How do you do your daily draw? Do you have a question? A direction even, what you should focus on, what you should avoid?
I've had a tendency to just 'pull a card' without thinking about what I was actually asking.
As a flipside to my 'can't always get what you want' observation about reading, this results in a 'could be anything you want' reading. Without a position in a spread, without a question (a bit like the old 'clarifier', really) the 'just pulling a card' could be read as a warning, an invitation, it could be us, it could be someone else... it could be anything, really.
I feel an intuitive reader might suggest that we should, intuitively, understand what the message is. And perhaps so. But I think part of the whole point of using Tarot and its traditions is to give our insight some boundaries and focus.
So when I 'draw a card for the day', what am I actually asking?
I've personally never really done the daily draw thing.
I tried it once or twice then got bored with it and just started doing one reading per day on a topic that interested me. I found so many topics that interested me to ask about, there was no shortage for me. If nothing was going on in my life on a given day I went on to the philosophical ones: like what I am meant to learn in this lifetime, what is the nature of destiny, HOW are we all connected, ...etc and so forth. The questions about the meaning of life and how it works have always always been my favourites.
That said, I think that if you are going to pull a card a day then you need to have a question in mind. If you pull a card without even thinking what you are asking, I know for me that would not work. UNLESS I had told the cards at the start that I am going to pull a card each day from now on and the question I mean for them to answer is: "X" (question).
I believe that you need to be focused to read,a daily draw is a reading. And ideally you need to be thinking of the question, or at least ask it.
There is
always a question technically. If we don't have anything in mind, then the question is something like "Tell me something I need to know right now." That is
still a question, as you are asking the cards to do something, to tell you something.
But there is always a question. Like if I querent has no question in mind, I still ask the cards what they most need to know right now. And the cards should tell them that. I never try to read without a question in mind.
To me, if you just hold the cards in your hands and flip a card over without asking anything at all then it is not a reading. If it is not a reading , then just random cards will come up. I think you have to at least SAY to the cards inside yourself. I am going to pull a card now, please tell me something I need to know.
That is my belief on that. At least I know, from my own experience, that for me nothing would happen if I did not ask a question. Meaning that just random cards would come up with no meaning.
Maybe if you draw a card a day the question is something like "What can you tell me about today?" of "What do I need to know about today?"
Or you could try asking something like: "What do I need to know about today to live my best day (or make the most of today)?" or "Tell me something joyful about today?" or "What can I rejoice in knowing today?" or "What can I learn today that it would improve my life to know?" or "How can I be my best self today?" or "What would be really fun for me to do today?" or "What can I look forward to about today?" ....but then maybe those are more than daily draws? But those are the kinds of questions that I find fun.
Babs