Make Your Own Tarot Cards

As you become skilled at reading tarot cards, you are probably going to be inspired to make your own tarot cards. The thing you need to realize is that while it might seem like a fun project, there is a lot of work involved once you decide to make your own tarot cards. What many people don't realize is that making tarot cards is not so much about art as it is about making cards to which you can feel a connection. Tarot cards are not just cardstock with pictures. Tarot cards are infused with energy and you can feel that energy when you read the cards. Creating cards that conduct that energy is much harder than it looks.

It can take a long time to make your own tarot cards. There are seventy eight cards in a tarot deck and thinking of individual designs for seventy eight things is hard enough. Tarot cards tell a story, and designing a single image that tells a complicated story is a serious undertaking. Often these images are filled with small stories and details that fill the viewer in as to what the card means. Here are some tips if you are trying to decide whether or not to make your own tarot cards:

1. Go easy. Even professional artists would be frustrated with the process of creating a deck of tarot cards. Your pictures do not have to be perfect.

2. Don't plan on creating an entire tarot deck in an afternoon. Creating a tarot deck you can be proud of can take several years.

3. Make sure you are intimately familiar with the different parts of the tarot deck. Of course the best tarot deck is one you created to match how you picture or what you feel about each card, but if you want to read other people's cards, it is best to adhere to the distinctions of each of the groups in a tarot deck.

4. Think about the way you practice tarot reading, why you practice tarot reading and what more you might want to get out of tarot reading. If you are a skilled reader you might want to create a deck that matches your skill. If you are more of a “pleasure in the basics” kind of reader, you should make your own tarot cards that reflect that.

5. In addition to all of the spirituality that goes into the creation of a deck of tarot cards, there are certain practical things you need to consider as well. For example, you want to make sure the cards fit your hands. Something too large or too small will be more annoying than it will be spiritual.

At some point you will probably think that you want to make your own tarot cards. Before you pull out the cardstock, decide why you want to make your own tarot cards and what you hope to get out of the process. Once you know what your goals are, all that is left is to take a deep breath and get to work.

Meaning of Each Tarot Card Tip #1

Tarot is an intuitive art, but it is not fortune telling. Tarot will not tell you anything that you do not already know, and it cannot predict the future. Instead tarot sheds insight on issues that you might have been avoiding and helps point you in the direction of answers that you have been looking for.

Meaning of Each Tarot Card Tip #2

Choosing a tarot deck is not an easy process. If you simply choose the cheapest deck or the first deck of tarot cards that crosses your path, the cards probably will not work for you. Use your intuition to decide which tarot cards are right for you. You will feel a connection that you cannot explain when you first set hands on the deck of tarot cards that you are meant to have.

Meaning of Each Tarot Card Tip #3

The history of tarot cards is long and varied and full of myths that have mostly been debunked. The modern version of tarot cards are based upon various forms of playing cards that date back for a few hundred years. There is no first definitive tarot deck because the idea was taken from different decks of cards.