Learning tarot can be hard enough, right? There's so many
card meanings to learn. Plus, you have to figure out how to
read them together and in a tar t spread, and there's so many ou
side pressures on how to do it the right way, right? Wrong. Th
re's no right way or wrong wa to read tarot cards. There's on
y your way and the ways that wo k for you. But I do have to te
l you that I have seen some of my students, especially be
inners, make some common mi takes over and over. And I'm no
going to tell you that this is the wrong way to read tarot. I'
just saying that if you make th se mistakes, it's might be mo
e difficult to learn how to re d the cards. I want to save yo
from that and make it as ea y as possible so I put this vi
eo together for you.
Hi, I'm Angie Green from The Simple Tarot which is all about
helping you learn how to read the tarot cards in a way that's
simple, fun and easy so that you can then use the tarot as a tool
for creativity for self care for personal
development or whatever fun times you want to have. I have
been teaching tarot for over fiv years online and I've seen ne
students make these sam mistakes like over and over an
over. And it really holds the back. So not just from makin
progress with tarot, although t certainly does. But also it ki
d of holds them back from livi g their best life. And I know th
t sounds kind of dramatic, righ
It probably is. But tarot i always a really good mirror. I
you're making one of the simpl mistakes in this video that
showed you, when you're learnin tarot, it's likely that you'r
also making that same mistake i the bigger aspect of your life
And that pattern might b holding you back
So one of the most common mistakes is that you feel as a
beginner pressured to do it the right way. Someone else's right
way. Really, you're just you're searching for answers outside of
yourself. Honestly, the very best way to learn tarot is to
make it easy on yourself by making
At fun, you need to find your way. My way is just one way and
I, you know, I teach a lot of people so I know what tends to
work for most people. But that's not a guarantee that it's going
to work for you. You need to find your way. So mistake number
one is feeling pressure to do it someone else's way or feeling
pressure to do it the right way. Don't just do it your way and
try to make it as much fun as possible for you.
The second thing I see as a really common mistake really
common is that people especially tarot beginners are overwhelme
when they see 78 cards an they're trying to memorize them
Those card meanings don't need to be memorized. Honestly, they
don't.
One of the great ways to do this is to cheat by getting a cheat
sheet or using The Simple Tarot Deck that's got the card
meanings printed right on the cards. You can also get just
sort of like a throwaway deck and a sharpie marker and write
your own meetings on the cards like
doesn't need to be so precious, but don't bother memorizing
anything. And the reason why. So there's a difference between
long term and short term memory memorizing a card puts it into
your short term memory, but it does not help you put it into
your long term memory. Very, very few people I am like
talking like a tiniest tiny percentage of people are
actually able to memorize information, and then transfer
that information easily into their long term memory just
through memorization, the majority of us, me, you,
everyone else really has a hard time doing that. And it is true
that you can practice those memorization skills to improve
your memorization ability by putting memorize things into
long term memory, but instead of doing that, there's actually a
better way. Don't try to memorize the card meanings
instead. Take the long slow approach slow tarot by doing
just a little bit at a time and as long as you keep it fun.
And interesting for yourself, you will learn those card
meanings without even like trying to, it is so much better
to do it that way it's so much more enjoyable and you actually
will then put that information into your long term memory,
which is where you want it when you're reading tarot cards. So,
take it long, be patient do slow tarot, and of course make it fun
for yourself. That's how you're actually going to learn the card
meanings.
Mistake number three is waiting to understand everything
perfectly. So this kind of divided into two problems first
is waiting to understand everything perfectly, meaning
you don't feel comfortable really diving into tarot spreads
until you know the tarot card meanings. You don't need to know
the meetings to read spreads, use the cheat sheet. Use like
notes, use those flashcards you made or the deck like use
whatever tools you can so you can just dive right into the
deep end. You're going to be fine.
