What do you do with daily cards?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 30 Sep 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Kyrielle	30 Sep 2002
Those of you who use daily cards, what do you use them for? Daily energy forecasts, daily advice? Or is the resulting tally of cards from each suit at the end of the month, indicating in retrospect the energy of the month, the most important part? I tried to do daily cards for part of the month with the Glastonbury, but found little correlation between the card drawn and the events/thoughts/energy of the day. Most notable is that I drew a bunch of Swords toward the beginning of the month, then a bunch of Vesicas (Pentacles). I'll try again for October with a different deck, and see if I'm still mystified. Or maybe I'll do a daily 3-card draw so that there's more to go on. -- Kyrielle

wavebreaker	30 Sep 2002
Quote: Originally posted by Kyrielle Those of you who use daily cards, what do you use them for? Daily energy forecasts, daily advice? Or is the resulting tally of cards from each suit at the end of the month, indicating in retrospect the energy of the month, the most important part? Both really. I draw my cards in the evening, for the following day. And there's often a moment during the day that I think of the card I drew and realise what the card was referring to. Sometimes this is just a sort of forecast, other times I take it as advice. I usually find that I can relate the minors to the day, but that this is not always possible with the majors. They usually don't make sense until afterwards, when I look back at the month as a whole. Same with suits.

Kaz	30 Sep 2002
i confess of not having enough discipline to do daily draws. i tried, but i forget them anyway, so i think they are not important for me. kaz

Fuzzmello	30 Sep 2002
Quote: Originally posted by Kyrielle I tried to do daily cards for part of the month with the Glastonbury, but found little correlation between the card drawn and the events/thoughts/energy of the day. Most notable is that I drew a bunch of Swords toward the beginning of the month, then a bunch of Vesicas (Pentacles). This is why I'm keeping a journal. I draw three cards, (basis, action and outcome) and jot down whatever I'm thinking when I draw them. No real patterns have popped up yet, but mainly I'm doing it to get familiar with the images as I learn meanings. One thing though. Originally I thought the action card would be my action and it seems to be pointing to actions of others that influence me. The other cards are probably saying the same thing, I'm just too new to see it yet... Fuzz

Kath	30 Sep 2002
I look for patterns. My daily cards don't usually correspond to the type of day I have, but I look for recurring cards and themes to indicate upcoming events. If the same card comes up a more than three or four times over a two week period (or similar cards keep coming up), and I have no idea what it is referring to, I do a small spread to get some more insight. This system works for me. I kept getting the Tower a few months a go, so I did a reading, and sure enough, within two days the Tower fell, and the reading was spot on regarding what area of my life the Tower was referring to. Cheers Kath

Teranar	30 Sep 2002
Ok, I'm self taught and made my own tarot spreads, but I've never really heard of daily drawings. Is that where you draw three cards each day or week? That's what I'm guessing from your descriptions.

Alex	30 Sep 2002
I'm doing 3-card weakly readings. The reason being, too many cards, and too freequently, confuse me. I used to draw the daily card in the AM and then take it as an opportunity to reflect upon the card's meaning and it's place in my life, during the day. Daily cards never worked well forecasting things for me unless I made the effort to strech their meanings enough to make the connection. I think it's a bit shalow to draw The Tower in the AM and then come to the conclusion in the end of the day that it was about forgetting the car's headlights on and having no battery to start again. However, I'm too serious and there is no reasonn anyone should take themselves, or the cards, that seriously. It is just my personal take on the subject. Alex.

jema	01 Oct 2002
i take one each day and use it as a focus to learn both about the tarot and about myself. i use each card as a stepping board to write questions for myself - why i act the way i do and how i could change my patterns. the end tally is just a bonus where i can see what themes the month held. i do not use the card a day to divine the future. even though since i hold the cards evenrgy in my mind it is often predictive of my day too perhaps because on a moon day i will think more of hidden things and my shadow and my spirit. and on a 8 of wands day i might be more eager to communicate cause communication is on my mind that day. but mainly it is a learning tool.

Jenny-Li	01 Oct 2002
I think I'm basically with Jema on this one. I mean I draw my cards, but I don't expect them to tell me what my day will be like, but use them for reflection and as a way of relating to my life. Therefore I don't get disappointed when I can't relate completely to the day's cards - although often I find that they do cover some of the energy in motion, only sometimes not in the scope of just one day... What the cards speak of generally is something in the air, but it may have happened already, but I haven't quite let it go, or it may be something that is taking shape to occur sometime in the future. And I think sometimes they will reflect what one is heading for, but when you see the cards you will alter your way, and it will not happen because of that. I haven't really done any "end-of-the-month"-statistics on my dailies, but I go through them in my mind sometimes, and just register whether I'm in a Majors-period or a Pents-period or something else. Those patterns can also make sense, whether it's a specific month or not - it's basically the kind of patterns you have noticed too, I see! I draw three cards a day, but that is actually mainly because I started doing these daily readings when working with the three-card-spread presented in the Tarot for Yourself, and I've stuck with it since. I don't think more cards means you have more to go on - if it's daily divination you want, it might even be trickier to fit in three cards instead of just one. But it's like everything else - it's all in what you want and make out of it! Good luck! Light and love, Jenny :)

