Tarot
To read the tarot it isn’t necessary to be psychic but it is important to tune in to our intuitions. What is interesting however is the more we use our intuitions the more we open up our senses and have psychic moments as a result. Each tarot card has a standard meaning but the difference between a good tarot card reader and an ordinary one is how developed their intuitions are. An intuitive tarot card reader will use their senses and gut feelings as well as the literal interpretation of a card to get the full essence of the cards meaning. Like everything else in life the more we use our intuition the sharper it becomes. The stronger our intuitions develop the more accurate our readings become. Tarot cards are tools that help focus the intuition for those with intuitive skills. Some people have intuition as a gift others may have to work harder to open that part of themselves in order to have a little intuition. Many times those with strong intuitions to the point of being psychic may have had it in their families and it is passed along from generation to generation.
Many people that are not opened to the idea of the Tarot and intuition dismiss the idea of reading with the cards as a cheap parlour trick. The truth is that most people have a misconception of what a reading is. It’s the intuitive gifts that the reader has and how he or she applies them to the cards that makes a reading effective. Most people who read cards are already intuitive to an extent from very early on in their lives which is what made them gravitate to the tarot in the first place. The tarot are not magic in and of themselves when you take the cards out the box. It’s the person’s energy that is used to create that, for lack of a better word, “magical” interaction between himself and the cards. It’s the person’s connection to the cards their intuition and their interpretation that makes the magic happen during a reading.
Just as there are many types of card readers; there are many tarot decks to choose from. What happens when a person goes to buy a tarot deck is that the artwork draws them to a particular deck. A person will read effectively if they can connect to the artwork on the cards. This is because the artwork gives the person a feeling based on what the pictures mean to them. For instance, someone with an American Indian spirituality may gravitate towards those decks influenced by the American Indian people both spirituality and culturally because they can identify with the artwork. The symbolism therefore in the cards is enhanced by the affinity the person has to the art work both culturally and spiritually.
The other thing that’s important for that magical connection to the cards is the life force energy in our bodies. It’s that energy in our bodies that circulates through our being and connects us to our spiritual essence. Life force is what gives us a will, a vibrancy and a spiritual connection to things outside of ourselves also. This same energy is released when we touch the cards. Our energy is imparted into the cards by just putting our hands on them. When we use the cards in a reading our energy flows into the cards from our hands because we consciously direct our focus to the cards for a reading. Different readers use this energy different ways. Some will actually let the client touch their cards in order to feel the person they are readings energy; while other readers won’t because they do not want to mix their energy with the people they are reading. I myself do not let people touch my cards but I have friends who are gifted readers who do. It’s up to how we the reader decides to work with the energy we have as well as the energy of the person who is being read.
When we choose the cards for a spread; and this is true particularly seasoned readers the cards embark an energy through our hands and tell us when to stop shuffling and or when to throw a card on the table. This is how it works for me and I know it works for other readers as such. There are those readers who will use the other person’s energy and have them shuffle and pick the cards for their reading. In either case it is that same energy that drives the person to pick and shuffle the cards for the message they are about to receive.
