7 Tips for Getting a Great Tarot Reading

 Most people come to a tarot reader because they are seeking clarity in their lives.

But there may be times when a reading won’t give you the answers you are looking for.  Is it because the reader sucked – or is it you?

In some cases a reader may indeed lack talent or perhaps have trouble making a connection to you but there are some measures you can take to get the most out of your tarot reading. And it begins with CLARITY on your part.

Here’s what you need to do before you walk in the door and expect to be dazzled:

1.Know what kind of reading you want.  There are many different approaches to tarot.  Some offer straight up predictions, some are therapeutic, some can be interactive and there are those who are only about entertainment.  Find a style that appeals to you and then begin searching for a reader who fits the bill.

2.Pick a reader who is compatible with your energy because simply put, no reader can read for everyone.  A few tips for finding the right reader:

A.You can go by word of mouth but a word of caution: what someone considers a “good reading” may not be your cup of tea.  Be sure to ask details about what they liked or didn’t like about the reading.

B.If they have a website, read it carefully to see if you can get a feel for their personality.  Know their guidelines so you can honor their boundaries (ex: some readers do not answer questions about other people).

C.Contact the reader directly and ask questions about their methods and policies.  If you feel comfortable, it’s probably a good sign that you will be compatible. (In my opinion, this is the best barometer for making your decision.)

3.Get in the right mindset.  Approach your reading with openness. If you are coming in with a skeptical “prove it to me” attitude, you are putting your reader in a hostile and defensive position which is never conducive for a good reading.  Also, never ever get a reading if you are anxious or hysterical.  A desperate frame of mind will only hear what they want to hear, for good or for ill.

4.Write down your questions before you come.  There is nothing worse than walking out the door and forgetting the “big question” you wanted to ask.  Having a list keeps you focused and organized and insures you get the important questions answered.

5.Tape your reading.  This allows you to focus on the reading rather than taking notes. Plus it’s handy for reflecting later. (For the record, I prefer taking notes when I get a reading as I know I will never listen to a recording but that’s just me.)

6.Don’t be vague. Ask specific questions.  Be direct and to the point. Also, be sure to ask questions that empower your situation And please, resist the urge to “test” your reader by dragging a red herring across the question. An honest request to the universe creates honest, clear answers.

7.Give time for things to percolate.  Avoid the temptation to go back and revisit the reading without allowing enough time to pass.  Coming in and hammering the same question over and over only leads to a frustrated reader and mixed messages.  (My cards get very snotty when people are aggressively asking the same questions too often.)

In any service oriented business (yes, tarot reading is one), it is imperative that you be a good consumer.  If you’ve done your homework, you will be able to approach your reading with trust, openness and a clear agenda. And that is the perfect recipe for a great tarot reading.

Part 5 Of My Journey As A Psychic

My last and most favorite psychic gift is the ability to read tarot cards. I was 14 years old when I did my first reading. I had no idea what I was doing and I was doing it just for fun until the person told me that I was right on with what I was telling her. At this point I just laughed it off but a month later the lady came back to me and told me that I was totally right. I finally decided to invest in a set of cards so that I can get a better idea of what to do with them. Things came pretty naturally to me but there was still a lot I had to learn. So I ordered some reading materials that helped me learn the meaning of the cards better than what I already knew. The books helped a lot and I learned so many different layouts. I learned how to create and customize my own readings on my own and I learned what is the proper way to do a reading with someone in front of me and when I did the readings online.

Tarot cards can be used for practical problem-solving, creative visualization, meditation, self-improvement, as a tool of understanding, for divination and fortune-telling, even for card games. Some collect Tarot cards simply for the joy of the artwork, while others look further into research and study of the history of Tarot cards.

Tarot cards are simply a deck of picture cards containing 78 cards in all. Like regular decks of cards tarot cards have four suits. Only instead of the suits having hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs, the suits of tarot cards are called wands, swords, cups and circles or pentacles.

These four suits are divided into what is called minor and major arcana cards. The minor arcana cards consist of 1-10 cards and Kings, queens, knights and pages. The minor arcana cards are the small practical things in life, the daily ups and downs.

There are numerous ways to lay out tarot cards in order to give a reading and the exact lay out may depend on the type of reading that a person is seeking as well as the reader himself.

The three main uses of tarot cards are:

1. Straight divination

2. Spell work (these decks are especially designed for spell work)

3. Working the Tree of Life (for doing a great work)

While you can use almost any tarot cards for straight divination, only the updated decks can be used for spell work and working the Tree of Life.

Part 4 Of My Journey As A Psychic

Hey everyone this entry will explain one of my many journey’s as a psychic. The third psychic gift I have is Clairsentience. Clairsentience has to do with sensing. This is more of a body feeling or sensing than actually seeing visions with your third eye or physically hearing thoughts or voices. I have had this ability sine my teen years. I have always had the ability to feel what others feel whether I knew them or not.

If someone is Clairsentient he or she has psychic radar working all the time, psychically feeling the environment as he or she goes through the day. The down side to clairsentience is that I have become a psychic sponge. I have the ability to soak up too much of the environment and I carry it with me which at times can really suck.

