Just add this to make your Tarot readings SING🎶

Somewhere along the line, people got the idea that learning Tarot has to feel like studying for the Bar Exam.

Meanwhile the cards are over here trying to communicate through:
✨ weird associations
✨ symbolism
✨ intuition
✨ stories
✨ jokes
✨ emotional resonance
✨ dream characters

I want to hereby give you permission to stop studying and start PLAYING with the cards.

Tarot started out as a game, after all.

And there’s actually a reason for this.

When you treat Tarot like sacred stone tablets handed down from a mountain somewhere…

you get tight.

You start trying to be correct instead of perceptive.

The cards stop being alive and start feeling like multiple choice questions.

But when you play with the cards?

Something shifts.

Your brain loosens up.
Your intuition starts making connections.
The symbols start moving again instead of sitting there like laminated commandments.

You stop asking:
“What is the correct meaning?”

And start asking:
“What does this feel like?”
“What is this reminding me of?”
“Where is this trying to go?”

That’s when readings get interesting.

That’s when Tarot becomes a conversation instead of a test.

So this week:
we play. 😈

The key here is that traditional meanings are absolutely useful.

Whether you learned them from Mary K. Greer, Biddy Tarot, a book, a teacher, or years of experience…

that’s still only step one.

Step two is interaction.

Or to borrow a rule from improv:

Yes, and…

That’s where Tarot starts talking back or making a snarky comment under it’s breath.

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Sure.
The King of Pentacles is an established businessman.

YES, AND:
he kinda looks like a rapper who made it out the neighborhood and now owns the label.

Suddenly the card has texture.
History.
Personality.
A lived-in feeling.

That’s how you discover which direction a card wants to go in a particular reading.

Let’s try another one.

The 4 of Pentacles is about holding tightly to resources.

YES, AND:
this looks like someone trying to keep a small business alive using everything they’ve got.

In a reading, I would actually say, “Do you own a small business?”

Now the card starts feeling human instead of theoretical.

And yes, at first this can feel a little awkward.

And you may worry that you sound like you don’t know what you’re talking about.

But here’s the thing:

When you’re talking with someone in a reading, they’re not grading your performance word by word.

And when you hit the insight…
you’ll know.

Just like a comedian knows when the joke lands.

The whole conversation suddenly clicks into place.

That’s the moment that matters.

How to play with your Tarot deck

Write Tarot memes
​I’m sure you’ve seen these from time to time. A tarot card with the people saying funny things in cartoon bubbles.

Write ridiculous definitions
​Make up something crazy around a card you pull at random. Be outrageous! You’re not trying to be correct or insightful here, you are purposely being off the fucking wall!

Take a picture of yourself acting out a Tarot card and post it somewhere
​Pick any Tarot card you want and act it out. AND THEN post it. That’s the fun part.

Make up a playing card game using Tarot
​If you’re someone who plays card games, make up a game using Tarot cards. If you do, be sure to come back and share it with us! Bonus points if it’s a drinking game.-

Predict the plot
​Pull cards during a movie or TV show and predict what happens next.

It’s all fun and games this week in the Tarot Underground!

If you want a place to actually play with Tarot instead of quietly stressing yourself out over meanings…

Come join us!🔮It's Free!

This week we’re leaning fully into experimentation, weird connections, symbolic chaos, accidental brilliance, and learning Tarot by interacting with it instead of memorizing it.

And this Saturday at NOON Central, we’re having the next LIVE Tarot Cocktail Party. 🍸

No performance pressure.
No gatekeeping.
No Tarot Police.

Just some folks throwing cards and connecting.

See you in the Underground. 👀

-Cassandra the Card Reader
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