Many people, especially new tarot learners, ask: “Can I read my tarot cards every day?”. The answer is, you can do as many readings as you are comfortable with.
Tarot has gained immense popularity as a tool for self-discovery and personal growth in recent years. Learning tarot can be a lifelong pursuit, or something you pick up quickly.
Ultimately, you have to do you and feel comfortable with how you live your life and if you are, then carry on, superstar!
This article delves into how frequently you should engage with the Tarot for personal insight, offering guidance on finding a balance that supports your growth without leading to dependence or confusion.
The Benefits of Regular Tarot Practice
Using Tarot as an everyday guide for meditation, self-improvement, and growth is wonderful, and it works. You can easily build a routine around Tarot for self-help and motivation. Many people come to the tarot for aid with clearing their minds and making decisions. Anxiety is real, it’s something I struggle with.
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Lots of Tarot Professionals use the Tarot to help with their counseling and healing work, which is an amazing way to use the tarot. The self-knowledge I gain from reading the cards is priceless.
Simple Tarot Practices for Daily Guidance
One simple way to do so is to read one card a day. I recommend making 5 to 10 minutes times for yourself every evening to read just one card. Depending on your mood - intense or light - you could decide to pick a card from the Major Cards only or use all 78. Follow your intuition and be sure to take this opportunity to connect with and get to know your deck better.
If you have a particular topic on your mind, you may want to only use one court: Coins/Pentacles for money, Wands for work or social life, Cups for love, Swords for decisions and philosophical questionings.
Two-card readings are great for simple questions that can be answered in a general positive or negative way. For example: “Should I continue putting effort into this?” or “Can I expect anything good to come out of this relationship?”. They won’t give you all the intel but they’ll give you a general direction, which can already ease your mind and help you see clearer.
Potential Pitfalls of Over-Reading
Yes, I have bills to pay and a little one to take care of, but that doesn’t make up for the fact that you can have too much of a good thing. Reading Tarot for yourself can be really tricky. Some readers strongly feel against this practice, others read for themselves daily. I plead guilty too, I regularly read for myself.
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However, if you’re unable to make a small choice in your life without consulting the cards, you may have a problem. What you use the Tarot for is your prerogative. No tea, no shade, no pink lemonade, if it works.
Here comes the more difficult part. Making predictions for yourself is probably a bad idea. Some people manage to do it and I do it for myself in some cases too. But I still often feel the urge to book a session with someone who is not involved when it comes to foreseeing an outcome.
Being too involved and having certain expectations when reading Tarot is always a bad thing. Because your energy is all that matters and it will influence the cards you draw as much as the way you will perceive them.
The good news is this can be easily remedied! If you find yourself circling this issue, I want you to feel within your body the next time you make a decision.
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No matter what a skilled Tarot reader says or what cards you may get in a reading; if you pull the plug on any relationship because of one card coming up one time; that’s on you, not on the Tarot. I’ve also seen this cause tension in relationships because one partner has to run to the cards for confirmation at every turn. This is not helpful in building a good solid team, and I feel it puts a third person or energy into the relationship; you, your partner, and the cards.
Work with your significant other more than you work with the cards when making choices in your relationship. This is really the same as talking to your friends, family, hairdresser, post person, and goldfish about the issues you’re having in your relationship.
The Tarot can be a wonderful tool to help you navigate rocky times in your relationships. Simply asking the cards “why is my partner being such an asshole today?” and flipping cards, until you get the answer you want, is not helpful. Why not ask your partner “what’s going on?”.
There are excellent exercises that you can do together with the Tarot if you’re both struggling to find the right words to use. It does mean that your partner has to be open to using the cards but it can be really insightful. If you’re all interested I can make a post on something like this.
Financial and Emotional Well-being
I will never shame anyone who buys Tarot decks, oracle decks, crystal, and anything that they want unless it’s elephant tusks and harmful things. If you have the financial means and it’s bringing you what you need in life then awesome sauce; you do you. What I’m talking about is when you buy a Tarot reading over putting food in your fridge or getting a new deck instead of paying the bills. This is a dangerous addictive behavior.
