#steps 1-4

Date: Saturday December 30, 2017

Key

✖ - don't have/haven't done yet

🔮 - in process

✔ - complete

Preparation ✖

Drawstring pouch to hold cards

Cloth of around 24 inches to lay them on

Gently shuffle, card over card (on cloth)

Take large cotton handkerchief, lay cards in center, and tie corners of material together so cards are secured

Place bundle underneath pillow and sleep over it that night

Shuffle deck on regular basis until start to feel right and fall into place

Request for guidance when removing cards from container:

"I ask and give thanks to the universe for guidance, protection, and assistance."

Using a crystal: quartz ✖

Choose a cleansing method: hold under running water from natural stream or sea / soak in water w sea salt up to 24 hr, then rinse w mineral water

Then: place on window ledge to receive natural sunlight or moonlight for a full day or evening

Tarot diary 🔮 (tagged: tarot diary)

Examining each card:

Hold it, then writing down meaning as you say it out loud

If memory of events experienced by you or someone you know is triggered by one of the cards meaning, take note

Example layout for each card

Date

Card name, number and picture

Card meaning: may wish to use bullet points

Personal experiences: list any personal experiences that relate to this card's meaning

Other's experiences: list others experiences that remind you of this card

Record anything relevant from dreams + intuition (tagged: dreams)

Intuition: examples

"Flash thoughts", with a certain feeling of knowingness

"See" images, similar to daydreams

Sense things when in people's company, or from environment

Feel like knots or butterflies in your stomach, or smell things that aren't there