How To Add Some Magic To Your Self-Care Routine This Witchy Season

Here's what you need to know about how you can actually use tarot cards to improve your mental health.

First, it’s important to establish what you’re using the cards for. I like to use cards to tap into my own intuition- aka it usually helps me reaffirm things that I already know. Having a regular card pulling practice has helped me learn how to trust myself and be sooo much more confident in my decision making skills.

I also like to use it to refocus and retrain my brain. According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are negative and 95% are repetitive thoughts. Yikes. Pulling a card during meditation can create new neural pathways. Breaking out of patterns and the norm is so important. I think that’s why a lot of people are turning to oracle decks as well, because they are a break from the patterns, they’re a new tool to access information that makes the brain create new neural pathways.