Have you ever felt like this?
I’m a pretty darned seasoned Tarot reader, but I still have those moments! Some days, the cards just make no sense at all.
However, experience has taught me that if I’m struggling to read the cards, there’s nothing wrong with me OR the cards! To get out of the gibberish funk, I’ve listed my favorite approaches below. I’ve never not had at least one of them work. If you’re finding that you’re having a Gibberish-Tarot time, give them a try and you’ll be reading like your old self again.
But first…
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So Mote That Con 2025
A Virtual Conference on Living as a Witch in Today’s World
October 18-19, 2025
The Magick. The wisdom. The shenanigans…and one HELL of a line-up!
Keynote Mara Wilson will be chatting with us about her own Magick of the movies as well as her own spiritual journey in a live Q&A.
Other presenters and workshops include:
Mychal Bryan: The New Western Medical Astrology
Rossá Crean: Chromatic Currents
J. Allen Cross: Threshold Magic
Morgan Daimler: Fairies and Witches
Mónica Divane: Decolonizing Your Magick
Dawn Aurora Hunt: Morning Ritual
Kanani Soleil: Witchcraft In Suburbia
Hilary Whitmore: Sound Cleansing
And me! Courtney Weber: The Dangerous Goddess
Full bios and workshop descriptions
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Three things to do when the cards “talk gibberish”
1.) Deep Clean The Cards
Tarot cards get tired. Especially if you’ve been reading for lots of people other than yourself, restore them to “Factory Settings” by arranging them all in order (Major Arcana: 0-21, sort Minor Arcana into their separate suits and then arrange 1-10 and Page-King). Do a smoke cleanse using rosemary, bay leaves, or a combination and waft that smoke around the cards. If the timing is right, set them on a window sill on a Full Moon night to charge them up again. Then, shuffle and lay out as you normally would. Boom! There you go!
2.) Take A Break
YOU might be the tired one! Is it possible you’re using the cards TOO much? Are you checking in on the same issue every day? Are you asking the same question in multiple ways during a session? Think of how a word (any word) starts to sound like gibberish if you say it too many times. Tarot readings are the same. Check in on a different question, or even take a break from Tarot all together for a while.
3.) Read, Record, And Review Later
My most prophetic Tarot readings made NO sense at the time. But I read anyway, recorded what the cards said by writing it down (video is fine, too), and reviewed the readings at a later date. My mind was blown SO many times by the cards picking up on things that I had no idea were coming, or insights into a situation that I couldn’t have understood at the time. If your cards are speaking “gibberish,” they may be telling you more truths than you can are ready or able to see.
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