Daily Card
The daily card is a single tarot card drawn for one day — as an impulse, a theme to carry with you, or a question for reflection. It's the simplest and most widespread form of tarot practice.
Instead of a full spread, exactly one card is drawn in the morning (or the evening before). Classical practice reads it not as a prediction but as a focus: an image, a motif, a question to carry through the day and look at again in the evening. It's exactly this simplicity that makes the daily card the most popular entry point into tarot — one card can be learned, lived with, practiced with.
Whether it's drawn from all 78 cards or only the 22 Major Arcana is a matter of taste and of school. Restricting the draw to the Major Arcana makes it easier to start: their distinct imagery is easy to tell apart even without experience reading cards — the Star, Strength or the Wheel of Fortune, say.
A daily card doesn't say what's going to happen, and a "heavy" card doesn't announce a heavy day. Used sensibly, it's a mirror and a tool for attention: it doesn't change the day, it changes how you look at it.
How we use this term
For the daily card motif, Leitstern uses the 22 Major Arcana of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. The card and the astrological data stay separate sources and are never presented as prophecy.
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