Welcome to The Tarot Circle! 🎉⭐️🎉 You've found your people !! The most successful members here who experience the most confidence & growth, learn the meanings of the cards, & start trusting their intuition & get off the guidebook faster... They aren't the ones who know a lot about tarot to begin with... 🔥 They're the ones asking questions, commenting on the daily tarot prompts, engaging with & supporting others, & sharing wins & insights! And most importantly they are having fun! We take tarot seriously here but we DON'T take ourselves seriously! Here's how you grow here & build your tarot skills so you can read confidently for others and get off the guidebook! 1. Introduce yourself in the comments below (where you're from, your favorite tarot card, and one quirky thing about you 😁!! 2. Go to the START HERE classroom for all important info 3. Engage, connect and comment on other people's posts or start your own! 📝 4. Level up and get these free resources below!! 🎁 FREE RESOURCES! Oracle Card Magic Summit May 18th-24th!! - The Tarot Quick Start Guide - The Tarot Circle Directory ✨ - Tarot Keywords & Numerology Cheatsheets ⭐️ - Lunar Insight & Tarot Journal 🌙

Ok, let's talk tarot spreads! What is a spread? A spread is predetermined card positions with assigned meanings or questions for each card pulled for each position. As a beginner, should you even use a spread? Can't you just pull some cards and try and read them together? You can.... But, in order the break the rules you need to know the rules first. (Picasso) And parameters actually force creativity, not constrain it! (I learned this the hard way in art school!) When you're bound by the spread, you're forced to read within the bounds of the meanings of the positions of the cards and the predetermined questions. This makes you think, it makes you question, it forces you to be quiet and let your intuition have a chance to poke it's head out. This is how you learn to tell a story. This is how you learn to weave the cards together cohesively. Can it be hard? Yes. Can it be frustrating? Yes. But you have to practice. Practice. Over and over again. Sorry. 🤣 But you do need to practice strategically. In a way that will build skill. And yes, reading tarot is more skill than intuition! (Bet ya didn't see that coming!) Wait, what? Yes, it's about 90% skill and only about 10% intuition. Think about it. Let's use myself as an example. I'm an artist. I'm a good artist if I say so myself. I have work in a museum show right now. I just got juried into a new arts association. So, I got some skills. (Girls like guys with skills🎬🤣) Now was I born an amazing artist? Did I come out of the womb with the ability to paint the way I do now? Nope. I was born with about 10% innate talent. That's it. That's what most talented people are born with. And all of us are born with intuition. About 10% innate intuition. So, how did I get the other 90% of my talent that allowed me to get where I am now? I freakin practiced. Like, a lot. I mean a lot. Do you know how many naked people I've drawn or the same damn still life I've drawn, over and over and over again? 100's, maybe 1000's.

@Jeff Peden got me started the other day on my collective noun obsession and I thought it would be fun to do a little competition of comments (see what I did there... 🤪) and see who's got their favorites or who can make up the best ones! What is a collective noun? It describes a collection of things such as: A deck of tarot cards! A herd of cows A flock of seagulls 🤣 Etc.. I have an obsession. I make them up. I go crazy for them. I'll keep my very inappropriate ones to myself! 😂 Let's see what you've got!

What mood does this card give off? One word: Then assign it: A theme Movie 🎬 A theme song 🎶 And a theme snack! 🍿

This is the official thread for the week! Post your stars here in the comments as you earn them!! You can just post as you go! We have @Ronni Mulvaney and @Nova Maree-Prophet in the lead for last week! This is an honor system. We expect you to self report your stars and stay true to the challenge. I'm counting on you to record truthfully what you've done for the week! You can give yourself more than one star in each category. However, you can only earn 20 stars max for the entire week to keep it fair and manageable. We do keep a pretty close eye on the group. Give yourself a ⭐ for every new thing you learned this week, even if it was tiny Give yourself a ⭐ for every new member you tagged and welcomed or intro post you replied to Give yourself a ⭐ for every time you tagged someone and hyped their win Give yourself a ⭐ for every comment that made you laugh or you learned something Give yourself a ⭐ for every time you posted anything at all this week Give yourself a ⭐ for every comment you made that was more than just a gif or emoji Give yourself a ⭐ for every time you touched your tarot deck this week even if you didn't pull a card Give yourself a ⭐ for every tarot card you pulled even if you had no idea what it meant Make sure you are posting your stars in the comment thread of this post for well one! They will not be counted in any other posts for week one! @Jeff Peden made a post here to help you out! Every week we will have the most gold stars leaderboard announcement!