How to Create a Tarot Essence

Perhaps you are familiar with Bach flower remedies or other flower/crystal essences. Did you know it is entirely possible to create your Tarot essence using the same principles? The Tarot essence harnesses the power of individual symbols and archetypes, making it easier for you to integrate this energy with mind-body-spirit. In this post, I show you how!

Before creating the essence, make sure you are using cards from a cleansed deck. Ideally, you should use a deck that you dedicate to healing work for creating your essences. Any type of deck is fine but it needs to be a deck that you have an emotional connection with. You also need to have a familiarity with the individual cards. The more you meditate with this deck, the more potent your healing work will be.

Three Steps to Creating a Tarot Essence

• The first method is to fill a glass with pure spring water (or filtered tap water) and place it directly over the card for a minimum of 15 minutes. Just 15 minutes is enough if you charge the essence in direct sunlight. Other conditions usually require a longer period of time – allow your intuition to guide you. You also use a pendulum to check if the essence is ready. Feel free to put a clear quartz crystal (or a crystal corresponding to the card energy) in the glass for programming at the same time.
• The other way is to place the tarot card in a glass (or jar) inside a bowl with spring water. Again, you need to let the water absorb the card energy for at least 15 minutes before drinking it. This method is ideal if you are creating an essence for more than one person.
• If you want to make an essence that lasts so that you can continue to take it regularly as a remedy without having to make a new batch every day, you need to make a ‘Mother tincture.’  You would use the first method and then add the essence to a dropper bottle. Fill the bottle with 1/3 either vodka, brandy or vinegar as a preservative. Shake well.
  
  From this mother tincture, you can then make up treatment bottles by filling 10 ml dropper bottles with a about a third of your favourite preservative, about two-thirds of spring water and top it up with a couple of drops from the Mother tincture. Shake and she’s ready to go. From a 10 ml bottle, you usually get a course of two weeks, if you take 2 drops (in water or directly under the tongue), three times daily.

Work with Lunar Phases

Pay attention to lunar phases when creating your remedy. The most potent essences are the ones we make on the night of the full moon, in a sign corresponding to the card. Leave the water to absorb the essence of the card overnight if at all possible. Certain lunar energy cards such as The Moon, The Queen of Cups and The High Priestess are best charged by moonlight. Again, allow your intuition to guide you.

Banish a card energy on a waning moon, in the corresponding astrological sign. I do not advise creating essences for banishing. It is better to burn (influence to banish in Water or Earth) or bury (influence to banish in Air or Fire) the card. Create your essences on a new, waxing or full moon.

Which Cards to Work With

Can all cards be used for essences? Yes, but please beware that if you have a really difficult relationship with a card, like some of the Swords cards, you need to be certain before imbibing the energy. It can certainly help you heal conditions associated with these card energies but do be prepared for a healing crisis.

If you are working with one of the more challenging cards, it would be a good idea to do it with someone. That way, you are not on your own in dealing with what comes up. Swords, for instance, is Air/Communication and very amenable to ‘talk therapy.’ It is when the energy is looping inside our minds that things tend to get bad.