A Word about Tarot: Understanding Tarot Is Understanding Your Readings

I tell all of my potential clients via statements pasted across my website and other advertisements that I am a psychic who uses the Tarot, but I am not a Tarot reader.  The difference is that a Tarot reader, through many months or years of study is able to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the spread they are doing.  They are able to decipher meanings based on standard or their own system of stringing the meanings of the cards together to create a story.  A person like me, who is sometimes referred to as an intuitive reader, uses the Tarot’s symbols in order to interpret messages from within themselves. 

 

Of course, these two styles of reading can cross over.  There are very highly intuitive Tarot readers who use a combination of strict interpretation and their own intuitive ability to translate messages for clients.  There are intuitive who use standard interpretations of Tarot cards because they happen to fit within the context of their readings. 

 

I have given and received hundreds of Tarot readings.  I regularly consult with a friend who taught me techniques for reading and interpreting images in the Tarot.  I have come to a few conclusions.

 

1.      Representations of people constantly change and unless a Tarot reader has worked with you fairly regularly or unless they are extremely good at picking up the changes and nuances, they are apt to miss these changes.  I had a reading where an individual constantly came up as either the King of Pentacles or the King of Cups.  Some Tarot readers interpreted these as two different people, when in fact the cards were describing the same person.  The King of Pentacles was the physical description and the King of Cups was his emotional description.  Subsequent readings found that the cards representing this person changed yet again, where he was then represented by the King of Cups and the King of Wands.  Tarot readers, again, misinterpreted this to mean two different people, when, yet again, it was the same person who had undergone some growth in their life and changed the way in which he was represented. 

2.      Great care should be taken when attempting to identify people in a Tarot spread.  I have found that there are times when I am reading for a client and when I am shown an image, that image can represent:

a.       How the individual views the other person.

b.      How the other person views themselves.

c.       How the reader views that person.

d.      How the person appears at present

e.       How the person will appear in the future

f.       How the person was in the past

g.      A physical description

h.      An emotional description

 

3.      It is possible to do timing with Tarot and I found that the easiest method for timing is “Timing by Aces”.  You can find more information on this at: http://www.bewitchingways.com/tarot/timing.htm.  Simply ask a question such as, “When will I meet my soulmate?” or “When will I find a new job?”  Be sure to be specific about timing.  Other than that, certain Aces can indicate certain time periods. 

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