Did you know that a good way to charge up/get to know your tarot cards is by playing solitaire with them?
I was told this by a mentor and just recently put it into practice.
Huh. So why does that work for you? What do you feel the mechanism is over shuffling?
Generally, meditating on the meanings of each card and traveling within them via astral vision are used to get to know a deck. I’ve never heard of playing solitaire as a method. 
How is supposed to help?
Same questions as the other two responses but with an addition. How do you play solitaire with tarot, like what are the rules? I guess there are multiple types of solitaire but I’m imagining the classic one like the one on Microsoft computers. I am having hard time seeing how that would work with the major arcana.
To answer your question, no I did not know this. I’d imagined if you told a story while playing based on the cards you are moving it would help you connect with the meanings and their relationship with other cards.
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I’m assuming it’s because I’m/you are using the cards and they get a charge from that. I mean, they get shuffled, moved around and it’s a bit meditative. It just feels the cards are happier when played with rather than just picked up when I/you want something.
It’s another way to interact with the cards in a non-work/not asking them for anything way that they seem to like.
It’s normal solitaire rules for the most part.
The Major arcane, I admit, I use as free cards that you just discard into their own pile. The rest play like a normal deck of cards. I normally go K, Q, Knight and page then 10-A. Swords are spades, cups hearts, pentacles clubs and wands diamonds.
Cards just seem to like it.
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