards in our tarot deck we’re less than pleased to see when they turn up. Let’s do some work with them! Maybe they’ll become less difficult along the way — or maybe we’ll learn to appreciate their difficulty.

Go through your tarot deck and create a pile of cards you consider difficult to interpret, or you just don’t like them.

Look through this pile for common themes. What exactly are you finding difficult or challenging? Jot a few notes.

Choose a situation in your life that is difficult or challenging.

Turn up a card randomly from your pile of difficult cards. Follow these steps:

Choose a different situation which is difficult, challenging, or unknown. Follow these steps:

Keep playing around with your difficult cards, in these ways and others that occur to you. Next time one of them shows up unexpectedly — greet it! And try to discover if this card can be a gateway to a more complex understanding within your reading.