A Tarot Card Reading is a one on one session between the Reader and the Querent (Client) Irrespective of whether the Reading takes place in person or Online, it is almost always a soul-baring exchange of energies between two people. Tarot Card Readings make you think and they make you reassess. A Reading answers your queries gives you clarity, soothes …
Transformation: Demystifying the Tarot #BlogchatterA2Z
When you hear the word Transformation you don’t bat an eyelid, right. At the most, the mention of this word might pique your curiosity a bit. However, If there is one card that gets an immediate, and horrific, reaction when it appears during a Tarot Card Reading it is the Death Card. The question that almost always follows its appearance …
Spread : Demystifying the Tarot #BlogchatterA2Z
A Spread is the placement of the Tarot Cards in a specific formation by the Tarot Card Reader. The Spread is what helps to answer the questions asked by the Querent during the Tarot Card Reading. There is a Spread for every occasion and every Reader. There are hundreds of Tarot Card Spreads. Some Readers use multiple Spreads for a …
Respect: Demystifying the Tarot #BlogchatterA2Z
At social gatherings, I am often asked if I am carrying my Tarot Deck and if I would ‘answer a few questions quickly’. People I barely know ask me to ‘pick Cards for them’. When I am traveling and meet someone, mostly for the 1st time, I am asked ‘what the Cards are predicting for them’. I can understand that …
Querent : Demystifying the Tarot #BlogchatterA2Z
The ‘Querent’ is a Latin word for ‘The Seeker’ or ‘The one who seeks’. The one who questions an Oracle. The person who is questioning, and receiving the interpretation of the Tarot Cards is known as the Querent. Most people don’t realise that in a Tarot Card Reading it is not the Tarot nor the Tarot Card Reader who are …
Pagan : Demystifying the Tarot #BlogchatterA2Z
Pagan : A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions. Paganism is also known as the religion of peasantry. During the Middle Ages, the term Paganism was applied to any non-Christian religion. Pagans believe that nature is sacred and the natural cycles of birth, growth and death observed in the world around us carry profoundly …
Occult: Demystifying the Tarot #BlogchatterA2Z
Occult The occult (from the Latin word occultus “clandestine, hidden, secret”) is “knowledge of the hidden”. In common usage, occult refers to “knowledge of the paranormal”, as opposed to “knowledge of the measurable”, usually referred to as science. This is how Wikipedia defines ‘Occult’. Tarot Card Reading is known as an Occult science. However, people are unaware of what the word Occult truly means. …
Need: Demystifying the Tarot #BlogchatterA2Z
‘I am just curious about Tarot, there is nothing I really want to ask.’ ‘Life is going great, there is nothing wrong as such, just want to get my Tarot Cards read for the fun of it.’ When faced with such requests, I am forthright enough to say, ‘No, you do not need a Tarot Card Reading’. Being a Professional …
Misconceptions: Demystifying the Tarot #BlogchatterA2Z
How many Tarot Card Readers do you know, like personally? My bet would be none (and no I did not need to read my Tarot Cards to predict this) When people find out I am a Tarot Card Reader the reactions I get are, shall I say, amusing. After the complete silence that falls post me introducing myself, an up …
Lovers: Demystifying the Tarot #BlogchatterA2Z
My theme for the #BlogchatterA2Z is ‘Demystifying the Tarot’ and I have been unveiling Tarot Card Reading with each post. I have been writing about the Tarot, the Deck, the process, and little snippets of how a Reading is done. In my posts, I have often repeated that a Tarot Card Deck has 78 Cards and each of the 78 …