At the risk of being annoying, can I ask how you use Tarot for self-reflection? I used to really like it but stopped doing it as I started to be less comfortable with the idea of "I'm talking to spirits/a higher guidance/the universe". Maybe talking to a higher self? I don't know what interpretation I could use and I was wondering what you use.
You know the rubber ducky method? Where programmers keep a rubber ducky by their computer, and if they get stuck on something, they explain their problem to the duck until they figure it out?
The rubber duckie itself is not listening. The duck has no special properties or innate power. It's just a focal point the programmer can use to slow down and break up their struggle into simpler terms that they wouldn't articulate the same way internally.
Tarot cards, rune stones, whatever- I use them lil sumbitches like that. Just different ways of breaking down my life and my problems in a way I wouldn't normally do, so that I can sit back and actually think instead of letting my lazy wet meat computer skip around from step A to step W just 'cause it's faster.
I'm not personally talking to a higher power. I'm talking to *myself*, and inventing the other half of the conversation in a way that makes me feel like someone smarter is guiding the questions
