There are a lot of hurdles to jump when it comes to tarot reading. First there’s the fact that it involves tarot cards and if you’ve not grown up around them or had a reading with them before they can be kinda freaky. It’s not devil worship, it’s not hokum, it’s weird, sure, but they’re just a tool that Kore and I use to help us tune into the forces we need to so that we can advise you better about what’s going on with your life now or what will be coming up for you in the days, weeks or months ahead.
So, okay, you’ve got over that part but then you’re expected to believe that we can do all this for you without you even being here. It may be hard to believe but I get it. I do. I spent several years trying and testing whether or not I really could tune into people and see what they needed to be told without them sitting across from me sharing energy with me and with the cards.
I’ve always been one to experiment and prove. I tested myself sending and receiving with Xener Cards when I was still in high school, and I did the same when it came to reading cards; joining groups called “Tarot Trade” where I could practice reading for other readers in the same boat, and in the end, just putting myself out there and reading for people in other areas. It wasn’t until I read for a gentlemen late one evening and was praised by him and then found out he was in Ireland that I really felt comfortable saying that I was capable of reading online. Since then it’s been tried, tested and proven over and over again.
Still, you may be asking yourself, what happens when you sign up for this reading. For one, I’m not going to ply you for information. You click on the link in the shopping cart and you tell me what you want me to know. The only thing I ask you to share is this your name, gender preference and starsign or date of birth. This is for two reasons, one so we can address you appropriately and a bit more personably than “dear sir or madam or persons neutral”, and two it does help us tune, by which I mean it’s something we can hold on to and repeat to ourselves as we shuffle the cards and prepare for your reading.
In the run-downs of the type of readings we offer it does say that we’d like an “area of focus” this can be as brief or wordy as you’d like. Some people just write “job” or “love life” and that’s fine, others give us a run-down of their last week and ask for a projection forward both of these are fine and entirely up to you. You can even leave that part out all together and then the reading will focus on whatever the universe/cards feel is the most pertinent to your needs and we’ll go from there.
The next stage is the bit you don’t see. Kore and I both shuffle and deal very differently. She deals from the top down whereas I run my hand along the spread out deck and pull out which cards feel “hot” to me and read from there. We both read reversals (which I’ll talk more about in a different post). We both draw clarifying cards here and there but I will tend to draw clarifiers for court cards any time I draw them though I don’t count those against the number of cards drawn. If you ask for a three card reading and I draw the King of Swords, then the Two of Cups to help me sort out if the King is being a person on situation. I will still draw another two cards not just one. The clarifier is on me, not you.
After the cards are drawn comes the interpreting and note-taking and then the wheedling everything down so that it can be shared with you in a way that makes sense and isn’t just “King–oooh, annoying person, work, trouble, frustration, grr, argh!” along with picture taking and then email compiling and sending. Which is hopefully then met with understanding and appreciation.
Neither of us likes ending things on a sour note, if the outcome of the reading seems overly stressful, frustrating or nasty we’ll pull a few more cards so that we can help get things to a more positive spot for you. Nobody wants to end on a downer. We want you to be happy, or have tools at your disposal to get you to that better place. The reading is about you and what you need, not about us and what we want to share.
Always, always if something doesn’t quite make sense to you in your reading get back with us and we’ll help you with it. Occasionally we’re not as clear as we think we are.
If you have any other questions about tarot or the processes we use feel free to Ask the Silver Path
