✨ Each tarot card can have several meanings, which can lead to very different interpretations of the same card. The High Priestess, for example, can mean trusting your intuition, turning inwards, keeping still, or keeping an important secret.

How to choose the best meaning, in order to make the most accurate interpretation of the card? 

You need to take into account:

1️⃣ the question asked; 

2️⃣ the position of the card in the spread (past? present? future? self? other?);

3️⃣ the other cards in the spread, so that you can interpret it taking into account the spread as a whole. 

After you take these three elements into consideration, then trust your intuition to choose the most suitable meaning! 

For example: once, I drew a High Priestess followed by the 3 of Swords in a spread about a relationship. It seemed evident that keeping secrets was going to cause some major heartbreak – the High Priestess, in this case, had little to do with turning inwards.

The same occurs when court cards appear (Page, Knight, Queen and King). To many tarot readers – and that includes me – they are more difficult to interpret because they can be analyzed from three different angles. 

They can represent:

1️⃣ someone in your life with the characteristics of the card;

2️⃣ you; 

3️⃣ an event with characteristics of the card. 

How to choose then? See the preceding steps and, in the end, follow your intuition! 

As the saying goes, intuition is like a muscle – the more we use it, the stronger it gets!

At first, you will probably have to think before choosing each meaning, often referring to books and your notes. Over time, you will notice that the choice of the meaning of each card will go beyond the rational thoughts and will become more and more automatic and intuitive for you.

🏞 Image credit: “2 – The High Priestess”, Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith in 1909.