People rack up serious debt talking to Tarot phone lines and buying reading after reading. While Tarot readers are not responsible for their clients if someone is coming back over and over at very frequent intervals, it may be time to cut them off for a bit. I usually give these people some homework to do in self-reflection and daily self-care rituals and hope that helps them. A remedy for this can be getting some help around money management.
Establishing a Healthy Reading Cycle
Every reader will have a different answer to how frequently or infrequently you should get a reading. This can vary from reader to reader, and from client to client. My personal rule of thumb is that at least a month should pass between readings. This is for even the most eager of clients, because I truly want the cards to change for them upon their next reading, showing the growth and progress they have made since their initial reading.
I like to keep a strong bond with my intuition, so I do readings for myself on a weekly basis. This also allows me some time to reflect on the previous readings and see what changes, if any, have taken place. Some people prefer to do readings every day, while others do readings only once a month.
From my experience though, you’ll get best results when reading for yourself when asking very short term questions - often for the same day or tops, the same week. Or long term (a year or more). Why? Because everything in between is the hardest part to foresee. It is the part that fluctuates when it comes to the details and timing.
When to Seek a Professional Reading
As a rule of thumb, I get a professional Tarot reading about every 6-12 months for a general check-in. If something drastic changes or a big life decision happens then this is also a great time to get a reading. I’m not going to lie, I have people that I know I can message and book a reading with ASAP if I needed one. However, they’re not on speed dial and I don’t message or call them at ridiculous times of the night and day for immediate assistance.
Ultimately, we all want the best possible experience with the cards for you, and we all want the biggest bang for your buck as well.
Practical Tips for Effective Self-Readings
So we’ve covered the fact that reading Tarot for yourself is difficult. And often confusing. Yet if you’ve got your mind set on a session anyway, you will want to put all chances on your side to do it right.
The most obvious solution to try and make your reading a little easier is to rely on strict and structured layouts. The great thing about Tarot - vs other fortune telling and guidance tools - is that you can very much structure your reading and stick to the plan. Find a layout that works well with the topic you’re looking into. Three to five card spreads are ideal as they are dense enough to carry a lot of information without being overwhelming.
You can easily find layouts online or in your favorite book but making your own and preparing your reading on a sheet of paper is also a solid option.
I enjoy doing simple tarot spreads because they are quick and easy. As a mother of two, I do not always have the time nor the energy to read tarot for myself every day. I also choose to do my own tarot readings when big life changes are coming, such as a career change or a move to a new city.
Respecting the Cards and Your Energy
You should also consider giving your tarot decks a little break as asking the same type of question over and over may drain them too. There is really no limit on the number of tarot readings you can do for others. It mainly depends on your energy levels, as well as the energy of the person you are reading for. Some types of readings can be emotionally draining, so it might be beneficial to space that out.
Doing tarot readings whilst being overly tired can lead to inaccurate readings. Yes, it is possible to experience burnout. This happens when you do too many readings in a short period and you start to feel drained both mentally and emotionally. If you start to feel this way, take a break from doing readings for others until you feel recharged. Remember that tarot is all about your intuition, and for it to work, you must be in tune with yourself.
Some of these points may hit home for a few people, and when this happens, it’s an opportunity for self-reflection.
Ultimately, the power lays within them. Find a reader that syncs up with your reading cycle, and be respectful when your reader tells you a reading may be “too soon.”
So whether you need a quick yes or no or general guidance, turn to your deck carefully. Tarot is a mighty ally in your every day life. But reading for yourself can be both a good and bad idea.
In conclusion, the number of tarot readings you can do ultimately depends solely on you. As long as you are comfortable with what you are doing, there is no harm in doing readings more often.
Remember that tarot is all about your intuition, and for it to work, you must be in tune with yourself.