Spirit Work Using Tarot:

Since Samhain, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day are coming up this weekend, I wanted to put together my thoughts on using tarot to communicate with spirits. It’s not a complete tutorial by any means. I definitely wouldn’t try speaking with spirits if you don’t know how to make sure they leave and that’s extremely tradition specific. As always, practice safe spirit work folks.

Tarot is my main spirit communication tool. It’s variable and complex with allows for those sorts of meanings to come through. Since I’ve been working with tarot for 13+ years now, the conversation can flow fairly naturally.

Lots of folks prefer a pendulum when starting out. You can actually use tarot in a pendulum like system: Cups for yes, Swords for no, Pentacles for maybe, Wands for it’s complicated, and Major Arcana for ask again later. That’s more than enough to start with even if you don’t know specific tarot meanings.

The one big mistake I see folks making is that they will pull one big spread. One, these are almost always harder to read. It give the spirit one shot to say everything they want and the message can come out kind of garbled. Two, it doesn’t mirror how human conversations work and this matters a lot when you’re working with human dead. If you invite someone to come through, working in small batches let’s there be a give and take. They can shape the conversation too. Especially if you’re inviting someone you knew in life to come through, it’s worth mirroring that exchange in death.

Source: hillbillyoracle