A deck of Tarot cards

A Journal

I strongly recommend that you use a physical pen & paper notepad for daily journaling during this course. Each daily practice will ask you to read about, examine, reflect, or meditate on something. Taking notes during that time to return to, as well as noting any impressions or insights you experience at other times in relationship to the work you’re doing, has several benefits:

• completion and integration of information.
• a historical record of important moments.
• a means of reflecting on your journey.
• future you might unlock what feels like vague ideas now.
• a deeper understanding of what works for you and what doesn’t.
• uncover patterns in your learning and life more broadly.

It’s also good practice (and fascinating) to keep records of any pulls, readings, and interpretations you make. In the next lesson, you will see more details about how I organize such an entry.

If you are really committed to digital notes, here are a few options to consider:

1. iPhone is great at scanning documents into the notes app. You can then add hashtags to make the note searchable and find it for future reference. Google Keep has similar functionality.
2. I’ve had great luck with RocketBook, a form of reusable notebook that integrates with digitization. It has the added benefit of handwriting recognition for future searching and editing. I believe there are many similar products on the market now.

Notecards (or second Journal)

Each time you work with a card, you can work on “defining” it. These definitions are your own personal shorthand for what the card means, it’s important symbols, where it fits in the deck, and anything else you may think of. You can keep adding to and updating this reference notecard as you engage in ongoing practice, readings, and research.

Notecards have the benefit of doubling as flashcards for study, card analogs, and being able to be reorganized as you explore the different relationships between cards. You can get sets that come on rings, get notecard boxes, or use rubber bands to keep them together and make them travel-friendly.

Keeping a second journal just as your Tarot Encyclopedia works, too! We will explore this in more detail later on.

~30-minutes/day for practice

These 30 minutes don’t have to happen all at once, at the same time every day, or even be used every day!

Many days will not require a full 30 minutes, but that doesn’t mean using that much time won’t be good for you. The point is less about “can you get the work done” and more about setting time aside in your life for the practice you’ve chosen to participate in. However, skipping days can result in stress, so please start thinking about how you will work at least some time with tarot in every day.