🌟Tarot: the anti-Algorithm

The real value of the daily draw in Tarot isn’t to predict your day -
It’s creating one small moment where the world stops telling you what to pay attention to.

Imagine your attention is like a stream. All day, notifications, headlines, texts, photos, videos…

Everybody asking for the click.

But at some point during your morning, you pull out your humble Tarot deck and draw a card or two.

It’s not just the act of pulling the card or cards - that would be an analog version of the attention stream.

In this version of the daily draw, you pull a card or two and ask: “What am I being called to notice today?”

This simple act, this mini-meditation, is just long enough for you to tune into yourself for that brief moment.

What catches your attention?

Is it the waiter’s stark, white gloves?
The red haired woman sitting opposite another red haired woman?
The daffodil?

What about the crack in the window in the upper and lower left?

Write down what you notice in your journal.

👀Now your task is look for what you noticed in the card showing up in your day.

Maybe your appointment is in suite 14.

Maybe it’s a flaming red head on the street.

Maybe you try to mimic the waiter with the stark, white gloves and are very polite and formal with everyone you meet.

Maybe you catch the feeling of the card as you witness a mother handing her child a sandwich.

I call this the Tarot scavenger hunt.

Here’s the most important part.

At the END of the day, (or the next day) go back and review your draw and what you noticed throughout the day.

👉Did you stay engaged with your scavenger hunt, or did you get distracted?

It’s okay if you got distracted.

In a way, the daily draw is like a meditation practice. The goal is to continually return to self again and again through the cards.

Is that not valuable in the daily war for your attention?

I encourage you to stay with the practice and see what it reveals.

One last thought before I go.

I’ve been reading Time Loops by Eric Wargo. In it, he explores the possibility that information can move backward in time, creating loops between our future and past experience.

Without getting too far into the weeds, one idea is that your future self may be influencing your past self.

And since my version of the daily draw involves drawing a card and then revisiting at the end of the day, there is an opportunity to create a time loop of your own.

Try this:

• Pull a card in the morning and record your impressions as previously described
• At the end of the day, record your reflections for the day and any ways you noticed or embodied the card during the day.
• Then spend 60 seconds or so focusing on the most emotionally or symbolically significant event of the day, with the intention of sending that impression back to your morning self. (Weird, yes. But try it.)
• Now the morning prompt becomes what is future me trying to get past me to notice?

I’d love to hear what happens when you bust out of familiar reality tunnels with this version of the daily draw!

If this sounds like fun, join the FREE Circle group: THE TAROT UNDERGROUND.

We’re always experimenting and playing with the cards, and we’ve been waiting for YOU to join us.

-Cassandra the Card Reader
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