Meditations are useful in calming and centering the mind. Photo by Steve Bonner
By Michelle Crandell
When teaching LEARN TO READ TAROT, I lead students through several guided imagery meditations. Practicing these meditations helps develop the ability to interpret rich, symbolic visual imagery, like the imagery found in the Tarot. Three I use:
- GROUNDING. Grounding meditations are easy to find on the internet. They are used to calm and center the mind, focus on the present moment, and induce a mild trance state, helpful when doing a Tarot reading. Grounding is also protective because it helps keep the reader safe when opening to problems presented by the person being read for.
- SITTING IN THE PRESENT MOMENT is a Buddhist/Taoist meditation used to see future possibilities (open the Third Eye chakra). Here is a simplified version. “Imagine sitting in a safe place, contemplating a choice you want to make. Take yourself to the next “present moment” having made that choice. Sit in this new reality. Experience the consequences. Go to the next choice stemming from the one you imagined, sit there, and experience that reality. Go back to sitting in the first present moment. Make a different choice.”
- ENTER THE CARD. Found in Mary Greer’s Tarot for Yourself, this meditation guides you through an interactive experience within a specific Tarot card, followed by a written exercise where you chronicle what happened while you were “in the card.” You are guided to receive a gift and ask a question of any figure in the card. This is an excellent way to learn how each card gives different messages at different times.
Michelle Crandell provides individual Tarot readings for a fee. Once a year, she teaches LEARN TO READ TAROT. Call if interested in her next class. To learn more, email michelle.crandell@gmail.com, or call 501-655-6242.
