How to Reclaim Your Intuition with Soul Tarot

by Ana-Maria Bonner and Lindsay Mack

Photo of Tarot for the Wild Soul and Soul Tarot

The compassionate yet practical guide to soul-nourishing tarot that you’ve been looking for is here! Intuitive Tarot teacher Lindsay Mack’s signature Soul Tarot method invites us to see the cards as helpful allies and anchors for the present moment, rather than a forecast of the future.

At the heart of Soul Tarot are three guiding principles:

We honor each card as an invitation for exploration of the present, not necessarily as a sign of what will be or might happen in the future.
We consider each card that we pull as helpful medicine for our continued growth, not a predictive statement about things to come.
There are no “good” or “bad” cards in the Tarot. All of the cards bring medicine.

Whether you’re navigating challenging times, seeking personal clarity, or looking for a deeper connection with the cards, Lindsay’s inspiring book and deck set offers insight, empathy, and empowerment.

Enjoy this excerpt from Chapter 5 of Tarot for the Wild Soul: A Trauma-Informed Approach for Growth, Healing, and Grounding in the Present Moment. Plus take a sneak peek at the art of The High Priestess tarot card from the companion Soul Tarot: A Deck and Guidebook for Healing and Self-Discovery.

Looking for a more immersive experience? Listen to the excerpt, as read by Lindsay Mack for the audiobook edition of Tarot for the Wild Soul: A Trauma-Informed Approach for Growth, Healing, and Grounding in the Present Moment.

The Moon Within: Tarot Cards for Intuitive Reclamation

In case no one has told you, you are already intuitive. You will always have your own deep, inexorable connection with your inner voice, the channel and cord that tethers and binds you to all things otherworldly.

No one can give you this because you’ve never been separate from it. There is no certification course, no title, no training, no act of bestowing that can grant you access to what you have a birthright to. Other folks can help us along the way in our lifelong process of reclaiming and trusting this part of ourselves, but they cannot give us a key to unlock the door.

Your intuition—and everything that flows to you from that wellspring—knows you. It chooses you, loves you, and witnesses you.

Reclaiming our intuition is a bit like a rewilding process. When we are born, the ecosystem of our intuition is perfectly harmonious and thoroughly wild. And essentially from the day of our birth, most of us are inundated with invitations—however subtle and well-intentioned they might be—to deny our knowing, go against our body’s wisdom, push away our feelings, and swallow our truths in place of peacekeeping.

Reclaiming and rewilding our intuition doesn’t mean that we must add a lot back into our inner landscape. We don’t need a ton of bells and whistles. All we need to do is remove things that are of active detriment to the growth and flourishing of this inner garden, and our intuition will begin to thrive again.

When we want to reclaim our intuition, to call upon and work with the cyclical ocean within each of us, we will inevitably come face to face with the Tarot cards that [represent this]: The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, Queen of Wands, Knight of Swords, and The Twos.

Intuitive Homecoming with The High Priestess

The High Priestess forms the foundation for the lifelong work of intuitive reclamation. This card wants us to understand that we’re intuitive by virtue of simply being alive and helps us to know that intuition is allowed to look, feel, and show up in beautifully bespoke ways. We are all intuitive, and intuition is meant to shine through each of us in unique capacities.

This card, despite its reputation, isn’t some out-of-reach figure we must journey to find, or a level of infinite wisdom to attain. The High Priestess is as present and within reach as salt, stone, and soil. They can be fabulous and colorful, or deeply subtle, almost invisible. As Mary Oliver wisely expressed in her poem “Praying,” meaning can be found in something as simple or seemingly mundane as a weed or small stone.

Intuition doesn’t have to be fancy or out of reach, and The High Priestess can be a reminder of that.

It can be helpful to associate The High Priestess (and by extension, our intuition) with the ocean and the Moon because, like The High Priestess, both change wildly through the days and months, but their essence always remains steady and present. The Moon waxes and wanes, ebbs and flows, cycles through phases and astrological signs. There might be times when we cannot see the Moon, but we know it’s there. The same is true with our intuition.

The first step to working with The High Priestess is to go into the proverbial cave and deeply sense into your own lunar, psychic landscape: What intuitive inner phase do you feel that you’re transiting through right now?

We can and often do experience “winters” with our intuition, times when it doesn’t feel like we can perceive anything, or times when we don’t want to perceive. We can also experience “summers” with our intuition: wildly creative periods when it can feel like we’re practically running to the page, to the canvas, or to a quiet place to channel down whatever it is that’s flowing through us before it goes back to the ether. Intuition can drive us to take strong, immediate action, and it can call us into stillness and surrender. Holding a space for the spectrum of what intuition can be is a core aspect of intuitive rewilding.

Intuition is very, very spiralic. It is consistent and steadfast, yet simultaneously ever-changing. It never leaves us and is always available to us, but it isn’t necessarily going to present the same way every time we experience it. Receiving intuitive guidance during an emergency, or while we’re in the hospital, or when we’re in any other unique circumstance, likely won’t be the same as a moment when we’re at ease and in familiar surroundings. Understanding this can help us make peace with both our intuition and The High Priestess.

When The High Priestess card shows up in a reading, it invites us to remember that we have access to the deep wellspring of wisdom within us (despite how it might often feel), and a warm, loving, spacious coterie of Spirit Helpers who have our back no matter what. Even if we cannot feel or perceive them, they are always with us.

What helps you to feel connected with yourself in this way? What practices help quiet your mind and turn the volume up on your inner voice, the Moon within you?

The High Priestess Reversed

Sometimes when The High Priestess shows up reversed, it can be a gentle nudge to give ourselves a little break around trying to tune in for an answer, especially when it feels like we’re straining to receive one. Clarity isn’t always available to us for a myriad of reasons, and I have seen it be very helpful to take a break when we hit this kind of wall—go read a book, go out to dinner, etc. Giving ourselves that space is often the very thing we need to come to that desired place of connection with our intuition.

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Pair the book with the companion deck as you work your way through the Soul Tarot method—both available wherever books are sold.

Tarot for the Wild Soul

by Lindsay Mack

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Soul Tarot

by Lindsay Mack, Illustrated by Chelsea Granger

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