Holistic Tarot – Meditate on Present Energy, Design Your Future
Do you find yourself asking the same questions over and over again of your Tarot Card Deck? If so, then welcome to the practice of Holistic Tarot. Why do this when you can use Tarot Analytics instead? Discover an approach that helps you explore the workings of your inner mind and present-life energy, rather than relying on unpredictable future patterns that do not empower you.
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Holistic Tarot: Meditate on Present Energy, Design Your Future
What Is Holistic Tarot?
In Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth, author Benebell Wen offers a guided tour through the history of Tarot and its many applications.
But this isn’t your typical Tarot book.
Unlike many practitioners, Wen approaches Tarot from a modern, integrative perspective—what she calls “Tarot Analytics.” Her key insight challenges one of the most common assumptions about the cards:
“Tarot should not be used to predict the future.”
— Benebell Wen
Instead, she suggests using Tarot as a tool for self-analysis and conscious awareness—a mirror for the psyche rather than a crystal ball.
“I do not support fortune-telling, and I do not believe in future-telling.
My approach to Tarot is not predictive—it is analytic.
The signs and symbols of the cards facilitate the retrieval of information from the unconscious and bring it to the forefront of the conscious mind.
This helps us to form creative solutions, view a problem from a new angle, or find the breakthrough that allows us to move forward.
I call it Tarot Analytics.”
— Benebell Wen
Tarot Has Many Forms — Holistic Tarot Is More Helpful
I’ve always been drawn to Tarot, its symbolism, its depth, and its ability to act as a reflective tool.
My first deck was Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot, a richly complex set that taught me early on how energy seems to move through the cards. I was amazed to see how certain cards would recur across multiple readings, as if they were insisting on being heard.
For that reason, I learned not to ask the same question over and over again; the cards, it seems, have their own rhythm.
In more recent years, I’ve also enjoyed working with Angel Cards, particularly those by Doreen Virtue. Her decks carry a gentler, more luminous energy that resonates deeply with many people.
If you enjoy her style, you might also appreciate my review of her Life Purpose Cards.
Good Tarot is About Energy Patterns, Not Predictions
So, how do we use Tarot, or Holistic Tarot, to navigate our personal energy or qi?
Wen’s chapter on the Theory of Qi helped me see this more clearly. It also validated something I’ve always known about myself: I’m not comfortable giving predictive or psychic readings.
How could I possibly tell someone what their future holds? Occasionally, I receive intuitive flashes or premonitions, but they arrive in unpredictable, symbolic ways, hardly a reliable framework for guidance.
That’s why I find Akashic Records readings so powerful. They invite us to journey inward, to understand our life path more deeply, and to make empowered decisions from that place of inner knowing.
Tarot can function in much the same way.
When we use it to reflect our current energetic state, it becomes a tool for insight and healing, not just prediction.
A Brief History of Tarot
If you’re a Tarot beginner or have a few decks already, Wen’s Holistic Tarot offers a beautifully researched foundation.
She explores the origins of Tarot, the psychological theories that inform its practice, and the mechanics of readings—how and why the cards seem to work.
From this lens, Tarot spreads act as mirrors for the unconscious, illuminating hidden motivations and energy patterns.
Instead of dictating the future, they help us see the present more clearly, and from that awareness, the future begins to take shape.
You’ll also find practical sections that help you:
- Choose a Tarot deck that resonates with you
- Cleanse and energize your cards
- Understand the Major and Minor Arcana
- Develop your own method for recording and interpreting readings.
A Thoughtfully Researched Guide
Tarot cards draw upon archetypes of the collective unconscious—timeless symbols and energetic patterns shared across cultures and generations.
Through practice, we learn to engage these archetypes not as external spirits or fortune-telling tools, but as mirrors of our own psyche and intuition.
In this way, Tarot becomes a practice of self-inquiry and awareness, helping us make better-informed decisions through the integration of mind, intuition, sense, and collective memory.
That’s the essence of Tarot Analytics: a bridge between intuitive insight and rational understanding.
Become Better-Informed through Holistic Tarot
Too often, Tarot is reduced to a quick entertainment or a “what’s going to happen next” kind of reading. But Wen—and many modern practitioners—invite us to use it differently.
Rather than outsourcing our power to imagined futures, we can use Tarot to inquire within, to map the energetic terrain of the present moment.
The most helpful readings I’ve done for myself are always the ones rooted in my current circumstances, the here and now. From that clarity, I can make choices that shape my future with awareness.
That’s far more empowering than chasing predictions or self-fulfilling prophecies.
Predictive readings can soothe us temporarily, but they rarely help us grow. Holistic Tarot, on the other hand, encourages us to dig deeper—to engage the cards as a living dialogue with our inner wisdom.
Tarot, at its best, isn’t about telling the future. It’s about remembering who we are now—and from that place, designing a future in alignment with our highest truth.
To learn more about Benebell Wen read her bio here.
Learn More About My Akashic Tarot Readings and Coaching
Working with the Akashic Records expands your connection to the Soul through your Higher Self — your intuitive aspect.
If you’re new to this work, I recommend starting with a Soul Star Reading.
If you’ve already had one, deepening your practice with the Akashic Tarot can take your intuition even further.
Being able to access your Akashic Records through the Akashic Tarot strengthens your connection with your Higher Self — and expands your intuition as a natural side effect.
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