The practice
One card, every morning. One line about it. One line in the evening about how the day went.
That is the whole thing. It takes ninety seconds.
Why it works
You meet the deck in context. Reading that the Four of Pentacles means "holding on" is abstract. Drawing it on a day you refuse to delegate something is not.
You build the feedback loop tarot otherwise lacks. Most readings are never checked against what happened. A daily log is checked automatically, every evening.
You learn the boring cards. Everyone knows The Tower. Almost nobody has a feel for the Six of Wands until they have drawn it on a day they got recognised for something.
Making it survive a real week
Keep it to two lines. The moment it takes ten minutes, it stops happening. The version that survives is the small one.
Do not skip cards you dislike. The whole value is in sitting with what you got.
Missing days is fine. Missing a week and abandoning the practice is not. Restart without treating the gap as a failure.
Do not add a second card. The constraint is doing the work.
What to expect
Weeks 1 to 3: you will look up almost every card. Normal. Weeks 4 to 8: recognition starts. You will know roughly half on sight. Weeks 9 to 12: you begin having reactions to cards before you have consciously identified them. That reaction is the thing you were building.
At ninety days you will have drawn most of the deck at least once, several cards many times, and you will read spreads in a way that no amount of reading about tarot produces.
