Harnessing Intuition in Business: Lessons from Tarot and Leadership

On the one hand, you may ask yourself, “Tarot and business? How do they even intersect?” Good question. After all, what do we know about the business? The world where logic, analytics, and decision-making rule. At the same time, tarot is a symbolic and 100% intuitive system associated with mysticism that has nothing to do with the precision and consistency of the business field. While it may seem impossible for many, the deck of tarot cards offers a bunch of lessons you can’t learn anywhere else and can easily apply in the corporate world.

So, what is it that cards tell us that we should keep in mind when running a big business? Are there any lessons that you can drag from your divination séances? Yes! Below we offer a list of things that cards help you learn and successfully infuse into your corporate routine.

See What Is Under the Surface

It’s when we do tarot readings that we learn to read between the lines. You pull a card and interpret its meaning(s) based on your or the querent’s situation, the cards next to the one you drew, and your personal intuitive impressions. When it comes to business, you can use your intuition to catch and synthesize different signals here and there, from the behavior of your potential partners and clients to market trends and team morale. Thus, you can anticipate all possible shifts before the research data or any numbers prove them. Just like during in-person or online tarot card readings, business owners use their intuition to detect all undercurrents and see the opportunities otherwise hidden or missed.

You Recognize Various Patterns

When dealing with tarot cards, you notice patterns, narratives, and themes from a card that may look absolutely random (but it’s not!). The same can be done in the world of big business! Just like in tarot reading, business readers can notice typical habits of clients, market cycles, or the dynamics inside the system. Thanks to the tarot reading experience, you don’t focus on isolated data only. Instead, you learn to look more broadly at your work.

You Get More Comfortable with Uncertainty in Business

If you’re in tarot, you know that no such thing as 100% certainty exists. Exactly the same happens in the world of entrepreneurship. No business owner can predict all outcomes. Thanks to tarot practices, you learn to embrace the fact that life can be ambiguous and deal with the unknown. As a result, you get more comfortable with uncertain aspects of business and make the right decisions even when things aren’t clear. Reckless, you think? Absolutely not. It is about learning to trust your instincts even when you don’t have all the fragments of the puzzle.

Learn to Reflect

A lot of entrepreneurs tend to rush from task to task without taking a break or pause to think, reflect, and process their thoughts and ideas. Tarot can help! Not only do reading séances encourage you to reflect (about today, tomorrow, and yesterday), but they also help you make tarot-inspired reflections part of your business routine. Here’s what you can do (using your tarot experience as an example):

• Start journaling every week to put down all the lessons, wins, losses, etc.
• Before an important meeting, draw a card to see what this day is about to bring.
• Ask intuitive questions like “What is it that I haven’t noticed yet?” or “Do I need to release something? If yes, what is it?”

This simple habit of intentional reflection that comes from your tarot readings is a great way to foster wisdom.

Learn to Clarify Things Through Questions

As you guessed by now, tarot is not just about fortune-telling (or not at all!). It’s about asking the right questions to get clear answers. You learn to do that during tarot consultations and, as a result, you do the same in the business niche, where questions shape your strategies. Due to your sacred readings, you ask the right questions in business deals:

• What am I supposed to deal with?
• What is the deeper lesson of this business deal?
• What would success look like if I chose this way to go?

Make sure to stick to this simple approach to deal with assumptions in your business kingdom to have meaningful clarity as part of all the processes.

Dos and Don'ts of Integrating Tarot Into Your Business Routine

You’re about to step into a transformative stage of your business using time-tested means such as tarot. However, to use it, the ingredients like respect for logic and intuition, and thoughtfulness are a must. Check out some of the main key dos and don'ts to keep your practice effective.

Here are the things we recommend to include in your business-themed reading routine:

• Use cards as a reflection tool before you make important business decisions;
• Have a ritual like a new moon spread or weekly pull before participating in important meetings;
• Mix tarot with strategy (use both your intuition and research data with critical thinking);
• Keep things private until you feel like you are 100% confident to tell your co-workers about it (after all, tarot readings are something meaningful to you, not a part of performance)

But make sure you...

• Don’t think tarot is a magic wand (it’s a tool for guidance!);
• Don’t make tarot part of every decision that you make (use cards only when you feel called);
• Don’t ignore red flags (if any) if you pull cards and do not like the messages from the spirits (do not redraw!);
• Don’t make decisions for people around you (it’s your personal tool);
• Don’t forget about logic and analytical thinking (things like planning, research, and data are crucial parts of any business!).

The Truth? Tarot Is a Tool, Not Magic!

While for most users, tarot cards seem to come from the world of mysticism, the true power of the deck is hidden in an absolutely different part. It can be found in the ability of tarot to boost your awareness and help you use your inner compass properly. When you learn to deal with all the elements of a sacred deck (symbolism, archetypes, patterns, reflections, etc.), you, as a business professional, will have an opportunity to finally have a deeper trust in your intuition.

And as a result, you make yourself better (wiser!) decisions. Of course, you are not going to become a better business expert using cards. However, you will learn to read between the lines, understand the decisions you tend to make, and listen to your inner self. That is enough to make all the difference!