When it comes to tarot, I’m not an expert and I tend to just follow my intuition and have a conversation with my deck. However, sometimes it’s nice to find inspiration for spreads or reads online. Sometimes using guidebooks or tarot journals can be useful as well. I often times look at traditional spreads & spreads online and make them my own. I have found some good online resources & other resources for learning tarot.
Online Resources
Emerald Lotus Divination is a resource I love to use. She has a large tarot spread library consisting of many Shadow Work, Self Growth, and Transformation spreads. Most of these aren’t showing timelines and in depth predictions but they are showing you what to work on within yourself.
Website: emeraldlotusdivination.com
Labyrinthos is another resource I have used often. It has a great guide to tarot meanings and some good spreads. They also have free tarot lessons and digital decks if you are interested in that.
Website: labyrinthos.co
Biddy Tarot is a popular online resource for tarot that I haven’t personally used yet. Here you can find free & paid tarot readings, card meanings, certification classes & an online community.
Website: biddytarot.com
Books
Guided Tarot: A Beginner’s Guide to Card Meanings, Spreads and Intuitive Exercises for Seamless Readings, by Stefanie Caponi is a book I was gifted when I first started. It provides some basic spreads, gives in depth meanings, has a quick reference chart, and explains how to do a reading with intuition exercises. It is a great book for just getting started. You can find it on amazon, here.
Buy it on Amazon.
The Weiser Tarot Journal: Guidance and Practice by Teresa Reed is an amazing tarot journal I’m using right now. I absolutely love it and it includes includes fully illustrated layouts and instructions for eight spreads-1-card, 2-card, 3-card, 4-card, Celtic Cross, Horseshoe, Astrological Wheel, and Weiser’s own Ankh spread. It also includes 208 Journal Pages and 1,920 full-color Tarot Stickers.
Buy it on Amazon
Make A Junk Journal
One thing that I’ve also wanted to do was make my own Journal or Grimoire for divination in the style of a Junk Journal. These are very scrapbook inspired journals. The purpose is repourpusing, upcycling, and collaging using old books, envelopes, magazines, paper, and bind it together and fill the pages with tags, sketches, cards or memories loose or in pockets. There are no specific rules but some people turn it into a guide or grimoire with information in it. Other’s turn it into a journal for journaling their reads. You could do both.
This is on my list for the future. I just tend to not have much left for repurposing because I already do that a lot for other things. I could do a thrift & used goods book. I found a great guide for making one and I’ll post the link. You would just make it so that it fits your needs whether that’s divination or an overarching grimoire. You can also find pages on etsy or pinterest that have all the tarot information on them already. Some can be edited on Canva.
Guide: https://vervainandtheroses.com/junk-journal-grimoire-reasons-to-start/
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