Sounds like you’ve been able to use this technique to great effect. The more you use it, the better your connection to the Tarot will become.

What’s amazing is that every deck has a different feel. Right now I use the Deviant Moon and the Hanson-Roberts Deck. Although they’re both RWS-clone and they have the same divinatory meanings, the card from the other deck has a different story. It’s fun how you can actually put yourself in that image and be a part of it.

Thank you for sharing your experiences

I can relate to your feelings of ‘doubt’. Early on in my career I had a lot of doubt. Now, it’s very common for me to deal out some cards for a client and not really remember what any of the cards mean. In fact, this phenomena seems to have become greater the longer I read Tarot on a professional bases. I think this is a natural process – intuition, Elemental Dignities and free-association are what I use to help me ‘get into’ a reading.

Therefore, on the one hand, I am less clear about what individual Tarot cards mean (in a live reading), yet on the other hand, I’m more comfortable using my intuition.

Confidence is the key to being more comfortable with ’saying what you see’ – perhaps this is something that just occurs with time.

It is interesting over time though to see how thoughts about a card change, broaden and deepen. I know its not a tarot deck…but my little Faeries Oracle deck is almost like my family…LOL…I did a free association…one word with them a while back…and that one little word that I remember about each one sort of opens the door during a reading….and I can use it to go in all sorts of directions.