Tarot magick can be as simple as finding an appropriate card and leaving in on your altar.  You can also sleep with the card under your pillow, or hold the card to your chakras and breathe in its energy.

Tarot magick works with the idea that each tarot card holds a specific energy. Choose the card that holds the energy that you want in your life, and consciously bring the energy of that card into your life. Tarot is a simple, effective tool for this kind of magickal work.

 If there is something you need to remove, heal from, or release, you can find a card that represents what you want to release. Look at the card, and talk to it. Bid it farewell in a stern voice, and place it face down on your altar.

Even in the process of divination, we can use quick tarot magick to mitigate a coming problem, or to hasten a positive event. Tarot author Rachel Pollack has rightly described the conscious process of reversing a card as a magickal act.

Imagine a divination process where you can take some control of the outcome!

Next time you see something in a divination that you would like to heal or mitigate, emphatically reverse the offending card, with the full weight of your intention, after you’ve completed the divination.

Magick is the simple exercise of shaping energy. Tarot harnesses specific energies in a way that allows us to identify and embrace them.

There are some great books on using tarot for magick. Remember, though, that you have the ability to work with the energies of tarot in any way that feels right for you. That’s especially true if your tarot magick comes from your intuition and creativity, rather than directly from a book.

 -Christiana