In most people’s minds, “Tarot card reading” means a woman in flowing robes, leaning over a small table in a candlelit room, foretelling impending doom.
But that’s not really what Tarot cards are about. They're not really meant to tell your future or fortune actually. "The most powerful sources of information come from within according to The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn;the Tarot aids in coming in contact with one's Higher Self.”
But what the mean of that? we’ll look at the various ideas about where Tarot cards come from, what they mean and how a deck of cards can possibly tell you anything about yourself in this article. You'll learn why you don't have to be a psychic to do a Tarot reading and why it matters where the cards fall.
Types of Readings
Question readings and open readings are two different types of Tarot readings.
Reading with questions
In question readings, you are addressing a specific question. It is not to answer specific yes or no questions about tarot. Most say it also shouldn't be used to make decisions, but instead should be used as a guide to help you make the decision yourself. For this reason, It's very important the way a question is stated. According to Joan Bunning, Tarot readers and teachers, questions should:
* Keep your options open: you're not allowing the cards to guide your overall decision if you have the answer before the reading. It is narrowing the scope of the true question by answering it before you even get started, For example: Asking how you could encourage your mother-in-law to move out, as opposed to asking how you can get along better with her.
* Find the best level of detail: Your question should be focused, but not overly detailed. Find a way to look more broadly at it rather than looking at one particular aspect of a problem. Take a example, ask how you can better balance kid schedules and adult schedules but not to ask how you can make your home life less chaotic. That question is focused. That's too detailed--- do not go so far as to ask how you can coordinate baseball, soccer and Cub Scout schedules and still have family time --. In order to express what you want to learn from the cards only include the minimum level of detail needed.
* Focus on yourself: If the reading is for yourself, rather than focused on someone else who you think may be the root of your problem, make sure your question focuses on you. For example, asking why your son is experimenting with drugs is not focusing on you, but your son. Asking you play what role in your son's decision to experiment with drugs brings the focus of the question back to you.
* Stay neutral:your question has to be neutral to stay open to other points of view and not convey a preconceived notion that your view is necessarily the right one. It can give you guidance if you ask for the cards. For example, asking why you're doing more work around the house than your spouse isn't neutral; asking how you can get more cooperation from your spouse when it comes to housework is neutral.
* Be positive:Make sure state your question in a positive rather than negative way. Ask what you can do to help make that event happen instead of asking why a specific event hasn't happened.
Open Readings
Larger aspects of your life rather than a specific problem area or question addressed by open readings. They're usually done when you're entering a new phase of life, such as getting married, graduating from college or starting a family. If you have a general area you want to cover,You can somewhat direct the reading,such as your career or health, but that's as specific as the direction gets.
