Receiving a “Hard” Pull

Feb 8

Transform your relationship with receiving.

For most of us, even the most seasoned of readers, there are moments when we come to our decks and are served cards that we have a hard time accepting, or seeing the gifts of. This is so normal and okay.

We talk so much about pulling cards and reading cards, but we don’t talk much about the art of actually receiving the gifts of the cards we pull — especially when it’s something, for one reason or another, that we don’t want to hear or see.

There are some helpful steps to turning this around that work amazingly well for me and my students, shifting the way we receive the medicine of the cards we pull.

A practice for RECEIVING MEDICINE

1) Pause.

2) Feel the feelings that arise without pushing them away (discomfort, frustration, fear, anxiety, the desire to reshuffle and pull other cards, etc).

3) Momentarily step away from the cards, even if it’s just to get a glass of water.

4) Come back to the card, or cards, and ask, “What is this bringing for me, rather than to me?”

In pausing, breathing, and letting the initial feelings about the pull roll through us without attaching to them, we open ourselves to receiving the gifts of the reading. By shifting our mindset again and again and again with the Tarot, asking what it’s bringing for us, rather than to us, we transform our relationship with receiving, moving from frustration to willingness.