MagsStardustBlack
I'm so excited!! My daughter is 7 and a half and she has had her own deck since she was 3. I bought her Moon Garden so she would leave my deck collection be. She has used her deck ever since she got it. While she was very little she would look at the pretty pictures, then as she got a little bit bigger we would play Snap with her deck with the suits. Recently we have been playing Eye Spy with her deck and Moon Garden is perfect for this, tiny hidden bunnies and unicorns peeping round corners! She has such a bond with her deck, it is literally growing with her, from a place of pure innocence through a childs eyes and it will become more mature as she see's connections to more sophisticated themes as she gets older.
A few weeks ago she said she wanted to learn the card meanings and then last night she asked again. I was going to wait until she was 10 maybe but as she is keen i thought okay. So i asked her to organised her deck into suits and numbered correctly and to organise the majors in order of numbers to. She did a great job and she understands the uniform of a deck. She also totally mastered the roman numerals! I told her the very basic of the energy of the 4 suits and their seasonal alignment.
I bought her a tarot journal today and i plan to have her make a page for each card. What i want her to do is write a few key words, in her own vocabulary (how a child may see it) and then write a small paragraph of what she feels and thinks when she looks at the image (such as a little story).
I find this whole new adventure magical. And her little tarot journal will be so special, so appropriate for her whimsical imaginative age and a treasure she can always keep. I want to keep the learning fun and exciting for her.
Has anyone ever taught a child tarot? Have you any lovely ideas i may use to teach her?
A few weeks ago she said she wanted to learn the card meanings and then last night she asked again. I was going to wait until she was 10 maybe but as she is keen i thought okay. So i asked her to organised her deck into suits and numbered correctly and to organise the majors in order of numbers to. She did a great job and she understands the uniform of a deck. She also totally mastered the roman numerals! I told her the very basic of the energy of the 4 suits and their seasonal alignment.
I bought her a tarot journal today and i plan to have her make a page for each card. What i want her to do is write a few key words, in her own vocabulary (how a child may see it) and then write a small paragraph of what she feels and thinks when she looks at the image (such as a little story).
I find this whole new adventure magical. And her little tarot journal will be so special, so appropriate for her whimsical imaginative age and a treasure she can always keep. I want to keep the learning fun and exciting for her.
Has anyone ever taught a child tarot? Have you any lovely ideas i may use to teach her?