Using Evocation to Power Up Your Tarot Readings

I’ve been reading Aidan Wachter’s Six Ways: Approaches and Entries for Practical Magic, and his approach to invocation and evocation has blown my mind. He points out that you can use invocation/evocation to call up “a quality, an idea, a perspective,” new ways of seeing things that would help you remove your blindspots.

What if, I thought, I could use a spell to evoke new perspectives to work with in Tarot readings?

I had to try it.

I took the spell he included in the book (page 18), and I rewrote it slightly. Then I performed the ritual to evoke the powers of Sovereignty. Then I listened. Almost immediately, I heard that I should use a particular oracle deck, and I proceeded to have one of the most informative divination sessions I’ve had in ten years.

The powers of Sovereignty I reached reminded me right away of my sun sign, Taurus, at its best. This was surprising to me because, when I think of spirits of sovereignty, I immediately think of the Morrigan, who is not especially taurean.

I asked what their sovereignty is like, and they said that it’s the sovereignty of simple, humble things. The sovereignty that makes the little brown wren the king of birds.

I asked what I could learn from them, and they said, “The secret of being generous without being depleted.”

I asked them how they could teach me this, and they reminded me of the ways I have changed my practices because of other people’s opinions of the guiding spirits I was working with.

After the reading, I reestablished contact with those spirits, and I have found that reclaiming those relationships—and, more importantly, reclaiming my simple, basic right to have sovereignty over who I have relationships with—has, indeed, given me more power than I had before.

I have now done this spell twice with two different types of powers, and I have been extremely impressed with the results both times.

I encourage you, if you haven’t already, to check out Six Ways by Aidan Wachter. I am only halfway through, as of this writing, and I am already recommending it, which is some of the highest praise I can give.

This post originally appeared on adapembroke.com.