"JUMPER" TAROT CARDS

"JUMPER" TAROT CARDS

What is a “jumping card”?  It’s a card that comes loose out of the deck and separates itself from the deck  during shuffling.  Do you just say, “Oh well...” and reinsert the card into the deck, or do you use the card as part of the reading?  Be aware, there may be more than one escapee!

Now that you know what a “jumper card” is, how do you use one?  Biddy Tarot in the blog on jumping tarot cards (www.biddytarot.com/jumping-tarot-cards/) says, “First ask your client what they were thinking about at the exact moment the card fell from the pack.”  She recommends putting the jumping card back in the deck and see if the jumper reappears. Should it show up, it might indicate a really important issue.  If not, it may be an issue that hasn’t been addressed yet.

Does a jumping card have to mean anything at all, and if it does, how do you incorporate it into the reading?  You can use it as the first card or significator of the spread.  There’s the option to put it back in the deck and ignore that it never fell out.  

Anna Burroughs Cook in her blog “What Falls to the Floor” (tarotdynamicsannacook.blogspot.com/p/what-falls-to-the-floor.html) says that “I tell the client it is something to pay attention to and we’ll discuss it before the reading.”  

When a card jumps for me, I look at its suit to see what level the client is being affected on:  wands-career, creativity, sexuality; cups-emotions; swords-thoughts and communications; and pentacles-physical body, possessions.  The wonderful thing about tarot reading is that there are no fast and hard ways to do things.  Given the discussion above, just find a method and experiment to see what works for you and feels right.