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Tarot
Readings: Divination and Psychology
We have read about the major and minor arcana, we got ourselves a deck, and we've found ourselves staring at it not quite knowing what to do. What is next step? Getting familiar with the cards is a good idea, but isn't everything.
The first step is to understand the real reach a reading can have. When doing one, we're stepping into the querent's unconscious, and thus we must be extra careful. Personally I'm not into hundred per cent divinatory readings, because they tend to create false hopes, or self-explained prophesies, that is, if we announce something it is more likely that what we say will happen because the querent has it's mind set to have that happen.
But I am indeed in favour of using readings as a subtle method of psychological exploration, using which we can help the querent intuitively perceive the secret motiffs hidden behind what the future has in store for us, and if not wanting them, take appropriate measure and try to work hard on our motivations to produce the desired outcome. Which sets free will into active work, instead of leaving us as a simple toy of fate. Having said all this, let me make clear that NEVER should this be used as a substitute of normal psychological therapy: if necessary, this MUST be done by proffesionals. We will never be able to solve a psychosis with a reading, not even with a series of them. But for many focal questions, ocassionally used, could help a great deal.
What follows are six different suggestions, in order of complexity, that go from the simple and structured to the complex and free, so as to give different options and levels of difficulty.