Kazz	01 Oct 2002
Like Tarotlady, I pull one card in the evening for the following day. I then look at the card and write down in a journal/book how I feel about that card and what it means to me, then at the end of my day (the following evening) I review my card and right down the events of my day. Sometimes the daily card doesn't make much sense to me in regards to that day, but it sometimes happens in the following day or two, so that is why i have to write it down. Cheers Kazz :TQC

Diana	01 Oct 2002
It really depends on the cards. Sometimes they are obviously giving me advice, like to turn my tongue around a thousand times in my mouth before talking!. Sometimes they are quite simply divining stuff for me, like that I'd better get to that petrol station (gas station for you Americans), if I don't want to break down on the highway. And sometimes they are just little lights which show me better what's going on in my life.

Trogon	01 Oct 2002
Quote: Originally posted by Teranar Ok, I'm self taught and made my own tarot spreads, but I've never really heard of daily drawings. Is that where you draw three cards each day or week? That's what I'm guessing from your descriptions. Teranar - as you've probably figured out already, some people use a single card and others use a multi-card spread for their daily readings. Personally, I use the 3-card daily pyramid which I got from TarotSpreads.com. It goes thusly; .............2 .......1.........3 1 - Beginning of the day (how things will go/what will influence the start of your day) 2 - Peak of the day (the main "theme" of the day) 3 - Ending of the day (how things will wrap up) If nothing else, doing daily readings is good practice for you. I have to confess, though, that I don't always remember to do my "daily reading" every day. Though I'm getting better at it... ;)

Strega	01 Oct 2002
Same with Diana. The purpose varies for me. Each morning, I draw a card which then becomes my "theme of the day" -- it could be an advice... an energy forecast... or just something I need to learn from. :)

Laurel	01 Oct 2002
I use my Daily Card as the time to study the symbols and meanings of one specific card more intently. In the past, I've tried to apply the Daily Card directly to each day but only with limited success. Or rather, if was as useful as reading my daily horoscope in the newspaper... I could certainly make the general forecast "fit" to the events going on in my life... but there wasn't necessarily a lot of precision. I just finished a 78 card deliberate draw (pre-selecting the card of the day), but this time I'm going to use a random draw, until each individual card comes up at least once. :) After that, I'm probably going to switch decks and instead of using the Thoth for my daily draw, use my new Marseilles or my Haindl or even the good old Rider-Waite. Laurel

Jewel	01 Oct 2002
I use daily cards as daily guides. I draw it in the morning, having setting out close to me all day and then reflect on my day and the card at night. During the day I use it to look at things from the perspective of the card drawn that day. For the last few months I have been using the Faerie Oracle, not a tarot deck, for daily cards, but the process I use is the same. At night I go write in about my day and its relation to the card in my journal.

zorya	01 Oct 2002
i pull three cards every morning, one rune, and two soul cards. the positions of the three tarot cards are not set. i just use my intuition to tell me what the positions are and if they are giving me advice or telling me of the events of the day. it's amazing how well the three kinds of draws i do relate. i always keep a journal and seldom do they not seem to make sense.

Pollux	01 Oct 2002
The times I feel like using daily cards, I generally look at all the variants I have handy, in my small collections, and from some other decks online. I too mainly use it for study purposes. I dodn't journal though. BUT, I always draw my version of the card at the end of the day. I used to at least :P That way I could sum up visually, in yet another card, all the symbolic aspects I had learnt and seen in the cards I had checked, in the events that might have matched my daily-cards during the day, and in the things I had learnt or retrieved in my memory by reading back in my old books. I never used single cards myself, but also had three card spreads - varying on my mood. Generally Body-Mind-Spirit. I should start journalling, and doing it again...

Maan	02 Oct 2002
I normaly draw a card in the morning..i use them to see the trends of the day and as a focus when i look back on my day in the evening. I just did this for the first time this month but when i look up the cards i drew in the last month a get great insides in the way my life is developing. O and drawing daily cards is a great way to get to know a new deck...learning the "language" of the deck

MeeWah	02 Oct 2002
I do the same as Maan. I prefer to pull daily cards "cold" in the morning; that is, before the morning meditation/prayer session. The card(s) may give a clue to the tone of the day & serves as a focus or something to work on. I also prefer to "break in" a new deck by using it for daily cards.

Francesca	02 Oct 2002
I will often draw a card in the evening and then think about it and read about it and study it a little before I go to bed. I take it that the card wants me to understand it a little. I have just started laying out a 2-card spread--situation and challenge--in the mornings to see what the day's energy is like. This month I think I will try to start and keep record of these little spreads. Usually I only write down my larger, Celtic Cross readings. Francesca

Dark Inquisitor	02 Oct 2002
I have been doing a daily spread for a few months now, and it has been pretty accurate. I was dissatisfied with ones I had seen, so I made up my own to be more on target for what I wanted to know. I will post this spread in the Using Tarot Cards section, in case anybody wants to play along at home. Tarotphelia

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