| I've been doing Tarot readings for over 25 years | | | | To give you a clearer picture of what I am talking |
| now. Lots of people ask me in passing, after | | | | about, let me give you a piece of a sample reading |
| performing a reading for them, "How does one learn | | | | that I did. In this reading, the subject asked me if he |
| to do that?" It's a funny question for me, because | | | | boyfriend was going to ask her to marry him in the |
| unlike everything else that I have learned in my life, | | | | coming year. In laying out the cards, I saw that the |
| Tarot Card reading was something that, for me | | | | majority of the cards supported an early marriage |
| anyway, came more from my gut than from a book | | | | and yet, the final outcome showed no marriage. To |
| or any teacher. This article is not going to discuss the | | | | be honest, I was quite puzzled by the whole thing, |
| mechanics of reading Tarot Cards. That will be saved | | | | until I realized that this wasn't a black and white |
| for another article. What we're going to do here is go | | | | situation. There was another option and sure enough, |
| into an area that I like to call "Beyond The Cards." | | | | it was the one I saw when I told her that her |
| Hopefully, after reading this, you'll have a pretty good | | | | boyfriend was not going to ask her to marry him, |
| idea of what I'm talking about when I say to go | | | | but instead was going to ask her to live with him. |
| beyond the cards. | | | | She insisted that he'd never do that because he |
| If you've ever looked at a book on reading Tarot | | | | knows how she feels about that. Still, I insisted that |
| Cards, you pretty much have the basics down as far | | | | he was going to ask her to live with him. I'd been |
| as reading cards on what I call a "technical" level. But | | | | wrong before, but I was pretty sure about this one. |
| a true psychic only uses the book as a guide, and at | | | | Sure enough, he DID ask her to live with him. |
| times a very loose guide. See, the problem with | | | | If I had interpreted the cards literally, I would have |
| books is that everything is written in black and white. | | | | done one of two things. Either I would have looked |
| Unfortunately, our lives are not black and white and | | | | at the majority of the cards pointing towards a |
| each situation requires a different interpretation of | | | | marriage proposal and said, yes, he was going to ask |
| the cards. The trap that most beginning readers | | | | her to marry him, or, I would have looked just at the |
| make is to try to fit the cards to the situation, or | | | | final outcome card, that showed a definite no and |
| should I say, the perceived situation. The situation is | | | | told her that he would not ask her to marry him, |
| not flexible. It will be what it will be. You can give | | | | leaving out the possibility of the alternative question, |
| guidance and try to warn your subject about a | | | | "Will you live with me." |
| certain course of action bringing about possible harm, | | | | This is an intuition that you will build over time. It is |
| but the situation is what it is. To that end, you need | | | | what I call going beyond the cards. |
| to make the situation fit the card. Each card then | | | | Try it sometime. You may be surprised by the |
| interprets differently based on the situation. | | | | results. |