Okay, so I’ve been lurking a lot here for a while, and it sometimes feels like how you guys all get messages from the Tarot might as well be another language to me. How do you actually become a psychic?
Which makes me wonder if this is even something you can learn, or if you need to have had at least something happen naturally first. Because right now I’m at literal zero.
Where do I start? The obvious start seems to be learning how to read the Tarot, but then what?
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You’re not at zero, being drawn to this stuff already counts.
“Psychic” isn’t one ability. It’s the clair senses: clairvoyance (mental images), clairsentience (gut feelings or picking up others’ emotions), clairaudience (inner words), claircognizance (sudden knowing). Most folks have one dominant one, clairsentience is super common, like feeling anxious in a room for no reason.
You can test your latent magick ability with a test like this, but you also might already just know with your own intuition. I mean, that’s kind of part of it, but you can use a Tarot spread to tap into that same knowing to get the details. Not everyone’s ability is going to look the exact same, so it might take a little time to uncover.
This would be my suggestion (though ideally get someone here to do the reading for you)
You could do a spread on the question, but a single card can at least point you in the direct direction if you don’t want to do that.
Pick one card (random or one that draws you). Sit with it 10-20 minutes, study every detail: colors, expressions, background. Close your eyes, visualize it from memory. You might try to ‘step into’ the card, walk around, talk to the figures.
Tarot symbols hit your subconscious directly. That’s the intuitive psychic spark. Your unconscious spots what your conscious mind misses. Get readings from others if you can. It shows you the process from the receiver’s side.
Also learning where your psychic ability is is just the start. After that, the real work starts, and that means developing your psychic ability. You build it like a muscle, not some gift like you see in the movies.
First of all, you don’t need to be psychic to read tarot. You can read purely through interpretation: symbols and their meanings, plus how they interact in a spread. Some of the best readers do it that way and it’s exactly why anyone can read the Tarot. Democratised insight and intuition! Yay!
But if you are seeing signs or maybe you just want to develop a practice outside of the cards, then there are things you can do, but they’ll all take a lot of work. There’s nobody (and I do mean nobody in my experience) who just wakes up one day able to do all the crazy things you see on TV.
It all takes work and effort. Sometimes years of work.
If you already practice with the Tarot, I would keep doing that, and your psychic gifts will follow. Chance practice, not external factors. Just let them show up since you’ve already put work into reading the cards you don’t want to start from zero again. You’ll find it a lot easier to use other tools later if you choose to but don’t keep jumping from idea to idea.
Don’t chase the psychic side. Chase practice.
Started at literal zero too, like hoping for powers the way kids dream of telekinesis, but nothing. Took me ages (too long) to understand that intuition is like a muscle and needs to be worked. Trained. Tried Reiki after; others got visions, I just felt arm warmth. Super “gifted,” right?
Kept going: Akashic records course, tons of practice, consistent even when zilch happened (most days) and now I would use the Tarot for the same thing with better results. Now I’ve got clair-knowing, feel energies, pull specifics in readings. Not as intense as some here, but it’s growing.
You can learn from zero. Stubbornness beats talent but it does take time and your journey probably won’t develop as you expect it to.
‘The Psychic Pathway’ by Sonia Choquette. That’s where I’d start.
Grab that book and go from there.
