HOW TO REALLY LEARN TAROT

PART THREE

If you've been doing the assignments you've accomplished the following two very important improvements to your tarot toolbox: 1) You've identified one key word, phrase or concept for each card, and 2) You've increased your understanding about how to use a tarot spread. This week we'll concentrate on how to improve your overall approach to doing a tarot reading.

The third most common problem that hinders the development of good tarot readers is that they answer everything but the question posed by their client. I believe this is caused in part by numerous nebulous definitions for their cards and in part because they haven't developed good one-card tarot reading skills. The first two articles in this series addressed those two problems.

The rest of the story is some readers get so caught up in the story they forget the question. If you address the implied sub-questions for each position in your tarot spread, you'll minimize this problem. But, if you'll summarize what you've already discovered from these focused one-card readings, you'll eliminate this problem altogether. Take the example we used last week:

Q - What does (the client) need to do in order to attract the right man into her life?

A - Using the Mind-Body-Spirit spread, I suggest the reader answer three questions:

1. What does the client need to do intellectually (mentally) to attract the right man into her life? 2. What does the client need to do physically to attract the right man into her life? 3. What does the client need to do spiritually to attract the right man into her life?

Now I have three answers to three questions. All that's left is to relate these answers to the original question. It can be done in three sentences in this manner: You need to mentally (blank) in order to attract the right man into your life. You need to physically (blank) in order to attract the right man into your life. You need to (blank) spiritually in order to attract the right man into your life. Blank is the answer you received for each sub-question in the reading.

This summarization is the conclusion of the reading. The only thing left is to ask your client if he or she has any questions about this reading. If your client does have a question, you can either answer it with the cards before you or draw an additional clarification card.

As you can see, this system is very logical. It has several purposes and three of those purposes are to resolve the four largest problems that hinder prospective tarot readers from becoming tarot readers. We've just discussed the first three. The fourth is that readers don't know how to do one card tarot readings. You can find some excellent resources addressing this topic on our website in both the articles and short course sections.

Your third assignment is to practice answering the implied sub-questions and the original question for several questions you pose to the cards. It's also a good idea to practice doing as many one-card tarot readings as you can. When you're finished, proceed to

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