So like waiting to understand everything perfectly, if you're
waiting, you're never going to get enough practice to actually
start getting good. So I do know that it is really intimidating
and terrifying really to read tarot for other people. But you
are going to become a better tarot reader, the more you
practice. So by reading for other people who are either
complete strangers on the internet and you never actually
have to see them again or by reading for people who are so
close to you that they're going to be super forgiving of your
mistakes. It's a great way to get practice and you don't need
to understand the card meanings or really know how to read tarot
cards to start practicing tarot reading, just dive right in. The
second half of this is waiting to understand everything
perfectly. You will never know everything perfectly. Tarot is
so complex and deep. You're not going to find any of that
complexity or depth really at The Simple Tarot. My job here is
to keep it simple, easy and fun and get you to the point where
you know that
Card meanings and feel really confident reading them so that
you can then start diving deep on your own or with some other
tarot teacher. Totally awesome when you get to that level, but
even at that level, you're not going to be a perfect tarot
reader, you're going to never know everything. Tarot is a
lifelong journey. And you're going to keep growing and
changing and learning with tarot As you keep learning mor
information, there is no lik perfect end. So don't wait star
right now because you're neve going to find perfection. Yo
definitely will find growt though, if you start today
sort of related to these three mistakes is the fourth mistake
which is trying to do too much at once. So tarot can be
overwhelming. I'll give you that. You've got the card
meanings. You've got the cheat sheet, you've got a deck you've
got spreads. Do you read for yourself? What about your tarot
journal? Do you read for other, okay? I know it's a lot. It
really is. But it doesn't need to be complicated
and you don't need to do it all
at once, although I do suggest you dive right in with tarot
readings. I don't think you need to read complicated spreads. You
don't need to read reverse cards, you can totally cheat on
the core cards. Just start with a simple one or two or maybe
even three card tarot reading, but you don't need to go to like
the Celtic Cross. Don't do everything at once. You don't
need to dive but I'm saying dive into the deep end of the pool.
You really could wear your floaties while you're over there
again diving in right you don't need to jump from the the
the huge diving board right, you can just jump right in. So don't
try to do too much do enough so that it's fun for you and
interesting but without being overwhelming. And remember it
tarot and learning tarot i really kind of a long hau
journey. You're never going t learn it perfectly, but you ar
going to continue to grow an learn over time. And the longe
you stay with it, the more yo learn. So really, you don't nee
to cram all that informatio into your brain right now. Yo
don't need to dive in and do it
Breathing perfect right now that's not possible. Really just
do a little bit today and then tomorrow, do another little bit
and another and it totally grows on itself. So don't try to do
too much at once or try to do everything all at once. Totally
not necessary. You're in this for a lifetime.
And so now there's two other things I see that are, they're
very common mistakes and they're not just mistakes that tarot l
arners make, I actually see m re advanced tarot readers m
king these two mistakes. So I j st want to give you a warning t
look out for these things in y ur tarot practice. They don't h
ve anything to do with l arning tarot. These two are m
re about reading tarot. And t e first one is about when you g
to the cards, you ask a bad q estion. I see this all the t
me and I don't like I really d n't
think that there's, I don't know saying bad makes it seem like a
judgmental thing like your good and you're bad but there really
are some questions that are better than others. And if you
go to the trouble
With a bad question, then you're most likely not going to get a
good answer. So if the question is leading, meaning that you're
trying to tell the tarot what t tell you like, I don't know. L
t's say you have a crush and y u're asking, you know, will T
mmy asked me out on Tuesday or T ursday when really Tommy has n
intention of asking you out i the taro is going to tell you t
at. Asking a bad question like t at a leading question means t
at you're not going to get the i formation you expect. And that m
ans you're probably not going t accept the information that t
e tarot is telling you. So j st be very, very careful you d
n't want when you're asking a t rot question. You don't want t
lead the tarot too much. You w nt to leave open room for the t
rot to be able to guide you a d answer the question in a way t
at you feel that you can a tually learn from the tarot r
ading. Also, be mindful of m nipulating other people or t
