Tarot Spell to Help Develop Psychism

From Tarot Spells, by Janina Renée

There is a spell to help you develop extrasensory perception and open up channels of higher awareness. The awakening of psychic abilities will give you personal guidance, comfort you with the assurance of spiritual existence, and enable you to see and explore the fabric of the universe.

This layout takes the shape of a crown. As a crown sits atop the head, it symbolizes expanded consciousness, awareness outside the senses, and glory in knowledge.

The Star represents inspiration and guidance from supernatural and cosmic forces. It complements and gives power to the High Priestess, the card of focusing the mind, developing intuition, and listening to inner voices. The Hermit stands for the revelation and interpretation of knowledge. It is used here to aid your understanding of the dreams, visions, and intuitions that will come to you.

As a necessary accessory for this spell, have a candle that will be placed just a few inches beyond the High Priestess card. (Do not light this candle until told to do so.) Plan to lay the cards out on a table where you can pull up a comfortable chair, so you can be at ease while you do the meditations and visualizations. If you wish to use other accessories for this spell, choose additional candles, or flowers, crystals, and gemstones, and cloth (in shades or combinations of white for concentration of divine light and pure psychic energy, blue for looking inward, and/or purple for psychic experience and spirituality) upon which to lay the cards.

It is best to perform this spell either very early in the morning or late in the evening when the world is quiet and you are unlikely to be disturbed. It is good to take a lustral bath beforehand and to be dressed magically. For maximum benefit, perform this spell or a shortened version of this spell every day, at the same hour each time.

To perform this spell, you may combine it with an improvised ritual of your own, or just proceed by laying out the cards and doing the following meditation, visualization, and affirmation.

Meditation and Visualization
When ready, light the candle that has been set aside for this purpose. For a duration of between thirty seconds to three minutes, focus on the candle flame, putting everything else out of your mind. For a time between thirty seconds to three minutes, close your eyes and hold the image of the flame in your mind.

After you are through concentrating on the flame, set the Star in place. For a few moments, visualize yourself walking alongside a lake under a star-filled sky. From time to time you pause to dip your feet in the water. Feel the coolness and pleasantness of the water as it laps around your feet. Feel that you are at one with the lake and the land and the stars that glow with ever-increasing intensity in the sky above you. Then, spread your arms outward (both in visualization and in actuality) and say aloud: