If you’re a highly sensitive person, you may have struggled with your gifts and needs.
Maybe you you’ve been told you’re “too sensitive,” “too emotional,” “to much,” and more. You may experience overwhelm, anxiety, and exhaustion more easily than others.
But you also likely have strong inner guidance, an ability to easily understand others, the ability to create strong connections with others, and several other talents.
As a highly sensitive person myself, I know all about the blessings and curses these gifts can bring.
I’ve also found tarot to be a pretty incredible tool to help guide me in my intuitive journey, and better support my highly sensitive needs.
Now, if you’re new to this site, I should mention that I believe in using tarot as a tool for action and empowerment. So, I’m not here to ask the cards a question to dictate my fate or if something is going to happen for me.
Instead, I use the cards to help me get better in touch with the actions I can take to create the reality I want to be living in.
So with that in mind, here are 7 ways you can use tarot to support your highly sensitive journey!
Connect with deeper with your intuition
Highly sensitive people are more naturally inclined to have a strong intuition. But sometimes, living in a logic-based world, we can be less likely to trust our intuition.
This is especially true if we’ve been told that we’re “too sensitive” or something similar. This can lead us to experience a lack of self-trust, which can have us dismissing our intuition.
Tarot can help you reconnect with your own strong intuition and intuitive guidance. In this case, any question you ask can help this experience. You’ll be able to see what comes up for you when cards come out and your intuition will tell you how they apply to you.
However, you can also take a more targeted approach and ask the cards specifically what you can do to trust and reconnect with your intuition.
Some questions you might ask include:
- How can I learn to better trust my intuition?
- How can I connect more deeply to my intuition?
- What’s blocking me from trusting and connecting deeply with my intuition?
Get in touch with yourself
If you’re a highly sensitive person, you’re uncommon. And you live in a world where gifts like ours are often seen as weaknesses.
They’re not. However, they do require a different level of care and understanding. And before other people in your life can understand you and what you need, you have to understand you and what you need.
Tarot can help with this! If you research any of these terms, you will find tips and guidelines for navigating these experiences. However, it’s not a one-size-fits-all journey.
Tarot has the power to help you get in touch with your unique gifts and talents and uncover what your strengths truly are, what you need, and the most joyful path forward.
Some questions you might ask include:
- What’s my greatest strength as a highly sensitive person?
- What do I need to better understand about myself as a highly sensitive person?
- What do I need to heal as a result of my highly sensitive experience?
Turn down the volume on the world
The world is loud these days! And when you’re highly sensitive, it feels even louder!
We are hardwired to pick up subtleties. Lights are brighter, sounds are louder, crowds are more claustrophobic.
Plus, our ability to pick up on energy levels means cruelty cuts deeper (even if it’s not directed at us), other people’s expectations and emotions can weigh us down, and the world can be an all around exhausting place to live in.
Navigating all of that can be a lot! It can also make it harder for us to hear ourselves and what we really need. Luckily, tarot can help us turn the volume down on on the world and uncover what we’re really thinking and feeling about a situation.
Some questions you might ask include:
- What might help me better understand what I think or feel about this situation?
- How can gain clarity on my own thoughts and feelings?
- How can I turn down the volume on the world and stay more grounded in myself?
Gain life/lifestyle guidance
If you’re highly sensitive, the best life and lifestyle for you is going to look a hell of a lot different that what society believes life should look like.
It can sometimes be hard to break free from the societal expectations.
You may have people who tell you it’s a bad idea. You may feel like there’s something wrong with you because you can’t “be normal.” Or you may know you need to blaze a different trail, but have no idea what would be best for you.
And these are just a few examples. Your life and lifestyle struggles may be different.
The point is, tarot can totally help you sort out what you need and don’t need in your life. It can help you find the guidance and confidence you need to live the life that’s best suited for you, even if that life doesn’t look like everybody else’s.
Some questions you might ask include:
- What lifestyle changes would be most helpful to me as a highly sensitive person?
- What would be the best career choice I could make with my highly sensitive gifts in mind?
- What’s the most impactful change I can make in my life to be more aligned with my highly sensitive gifts and needs?
Find the validation and clarity you need
Like we’ve touched on periodically throughout this post, people with our gifts and talents are naturally more sensitive than the average person. And it’s something a lot of us have been shit for on as a result.
We get called “too sensitive,” “too emotional,” “too much,” and so much more!
The people saying these things may not be meaning to harm us, they simply may not understand that our experience is very different from their own. But that doesn’t mean these phrases don’t do some real damage.
I’ve found tarot to be a pretty powerful combatant to these types of attacks and beliefs. Tarot can allow you to be seen for your gifts and talents, not shamed for them.
And once you receive the validation from the universe, it’s a hell of a lot easier to own your experience, set aside harsh or unfair criticism, and live your life from a place of confidence and power.
Some questions you might ask include:
- Why does my highly sensitive experience make me unique?
- How can I use these intense feelings and sensitivities as a strength?
- How can I find my power in my highly sensitive experience?
Uncover your superpowers
I fully believe everyone has superpowers. These are skills and talents that come to us so naturally that it feels almost instinctive in a way that makes us unique.
For some people it’s math, science, or technology. For others, it’s engineering or a heightened intelligence.
For others of us, it’s our highly sensitive nature.
We can often accurately predict outcomes, comfort people who are suffering, foresee problems and prevent them from occurring, and we’re often wildly creative.
There are plenty of other gifts and talents that comes with being highly sensitive. And while we all may have similar enough experience to be able to relate and connect with each other, our exact strengths and superpowers are going to vary.
Luckily tarot can help you uncover what your unique superpower and greatest strength are. You can use the cards to shine light on your superpower(s) and even seek guidance on how you can use these strengths more often in your life.
Some questions you might ask include:
- What are my gifts and talents as a highly sensitive person?
- What is my greatest strength as a highly sensitive person?
- What’s my superpower as a highly sensitive person and how can I use it more regularly in my life?
Gain self-care guidance
Like we’ve mentioned, the world can be a harsh and draining place for a highly sensitive person.
We don’t even need something bad to happen for us to find our energy zapped. Sometimes, just living in the world is enough to suck us dry.
Self-care is important for anyone, but highly sensitive people often need more unique self-care at much more regular intervals.
Tarot can help you tap into your own inner wisdom and uncover exactly what kind of self-care you need on a regular basis to keep you and your gifts sharp.
It can also help you get to the bottom of the self-care you need most immediately, or suggest a type of self-care you might consider introducing to your life.
This can be true if you know right now that you need something for yourself, but don’t know what. Or if you notice a recurring pattern in your life, but aren’t sure how to alleviate it.
Some questions you might ask include:
- What self-care would be most helpful to me as a highly sensitive person?
- What self-care would help me calm my [intense feeling]?
- What self-care do I need most right now as a highly sensitive person?
Want to see what a tarot reading can do for you and your highly sensitive gifts?
If you’ve made this far and are wondering how a tarot reading can help you and your highly sensitive gifts, you’re in luck!
Foreshadow Intuitive Tarot offers a Guidance for Highly Sensitive People Reading, designed to give you the guidance and empowerment you need to trust your gifts and live your life with confidence!
This reading can be customized to meet you where your at in your highly sensitive journey. It can also be structured to help you gain the insights and guidance you need as you navigate your unique experience.
For more on my Tarot philosophy, you can can check out the About page.
If you’d like to know even more about me, my own highly sensitive experience, and how tarot supported me, you can read my story here.
How have your intuitive gifts enhanced your life? What aspects of this experience have you struggled with? Tell me about it in the comments!
