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5 Personal tarot fundamentals

Hello loves,

There is alot to consider when you decide to do tarot publicly for clients. Most of the things come up with time and as you grow, but there are some things you may want to consider before you start reading. This post is long anyhow so lets just begin.

1. Define what kind of readings you will be doing-  It's important to know yourself as a reader. 

What kind of readings you want to do, and what  readigs you would rather avoid?  

Do you want to do future teling? Or do you want to do more spiritually oriented readings? 

Will you include other card systems in your readings (Oracle cards, Affirmation cards, Lenormand, exc…)? These are all questions you may want to ask yourself if you haven't already. 

Once you know yourself  as a reader you can grow with your cards.

2.  Boundaries-  This ties in with the previous point. Once you have defiend yourself as reader it is up to you if you follow what you have set down to do  or not. If you find yorself in a situation where you are asked to do a reading but you don't feel that the reading would do any good, what will you do? 

If a client who is paying askes you to do a reading that goes against you code of ethic, will you make an exception and read, or will you explain what kind of readings you are doing, and recommend different reader? If a client has an answer he wants to hear, but the cards suggest something else, will you go with what the client wants, or will go with what the cards are saying?

3.  Objectivity- There will be times when you will feel tempted to give suggestions based on your opinion. Tarot reader should show what  possibilities at hand are, and let the person who is getting the reding decide. We can give ponters and tips based on cards. If you are ment to say something you will know it, there will be no other than spilling that truth out, and that is positive.

4.  Preparation- Preparation for  reading is as important as the reading itself. Weather you do simple meditation, grounding, clearing and clensing, exc. Small things can make a great difference. 

If you have something that gets you in the reading mentality make sure you allow yourself to do it before starting reading.

5.  Engage and exchange- Many readers get troubled when it comes to getting paid for readings. 

This is important thing to determine when and if you decide to sell your readings. 

If you decide to give readings for free that is great but what if you are afraid to put a price on your work. Many face that fear, I know I have. You may get asked why you ask for money in exchange for reading, before you explain,  you have to know the answer yourself. Is it for the time you are investing? Or are you saving some extra money for that trip you want to go on? Or is this your full time job?

There is much more you can explore. These are some basics to get you started. If you have any questions post them int he comments or pop over on facebook and send me a message :D

Hello love,  

I'll be honest I love free flowing readings but I can't give up my spreads. I still collect them and adore them. It's such a beautiful form of divination. If you are working with spreads and are just dipping your fingers into the free flow stuff, this is for you.  It can be hard to leave something you are so comfortable with, but as the saying goes ˝Life begins at the end of your comfort zone˝.  That said I want to present to you some things that may rise up when you start doing this work. As with all things you will get better as you practice. 

So let's begin, pull a few cards out on the table. First you may choose to pull just one card at this point I would encourage to you to try pulling two to three cards. 

At the beginning it may be hard to get what each card position  is telling you. At this time you probably already think  that you can't do it or that you can't get the meanings from the cards. 

Don't panic, allow yourself to relax.  

Look at each card individually and see what each is trying to tell you. 

When you are doing this make sure you listen to what you are guided towards. 

If you feel that the card is talking about the past and the card next to it has advice on dealing with that past issue  and the third card talks about how to heal from that  issue in the first card exc. Go with it, these are all clues to help you guide the reading.  If  you are very structured and organized by nature it may come hard and it may take more time to go with the flow and do something unexpected. 

On the other hand if you are free spirit you may have easier time adjusting yourself to free style. What I would say  is the most important thing to remeber is your connection to the cards. 

Having intuitive connection with the cards is amazing anyway but if you are trying to do the free style it could be helpful to explore this area.  When I tried to do  free style readings for the first time I had hard time but I just went from card to card for  meaning, and then tied them together and give a cohesive reading.   I can't give you a ˝HOW TO˝ guide for this beacuse there isn't one, this is a free flowing process personal to each indiidual. Things like pathworking, meditation, crystals exc.  may help. Do you! Use things that you know work for you. It takes practice and patience and remember that we are all different and everyone will have different approach and everyone will  learn it differently. Free style readings may or may not be you cup of tea, and if they are not you don't have to worry there is much more you can explore and return to this topic later.  

Much love xoxo

Hey love,  

instead of me talking to you about something I wanted to give you something practical you can use around Christmas time. I got idea for this spread from the movie called ˝A Christmas Carol˝. If your not familiar with this movie. The main  character is an old, bitter  man named Scrooge. He gets visited by three ghosts of Christmas, ghost of Christmas past,  ghost of Christmas present and ghost of Christmas future. They show him how he has and still is living his life and how his life will end. By  the end of the move he loses his bitterness and gets into the holiday season spirit. While I used the idea behind the movie for this spread, I also introduced other ideas that originate from Yule festivities and shadow work.  This spread can be used with oracle cards aswell as tarot cards.  Without any further ado here is the spread.

