What I’m about to say is the most obvious thing in the world, and has been said in pretty well every how-to book about Tarot reading you can find, but I’m going to say it again anyway …
… if you’re trying to learn how to read Tarot cards, it’s a really, really good idea to keep a Tarot journal as you go.
Tarot Journals are especially good for:
•recording readings you do for yourself, and others – with notes on any new connections you may have observed during those readings
•building your own personal list of card descriptions and key words
•pictures and/or doodles of cards you pull
•pictures and/or doodles of cards you make up
•spreads you come up with and/or want to remember
•notes from Tarot books or podcasts you might be listening to
•colour charts, astrological, and kabbalistic associations, gemstones, talismans, animal totems, runic connections, iChing coin tosses … whatever it is that you’re doing or thinking at the moment that connects to your Tarot journey
You don’t have to keep writing in this journal forever (though maybe you’ll want to), but Tarot journalling is definitely one of the most important self-training tools you can have. At least it was (and still is) for me.