ying to control other people. A d this is just something that w
all go through but
The only things you can really control in your life are your
own beliefs, your own thoughts, your own words, your own choices
and your own actions. That's five things. And that's the only
thing in the world you get control over. Everything else,
outside of those five things is outside of your control, you may
be able to influence them, and that is a "may," but there's
o guarantee that you will ha e influence of them and you wi
l certainly not be able to contr l someone else's words, the
r choices, their actions, the r beliefs, or their their the
r thoughts. It might seem like y u can, you may really, really wa
t to be able to control tho e things. But ultimately, you ha
e zero control over those thin s when it relates to other peopl
. So when you're asking a go d tarot question, you're real
y going to be asking somethi g related to your sphere
f control, your thoughts, yo r beliefs, your choices, yo
r words and your actions. If t e tarot spread reading that you'
e trying to do is trying o control someone else or fi
d informati
That you can control someone else related to their actions or
their choices. Just know that you're not getting as good or as
strong of a reading
as you would if you were reading about your own self. Tarot is s
much about personal development and about growing as a huma
being, if you're trying t manipulate or control someon
else or some other situation there is no growth there. And s
tarot is not going to be s helpful for you if you are doi
g that. So I don't want to s y that's a bad question. But it
s certainly not as good to a k questions where you're trying
o influence someone else's worl , really try to keep it within t
e influence of your own sphere f control. And finally, this I s
e happening all the tim , especially, it does happen wh
n you're a new tarot reader. B t it also happens when you'
let's just say I do this still, and I try not to do it as a
mistake, but um, you repeat the same question over and over when
you go to the car.
Because you don't like the answer, so let's just say I was
asking about Tommy and that crush okay so Hey Tom, Hey Tar
t, you know when will Tommy as ed me out? And you get an ans
er that says Tommy's not gonna sk you out and then you say
ey Tommy or Hey Tarot, what is ommy think abou
And then you know the tarot g ves you another quote the a
swer that you don't p rticularly like so then you k
ep going back to the terror w th versions of the same q
estion like Hey Tommy, or Hey, T rot, when will Tommy start? You
now, having romantic feelings or me? Hey, Tarot, when are
Tommy and I gonna hook up? Like, if you keep going back to the
tarot with versions of the same question because you don't like
the answers. You are not learning and growing. And taro
is not a tool to help you. Yo are trying to manipulate an
control that situation, situation that you have n
control over. So repeating th same question over and over t
the taro because you don't lik the answer. Something we all do
but be mindful that you're doin it and that you're not going t
be gettin
useful information out of the tarot when you do that. The
tarot is very, very good at calling you out on your BS. So
just be open to the fact that you might get any information
back from the tarot that you actually don't want to hear.
It's really good at pointing out areas of your life that you're
ignoring or will unwilling to confront, especially when it
deals with the shadow side and things that feel dark or
unwelcome within you. So tarot can be a hard hard lesson,
taskmaster, I guess, lesson master, but be open to that
because that's where your personal growth and really the
best use of tarot is there. So those are the common mistakes I
really see for having to do with learning tarot and then to
having to do with reading tarot. And really, those two that have
to do with reading tarot are all about keeping terror within your
circle of control, trying to influence the world. Great. We
would all love to have great influence over the world, but
you can't control that.
The only thing you can control is your actions and your
choices, your words, your beliefs and your thoughts and
how you put yourself out into the world.
Yeah, so, everyone makes mistakes like these when they're
first learning how to read tarot cards, like everybody does. But
these, these mistakes are not fatal. They're totally a part of
the process. We all learn somehow, right? And tarot is a
lifelong process of learning more about the cards, and
learning more about ourselves. So one of the best tools for
that learning which is great for beginners, but it's also
powerful enough to keep more advanced tarot readers
challenged, is the simple daily draw. This is, in my opinion,
one of the best ways to learn tarot, but also to keep tarot
regular habit in your dail life. It is simple, powerful
and surprisingly easy. So pu together this video about th
daily draw. I'll explain mor there. And now I'll go see yo
there