Think of yourself as a tarot athlete! First of all, like an athlete does, you have to ‘warm up’, then you have to start training and practicing, practicing and training, training and practicing, until the required skill levels are reached. This takes effort. There is no ‘quick fix’. But you can practice and train! And the more you do, the faster success will come.

So you have your cards, and now you need to go on to the next step in the process of intuitive tarot work, which is building a positive energy around them. What you are actually doing is building a bond between them and you, so that every time you pick them up they will have a ‘feel good’ feeling about them.

“Crikey”, you might be saying, “They are only a load of printed cards, so why do I have to make all this effort!” But if you treat them like bits of ‘printed card’, then you will never be intuitively successful with them, and you may as well give up with your reading of this book. If you like and respect an object then you will build an aura of positive energy around that object, and it will feel ‘warm’, as if it has an inner life, and the same goes for your tarot cards.

But if you treat your cards without respect, and that ‘warmth’ is not built up, then you will find it difficult to work with your cards intuitively. Therefore spending time getting to know them is a must, and here is how you do that:

Harmonizing your cards:

There are two ways to do this: the Sunshine Blessing or the Candle Blessing. It is your choice as to which blessing you choose, but the Candle Blessing is probably the better option if the weather is not too helpful and the sun is refusing to shine.