My first experiences were with my family. I could feel when something was wrong before they even said anything to me but as the years went by this ability grew stronger and stronger and it was to the point that I could feel the feelings of total strangers. All they had to do was walk by me and I could clearly feel everything that they were feeling. This ability is good when needed but it is extremely hard to turn it off. I have tried everything and this is the one ability that will not shut down and it drains me so badly. It’s to the point that when I talk a walk outside I have to listen to my Ipod or I will hear feel and see everything that is around me whether I want to or not.

Part 3 Of My Journey As A Psychic

My second psychic gift that I have been blessed with is Clairaudience. Clairaudience is the psychic gift of hearing. My first experience with Clairaudience was when a family member was asking me to do a tarot reading for them. I agreed and I ask what the question they had was and once they told me I immediately received the answer. At first I didn’t say anything because I thought I was assuming the answer so I kept quiet and did the reading once I got home. After doing the reading I realized the answer I had received was the correct answer. At this point I thought it was a coincidence so I let it go. With time this ability kept happening people would come up to me and ask me questions and I don’t know how but I had the answer right away without thinking twice. I never responded right away because I still wasn’t comfortable with this ability so after receiving the messages I would always consult my cards to make sure what I was hearing was accurate.

A lot of people may think this ability sounds simple enough but it can be very confusing. When a clairaudient receives information it comes into his or her mind as thoughts. Since these thoughts don’t sound any different from your own thought’s the clairaudient’s job is to learn through trial and error, to distinguish between personal thoughts and incoming psychic information. There are a variety of sources that send thoughts to us. We could be receiving information from our spirit guides; a guardian angel, deceased loved ones, or earth bound spirits. Spirits do not have voices as we do. The way they communicate with each other and with us is by projecting thoughts. Another form of communication is mental telepathy. This is hearing thoughts of people who are either in your general vicinity or simply in your life. It’s not uncommon for us to pick up the thoughts of people we are very connected to on a psychic level.

At times I will receive messages without a question being asked but that’s not often. When it comes to me this ability works better for me when the question is asked but not everyone’s is the same so this ability can be used in many different ways.

Part 2 Of My Journey As A Psychic

Today’s topic will be about the first psychic gift that I have which is Clairvoyant. My Clairvoyance ability started about 5 years ago. I didn’t realize what was going on until I actually saw my visions come true. I decided to do some research to see if what I can learn about this ability. In my research I found that Clairvoyance is when psychic information arrives in the form of pictures or visions. Clairvoyance is the gift of seeing images. We all have an invisible third eye which is sometimes too referred to the psychic eye. It’s with this eye that a clairvoyant sees information in the form of pictures, visions or images. When we see a ghost, a spirit guide, or a deceased loved one that is also clairvoyance.

At first it just started with visions and pictures but as time passed I was able to speak to the dead through my tarot cards. The person I was reading for would ask for their deceased loved one and they would appear next to me and if they had a message for them it would show through the reading I was doing. The first time I ever saw a spirit is when I was doing a reading for a friend of mine. She asked me about her father who had passed away and out of nowhere he was standing near me. I didn’t realize it was him until I described the man to her she then started crying and let me know that yes it was her father who was with me. As you can imagine I was terrified but the woman’s father wasn’t mean he was very nice and he made sure he got his messages to her and then he left. They were actually able to hold a conversation through the reading which after a while I thought was pretty cool because I didn’t even know I could do that until that happened.

Now when I do a reading if the person I am reading for asks about a deceased loved one they usually come through if they have a message for them or if they just want to talk. Now that I’m use to this ability I enjoy doing it because it gives a lot of people the closure they need that they may have never gotten if it wasn’t for me.

This ability that I have makes it all worth the attacks that I have endured because of the skeptics that say that I’m evil or a scam artist because I choose to charge for my services, but deep down inside I know that I have helped thousands of people get the closure they were so desperately looking for and that’s enough for me.

Part 1 Of My Journey As A Psychic

Hi, Everyone. I am a tarot reader and clairvoyant. I began to develop my abilities when I was 14 years old. At first I thought it was a joke because I read someone’s cards just for fun, but it turned out that my reading was very accurate which scared me a bit. The facts that I read the cards correctly stood with me for about a month until I decided it was time for me to by my own set of cards and learn the correct way to read them. As time went by my psychic abilities grew stronger and I began having visions of things that had not happened yet. At first I thought I was going crazy but one day one of the visions I had had just come true right in front of me. At that point the visions started flooding in and throughout the months they slowly came true. Shortly after this I began to hear and feel and see what people were thinking it’s like I became a psychic sponge. I tried to ignore everything but it was very difficult to do and by abilities to get stronger and stronger.

At this point I kept the ability to hear see and feel to myself until one day I did a reading for a good friend of mine and I noticed a man standing near me. I was totally alone in my house so obviously no one was in my house. Shortly after that my customer asks me to see if her father who had passed away had any messages for her. Now this was my first time receiving a question like that so I ask the question to the cards and her father showed himself to me. At this point I thought I was going crazy until I asked her to describe her father to me. Once she did I had realized that her father had come through and he did have a message for her. In fact they had a whole conversation through my cards. It was cool and scary all at the same time because my friend received the information she needed but I was scared to death. Day by day by abilities continue to grow and I finally feel comfortable with everything I can do I am no longer scared to see, hear or feel anything that is thrown at me.