5 Ways to Use a Single-Card Reading

In Episode 02 of The Shameless Wisdom Podcast with Natacha Guyot, PhD, we discuss 5 ways to use a single-card reading that can benefit your personal, professional, creative, and spiritual life! These tips are beginner-friendly and you can use them no matter whether you use tarot or oracle cards (or even other types of cards).

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Single card tarot pulls can get a bad reputation, and for no reason.  single card pulls, whether you use tarot, oracles, or Lenormand cards, are amazing options.

Whether you're just a beginner or you've been doing that for over 23 years, like I have.

Single card pulls do not mean you're lazy or a better reader of any kind, not at all.

Single card pulls are quick and simple and still extremely fruitful ways to use your cards and get insights when you need it.

We don't always have the time or the energy or even the desire to just do really big spreads.

And today I really want to explore five ways you can use single card pulls, whether you use tarot, oracle, or even learn hormone, or even playing cards.

These single card pulls are also a really cool way to deepen your intuition and deepen your understanding and your own interpretation of specific cards.

So let's explore the five ways that single card pulls can make a positive difference in your life.

One of the most common ways you can use a single card pull is to pull a card for the week or even a card for the day.

We often talk about daily card pulls, but doing that for the whole week can also be good.

You have two options to do that.

You can either do it at the beginning of your day or your week to set an intention. So, it gives you a general direction and a general way you want to be feeling during the whole day or the whole week.

But you can also do it at the end of the day or at the end of the week as an option to reflect on what has happened during that day or that week.

You can even do both.

You know, maybe some days you're going to want to do both or if you do that on a weekly basis, it can be interesting for you to start with an intention and then reflect maybe how has this intention come true throughout the week?

What other things have you learned?

What challenges have you encountered?

What celebration have you enjoyed?

Another way you can use single card pull is as a grounding ritual.

This could happen before you film videos, before you do an event, before you have a public speaking engagement, an important meeting, a client call, or maybe a creative endeavor, or a big task.

You know, these moments when it does feel good to have a pre-whatever that is, a ritual that helps you really be grounded, maybe you normally do that for breathing exercises or you have a really amazing kickass playlist, or maybe you could also incorporate a single card pull, maybe not for every of those events, but maybe in certain times when you need that extra boost of grounding and you can ask yourself what does this card reminds me of?

How does it apply to who I am, to what I want to accomplish, to the intention I want to set?

That's really a cool way to use single card pulls and also you could be using different decks for any of those five ways we're talking about.

So maybe you have a specific deck you're like pulling from for filming videos or maybe for creative projects or for speaking engagements, or maybe you mix and match, you know, whatever your mood calls for that day, which is completely cool as well.

Another way you can use single card pulls is as an icebreaker.

Now you're probably thinking, an icebreaker, what, I'm not just going to toss my cards, you know, as I'm just meeting somebody for the first time, especially in person, or even online, well, that depends.

I may carry at least one deck in my purse on a regular basis, but besides that, especially if you're a spiritual entrepreneur or if you use this type of cards, you know, for yourself or especially a part of your business, this may be something, you know, to bring up maybe during a small group meeting, if that includes online or maybe a client call that could be a way for you to share more, you know, about the work you do and also provide value right away to the person you're speaking with in a small, but meaningful ways.

Of course, one thing I will always say is make sure that the other person or persons are okay with that.

You do not want to just be pushing it onto people.

So just say, hey, would you be interested? Would you be okay if I pulled a card, you know, for a general message, we all need to hear now or for some guidance, you know, you could use or some inspiration you could use today or this week, you know, there are really ways you can brainstorm of how this could apply to conversations you have.

The fourth way you can use single card pulls is to choose a theme for your meditation or your journaling session.

If you pull a single card, you know, this can be like this starting point for a meditation.

You could be meditating on that card and what does it bring to you and just let yourself, you know, your mind, but also your soul can of wonder and, you know, see what comes up for you.

And similarly, you can also use it if you enjoy journaling and you're just like, I'm going to pull a card and then I'm going to journal on what this card means to me and how its message currently applies in my life.

Even if you're going to pull the same card multiple times over the years, you're probably going to have new insight and new applications every single time.

And also, you can do both.

You pick a card, you first meditate on it and then you journal about it or vice versa.

And finally, the fifth way you can use a single card pull can of revisits over things we talked about earlier in this video and we cease to use a single card as a creativity boost.

Whether it's an actively creative or artistic project or just something when you want to bring a little more creativity and out of the box thinking to pulling a single card can help you get unstuck.

So that's it for the five ways to use a single card pull, whether you use tarot, oracle, or Lenormand, or even playing cards.

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