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What Can Tarot Do For You?
Tarot is best known as a system of divination. It is an oracle, and uses illustrated and numbered cards symbolising the many experiences of the human condition from birth to death, everything between, and also things transcending the individual. It encompasses the small details and hints at the grand plan. Ask a question, like it or not, it will answer.
The purpose of divination (the using of tools such as cards or pendulums, or the use of techniques such as scrying;looking into a ball, water, tea leaves, a mirror etc.) is to enable us to access, with a view of benefiting from, knowledge and understanding that is hidden or submerged.
Whatever comes out of it is not the tarot reader's personal opinion, or shouldn't be, but a message selected from a great pot of collective human understanding.
The Tarot has no vested interest and no axe to grind. It holds up a mirror, without blame or judgement but like a true best friend it will not shirk from telling you 'how it sees it.'
Seeing
your situation from a new and apparently outside
perpective can be liberating. It can save you a lot of
time and energy. It produce a 'eureka' moment.
I
say 'apparently outside' perspective because I feel that
what may be happening during a reading is that your
unconscious mind enters into a conversation with mine.
Study of the cards enables me to translate this
mysterious but natural communication into conscious
conversation.
Tarot readings are often regarded as a form of entertainment, and hopefully, you will always find a tarot reading highly enjoyable and interesting.
But besides entertainment, my personal aim as a reader is to provide a service that is immediately relevant, useful and supportive.
Psychic? Possibly, I am happy to leave that for my clients to decide.
It's thought that random shuffling of tarot cards, which are loaded with symbolism, helps shut off the 'rational' mind - which makes logical but sometimes misleading assumptions based on the known facts. The logical, sensible answer is not always the 'right' one, or life would not be full of surprises.
Focussing on the cards helps the reader's brain wave activity switch from busy, conscious, 'academic' beta waves to relaxed alpha waves or even slower brain wave activity.
The physical distraction of shuffling the cards frees the unconscious mind or intuition (inner tuition or inner teacher) to go foraging for thoughts, knowledge or ideas that are eluding the grasp of the conscious mind.
Deep knowledge of the cards, acquired through long study, communication skills with a real liking for people, being relaxed and having the confidence to trust 'bolts from the blue' or left-field leaps of insight, are the ingredients of a successful tarot reading.
The
psychoanalyst Karl Jung was interested in Tarot, for what
it could tell him about the interconnectedness of human
consciousness. The term he popularised to explain tarot
and other 'psychic' phenomena was 'synchronicity.'
There
are 78 cards in a tarot deck, representing every possible
human situation, and each card offers several possible
meanings or interpretations. A Tarot deck is actually two
decks in one: the 22 cards of the Major Arcana (Major
Mysteries or Secrets, also known as trumps, triumphs or
trionfas, representing archetypes and life-changing
issues) and the Minor Arcana (all the experiences of day
to day living.)
Because
not every reader works in the same way, or according to
the same agenda, it's a good idea to speak to a reader
before booking with them, to see if their service matches
the kind of experience you are looking for.
While
I have had success with predictive work, I read for
independent-minded clients and won't be doing the classic
'fortune telling' thing of intoning in a sepulchral voice
what IS going to happen to you. What I will do is share
with you what I think is the most likely next step,
situation or outcome affecting you, based on which cards
are drawn and what my intuition is telling me as I look
at them.
Let's
put it this way, the future is not a lump of rock waiting
to land on your head. It's more like a cloud of
opportunities/challenges/ threats, that retreats before
you. It may or it may not rain on you, or materialise. If
you want it to rain, try seeding the cloud or doing a
rain dance.
My
approach is non-religious but this is not at all to deny
the existence or the possibilities of a higher
consciousness or grace. Indeed, I feel I have sometimes
seen this in action.
Bring
questions to the table because it's your reading, and
responsibility for your future actions remains entirely
in your hands. While our greatest suffering in life often
comes from things we can't control - when we lose a loved
one, or when other sorrow overtakes us, we can still
choose how to respond. The tarot can still support us at
these times, by showing us the ways that remain open to
us, for shouldering our load and occasionally allowing us
a glimpse of something so 'beyond' us, it is a comfort..
Working
with the tarot has shown me, amongst many other things,
that there is great magic within us all.
The Sun card is usually a very encouraging sign in a reading. It symbolises sunshine and travel to hot climes, happiness, joy from children in one's life, childhood itself, also ambition and achievement.
Reversed it may warn of lesser acheievements or delays, or of a situation in which the sun may be said to be setting.