Tuesday Tarot: a gentle guide for beginner readers

Welcome back to my weekly tarot reading! This space. is meant for you to explore the art of intuitive reading perfect for curious and self-reflective souls

Jun 24, 2025

Whether you’re new to tarot or an experienced reader or simply looking for a sign to reconnect with your deck… then this space is for you.
Each week, I’ll share a spread I’ve pulled and include my personal anecdotes and what I’m reflecting from the reading. The goal of this series is not prediction. It’s to interact with the subconscious mind through visual clues.

Anchor cards:

Starting a typical 3-pull or 5-pull spread with an anchor card is a great grounding ritual to connect with the body before starting to venture into the subconscious exploration of intuitive card reading.

I decided to do this pull before a meeting with a friend that has been on my mind a lot lately. We are about to meet up for the first time after a one on one phone call where we openly named some emotional triggers. While the conversation was intentional and opened necessary doors it also left something lingering in my body.

Anchor cards are a place where I return to center. They hold the energetic tone of the reading like a lighthouse in the fog. They can guide me through the emotional layers of a spread when my mind get focused on the complexities or details of a body felt experience.

Whether I’m feeling uncertain or deeply curious… or both, pulling an anchor card is an invitation to let my body ground itself, take a moment to breath and let my intuition guide me.

This Week’s Spread:

During this pull, I focused on the moment of being on the call with her and the different emotional reactions that I experienced during the call. The feelings I’ve had after the call and the thoughts that have floated through my mind since then.

The cards responded and a splurge of cards jumped out at me. In moments like these I can’t help but think to myself: the cards have a lot to say today!.

Queen of Pentacles

This card echoed something I’ve been living into: what does it look like to tend to and care for my own emotional landscape before I tend to others.

It’s the reminder of a lesson that I’m learning that I can’t help others until I’ve helped myself first. I can’t give from an empty cup.

Visually, the queen sitting in her beautiful lush garden brings me joy. I admire how the roses above her are blooming and the landscape is vibrant with colors. Even the rabbit in the corner jumping through the sidelines is a reminder that life thrives in environments like this.

It’s a reminder to me that nurturing can be mutual. That kindness without boundaries is not kindness. It’s an act of abandoning myself.

10 of Pentacles

This card served as a reminder to notice and look where effort is shared and where it isn’t. Pentacles speak to resources and not just related to financial or monetary ones. It’s connected to deeper currencies like time, care, intentional energy and emotional presence.

I look at the old man, the child, and the couple in love evoke the cycles of life and relationship. In this moment, the card mirrored the reality that some connections evolve through growing pains, while others gently drift apart, each tending to different legacies.

The Dawning of the New (10 of Swords Spread) – Tarot Awakenings

Ten of Swords

When I pulled this card, it can be a shock at first sight. To see this man on the ground stabbed in the back it’s quick to jump to conclusion or assumptions about how you’ve been wronged.

Some read this card as a literal stab in the back and it can be.

But, when I saw this card I felt that it was more metaphorical. I saw in it the death of my ego or my victim-mindset. I saw the collapse of a version of me that once felt I had to abandon my feelings, my intuition, and my truth to keep other’s peace. There was a time I’d contort myself to be liked, to be safe, to meet others in a place that I did not want to go. And the resentment that followed when the conditions I set for others were not met.

But that version no longer fits.

The energy of this card was present in the phone call. The goal was to be clear and calm, but unwavering. I wasn’t willing to disappear into someone else’s comfort this time or to act in a way that didn’t feel fair to myself.

Strength & The High Priestess

These cards together are a lesson in grace under fire. Strength reminds me that truth doesn’t need to be loud to be powerful. The High Priestess reminds me that my body often knows before my mind catches up.

These two energies are reminding and encouraging me to stay grounded, stay intuitive, stay me.

Ace of Wand

This isn’t just a new beginning. It’s an inspired one.

The wand is a tool of creativity but also a source of inspiration. It’s a reminder that new perspectives or approaches can be visible to you if you chose to see it. This card carries the message: You don’t have to contort to connect. You just have to create from truth.

Whether that creation is a conversation, a boundary, a poem, or simply letting it be.

There was a time, not long ago, when I would have folded myself into any shape to keep someone comfortable. Now I can feel that discomfort and I am not willing to accept it.

I’m learning not to judge myself for noticing.
Not to apologize for needing mutual effort.
Not to silence the voice in my throat just because it trembles when it speaks.

This isn’t my villain era.

This is my voice era.
My reclamation era.
My self-trusting, ego-dismantling, inner-child-honoring era.

Thanks for being here. For reflecting. For witnessing.
I’ll see you next week. Bring your deck, your tea, and whatever you’re feeling.

We’ll keep reading, healing, and remembering together. ♡