Unusual tarot-reading techniques at The Sceptic's Tarot
The Sceptic's Tarot teaches various unusual techniques for reading tarot cards. We believe in breaking the rules!
These techniques make both tarot reading and jo urnaling deeper and more meaningful. Several of these reading techniques will work with any tarot reading.
Twice the wisdom
Reading a card twice is one of my favourite reading techniques. It allows you to get two distinct messages from the same card.
The middle card in the "Something bad happened" and "Turning crisis to action" techniques offers both an aspect of the crisis and a concrete action to take. It shows literally how to turn a crisis into action.
In the Magic Square spread, a worry becomes hope, a feeling becomes a thought, a thought becomes hope, and once you reach hope, you can go through another cycle of worry to peace.
There are other advantages to reading a card twice.
- It’s compact, giving you fewer cards to study while thoroughly exploring the problem. For example, in the SWOT spread, only eight cards represent twelve card positions, meaning you have fewer cards to study.
- Since you’ve already studied a card for a previous position, you don’t need to start from scratch. Instead, you can build on what you’ve already learned about the card.
The technique appears in three spreads and one technique:
- The magic square spread: From worry to peace
- SWOT spread: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
- Something bad happened/Turning crisis into action
- Sum of our relationship
Pre-perception
Giving the interpretation before reading the card .... A radical change! This journaling technique goes unexpectedly deep into the issue you want to reflect on. You go through the situation twice: once without and once with the cards.
Where does it go?
This technique guides you to look at the cards from different directions. It works with any reflection spread.
Choices, choices
This technique is not new; I've seen it in a few tarot-reading techniques. Instead of choosing cards at random, with this technique, you go through your deck and find the cards you feel represent the situation.
In The Optimist's technique, you go even further: not choosing appropriate cards but choosing the cards you want to see!
Set my place!
This technique lets you choose where the cards go, but there's a catch!
Substitute
Would you like to get rid of a card? Now you can!
Subset of sages
Ask the royals for advice with this technique. The most effective way to solve a tricky problem is by looking at it from a different direction. Here, you ask for royal advice.
Reshuffle
Reshuffle is a fun technique where you also look at aspects of a problem from different directions. In this case, through the lens of two cards.
- Re-shuffle: A technique to deepen your deepen your tarot reading
- The chosen cards technique also incorporates reshuffling.
Cross-groupings
Cross-groupings are intense and informative. They can work with any two-card grouping, including problem/solution, strength/weakness, fear/hope, known/unknown, and me/you.
Shifty
This technique, like many of the above, also incorporates reading cards more than one, but in this case, you reverse the order of the spread.
Half & half
This technique needs a particular spread, but it doesn't have to be mine. When you understand the technique, you can create your own spreads.
What if
What if you were someone or something on the card? What would you see, do, feel, hear and touch?
More than one card per position
Any spread can use this technique: instead of just one card per position, you can have two or more. This is the opposite of the "Twice the wisdom" technique above.
Add something
And finally (but who knows!), you can add a card that might change the whole character of the spread.
And that's it! We'll break a few more rules soon, so watch this post!
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