My friend is into tarot cards

Title says it, my friend is into tarot cards!

And honestly it's got me thinking about my own spirituality again. They were doing readings for our other friends, and I butted in a lot. I feel a little bad about it, but I don't like when people just read the definitions of the cards and then take everything as literal as possible.

I believe in tarot cards with the mindset of them being a tool for self reflection, a starting point for the person reading to give the readee guidance. Like if I pull the tower card, I could just go "oh chaos and bad things", or I could go "do you have something on your mind?" And then if they do, it's probably something chaotic and confusing for them, and I go "so this card is possibly related to that". From there you can pull other cards and say "you got this card, the literal mean is xyz, but it probably relates because of abc" because I find that helps people.

Anyway it's got me thinking about my own spirituality for a couple reasons. Main one is because when people hear my explanations for why I think anything esoteric, or supernatural, or anything along those lines works, they make an assumption that means I'm skeptical or something. Which isn't true at all, I think me and any other person who believes in tarot cards believe in it the same amount, I just have a different framework for it. 

Another thing I've been thinking about is the fact that I haven't been participating in my own spirituality lately. I used to give myself cartomancy readings all the time (to explain; cartomancy is like tarot cards but with a regular deck of playing cards), and I made spell jars and things like that. Each one had a reason why I thought it worked, and that was my framework for approaching the entire practice. But I haven't been doing that stuff lately and it's coincided with me being busy and therefore cutting out a lot of my personal enjoyment stuff (bouldering/exercise, certain art mediums, baking, this blog and my website) and I think I want to get back into all of it, but it always feels daunting. 

I think I'll start by giving myself readings again, I liked to think over big stuff when I could frame it within the meanings of cards. It helps me categorise it all for myself.