There are different levels of knowing.
There are the things you know – the hard data, the objective provable stuff.
There are beliefs, which are not much more than thoughts, electrons and neurochemicals bouncing around in your brain or, as Blue Man Group put it, “the hellawhack Shiznit that happens inside your brizzle.”
There are things that you know you don’t know. You might not be able to exactly fill in the gaps, but you can prepare for the possibilities, like guessing the shape of a jigsaw puzzle piece from the empty shape left by the pieces around it.
Then there are the real surprises in life, the stuff that you didn’t even know that you didn’t know.
Tarot, in its own way, can help with the unknowns. It can’t fill in the gaps or make exact predictions, but a reading or successive daily one card meditations can help you find the edges of that missing piece to the jigsaw puzzle. Tarot can help you learn about yourself and your situation and feel out those things that you know that you don’t know. This is where Tarot is at its stress relieving best. This is where Tarot helps you to make that action plan that eases anxiety.
But Tarot can surprise you, too. It can shine a light on the things you didn’t know that you didn’t know. It can spark a brainwave about something you never thought about before.
And sometimes Tarot is silent. Not every card on every day is helpful. The time might not be right. Perhaps it is better that we not know, because that would prompt an action that is harmful. Maybe, just maybe, not knowing something is the universe protecting us from ourselves.
You never know.
And sometimes that is ok.
Sage Sips / TaoCraft Tarot 