Tarot Reading

Understanding Tarot

I am always fascinated by the variations of Tarot Readings on offer and the numerous spreads that are used to reflect our life path.  When I have worked at Psychic Fayres I have observed a great deal about how the other Tarot Readers work in their unique way.  At a glance you look at the spread on the table and wonder how on earth could that reflect one person’s life.  When you study the Tarot you get to see the bigger picture and understanding the Tarot Reading is essential.  It is also important to have a consistent approach to doing a reading because the Tarot Card’s get used to communicating to a certain set of circumstances.  In essence you own and train the Tarot Cards through constant use and communication and you understand the hidden language behind each card.

Starting the Reading

The first impression of the cards can give the overall atmosphere of the Tarot Reading and this theme is likely to be carried through consistently with reference to the first impression.  At the start of the Tarot Reading the Reader should take the cards together as a whole rather than as a series of individual cards. 

The next step of the session is to interpret what each of the Tarot Card means based on their position in the spread.  The Tarot Cards will highlight favourable times and areas where there are new beginnings or significant progress.  There could be a completely new direction coming up which could involve a great deal of preparation.  The Tarot Reading will guide the Tarot Reader to give advice about action that could be taken with a particular situation.

It can seem like the Tarot Reader is looking at a map and can see where the querent is heading on the map.  The Tarot Reading reveals what is coming up on the querent’s life map and that if they took a certain route what they are likely to encounter.  It is important to note that the querent has ‘free will’ where they are able to act against a warning.  If the Tarot Reader advised against a certain course of action then the querent is free to take this advice or go with their own instincts. 

Conducting the Tarot Reading

As you sit across the table and have your cards spread out on the special cloth you should follow each card in sequence.  You explain to the querent that this card is on the Past line and therefore could be a foundation to some issue in their life.  As you follow the pattern of the cards you give intuitive, helpful and meaningful answers to the querent’s current situation.  Quite often I find that fresh thoughts come to them and new inspiration enabling them to feel empowered to make changes about their lives. 

Rachel Saxon works in the psychic and metaphysical industry and offers services Worldwide to advance spiritualism and world awareness,

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By Neoli Marcos

Whether we admit or not, most of us have quaint notions of what tarot cards are. On the surface, they are merely a deck of illustrated cards used in predictions, while the tarot card reader is an eccentric person dressed in robes seated behind the fortune-telling booth in the town fair.

This image of tarot cards is, of course, clichéd, and yet we’d rather feel comfortable with its familiarity than dig deeper.

We resort to the more convenient explanation rather than actually investigate the sometimes unpleasant yet gratifying truth of tarot cards.

Perhaps, the most famous among the tarot cards is the Death Card, a card quite unfairly invested with too much negative meanings and energies behind it, so much so that we usually think of tarot cards as tools of the occult, vehicles of evil even. While we can’t deny the fact that indeed tarot can be used for such purposes, tarot cards can also be perfectly well-intentioned and can be actually used for good causes.

As a matter of fact, the earliest use of tarot cards in fifteenth century Italy was as a game, much like a deck of regular playing cards but with the addition of trump cards. It wasn’t until late 17th or 18th century that tarot cards began to take on a more serious role in divination.

Over the years, the pictures in the tarot cards, their rich symbolisms, procedures, purposes, and meanings evolved in such a way that the characters portrayed in them have come to mirror all our follies, fears, strengths, and hopes. By stringing them together into a tale, we are able to retell and uncover the past as we would have liked it unfold, as well as get a sense of a manageable future we can feel safe with.

A radical and inevitable shift indeed for tarot cards from a simple game to life-changing therapy.

Carl Jung, a world renowned psychologist has always considered tarot as an alternative psychotherapy. By utilising the rich imagery encapsulated in every tarot card, we are able to voice out our concerns, look into our past, and prepare for the future.

In some cases, children who don’t yet know how to speak can use the images and characters in the tarot deck to piece together their thoughts and tell their story. Tarot cards then offer an alternative language system through which we can bring our Unconscious up to the light.

Jung explains that tarot cards represent different archetypes of human personality and situations. The Death Card then is not just simplistically a dreary card foretelling iretractable death to the querent (person who asks questions in a tarot card reading). Rather, the death card can be seen as the death, an end of something inside us: a vice, long standing pain, bad habits, sorrow, signaling rebirth.

We do not just blindly pick out cards from the tarot deck. Every moment of our lives we are armed with choices, choices that spell out and define our fate. It’s not just what you keep out from your life that matters; it’s also what you allow to make a difference. Even if they’re just a deck of tarot cards.

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This article was written by Neoli Marcos for Psychic Guild: online provider of phone tarot reading, love advice and psychic reader

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