Tarot For Mental Health —
3 Big Ways It Helps Me
One of my main focuses for this blog has always been mental health as poor mental health has plagued me almost all of my life. Not just my own, my mother, stepfather and father’s too. I am currently in therapy in a bid to deal with the trauma of my past and release it so I can have a happier, healthier future. Of course, one hour per week of therapy is not enough on its own so I do work by myself and using tarot for mental health has been a vital part of this process.
How I Use Tarot And How I Don’t
Over the years, the uses for tarot have become very stereotyped in mainstream media. Women in scarves sitting at tables with dim lights. Predicting the future and promising riches and a handsome husband or alternatively, delivering the shocking news that their client has been cursed but not to worry! The tarot reader can help lift it!
I do not believe this at all. Firstly, it assumes that the future is fixed and nothing any of us does can change it. I think this is nonsense. Secondly, I believe that the message from a tarot reading is always nuanced, never wholly good or bad. So promising your life will be all roses or that terrible peril awaits is just rubbish.
If I could use one word to describe tarot it would be “mirror”. Each tarot reading…