Past 

1. Where have I been. Past joys, sorrows and memories.  This card will show a general image of our past self. 

2. Leasons I've learned. Knowledge you have collected that you may or may not recognize. 

3. Things I still haven't delt with.  Stuff I drag  from the past. This could indicate fears or  drama that still hasn't been resolved yet.

Hello love I want to talk to you about using tarot during holiday season. What you may be worrying about is how can I incorporate tarot into my holiday experience. Tarot isn't a part of any ˝traditional˝ holiday . But what if you want to have a wonderful holiday experience, besides getting tarot under the chrstmas tree.  Here are a few ideas about including tarot into your holiday experience.  

1. Holiday  tarot decor.  For this just take some chrsimas decorations and create something like 3D mural with tarot. Use things like pine cones, fairy lights, ornaments  and other holiday shizzle.  

2. Having a Holiday  party or gathering.  Take your tarot and use it. This is great if your just starting and need practice but also for the ones who have been doing this for a while this can help you get feedback and see where you can grow with your tarot.  If you have someone who is sceptic or thinks you are doing devil work this is great time to show them what realy means to do tarot and how amazing it can be. 

3. Use tarot as a gift.  What I mean by this is giving indivudual cards as a gift or in adition to your greeting card. You can give a whole deck away to one person but giving individual cards can be really amazing. You can use either tarot or oracle deck for this. It looks good and it means alot. 

4. Create  tarot holiday  art. Tarot in itself is art so whay wouldn't you create a peace of holiday art that is tarot themed.  You can create anything you want. Peace of art can be a drawing, a painting, a poem, a meal you will have or a space you will dedicate for your tarot work. It's all about you creating something.  

5. Create a holiday  tarot spread.  Crazy thought, but why not  create a tarot spread. Be guided by the theme of the season but most importantly allow the spread to mirror what Christmas is to you.  Go crazy weather you will use this spred exclusively for yourself or you will use it for others. Allow the spread to flow with you.  

6. Do you! Holliday season can be very hectic and stressful. If you find unable to follow through with what you have planned. Don't despair. Do you! There is nothing bad in saying fuck everything and doing your thing. Allow yourself to be guided by what you want instead of what you should do.

I will be posting some photos that will be in adition to this post on my Facebook and Twitter. If you want to get into the holiday spirit with tarot and me defenetly check that out.  

Much love and Happy holidays. xoxo

Dealing with creative blocks

Creative blocks are a part of our experience, we can fight with them or, we can  use them as motivators. I believe that with creative blocks we can learn about ouselves and our creative process. Understanding your creativity can greatly help you grow and expand your creative ability.  Fun thing is that there are millions of  was to overcome a creative block. I am here to give you my perspective on them, if you don't find this useful don't wory, there are hundreds of thousands of other ways to flame your creativity up. It is up to you to find the one that works for you. For me I just need to get inspired. Weather that is by reading an article on a killer subject  or watching a video on youtube.  I get realy inspired by cultural knowledge. I love experinecing new things and just learning. So anything that expands my knowledge, inspires me to create. I'm realy interested in self development and I try to practice it every day in my life. 

What  I have found is that expressing your blocks can actualy eluminate and remove them. I believe  that expressing (writing, saying, drawing, exc.) your blocks enables you to overcome and understand them. Practically this would mean taking some time and allowing yourself to express yout thoughts, emotions and experiences with this creatice block. This is how this peace of knowledge has come to be. Because I'm stuck I am writing on that stuckness. Because I hate it I am trying to understand it. There is a positive intention behind every negative experience. You just need to allow yourself to find and understand that intention for yourself.   If you find yourself stuck for a long time, allow yourself to change focus.  There is nothing bad in taking some time of from one point and focusing on something else, and them coming back with fresh perspective. Don't preasure yourself. Allow yourself to flow with your creativity. 

Much love xoxo 

Commitment

To many people commitment is about doing only one thing at the time and completly focusing on it. This is true to a degree, you can do something and be focused on it, but that doesn't mean that you are totaly commited to it. To be totaly commited you need to be in the moment. You need to present with what you are doing.  

You need to be present with your heart, thought, and spirit. Also be sure that what you are commiting to is worth your time and energy.        If you are unhappy doing something, stop doing it. Why would you torture yourself ?Common thing we face with is fear of commitment. This fear works like defense mechanism to protect us from being hurt. Pain and hurt are the greatest motivators in life.       We will do anything to avoid them, so in order to avoid them we create cover up emotions and defense mechanisms.  Sometimes we start to believe in the cover ups and we forget about the real emotion behind them. This fear comes from being afraid of someome or something hurting us.  To realy understand our fears we need to face them. Let me tell you, fear is only an ilusion.  You need to go deep and find the root of the fear and face it. Why would you choose to live your life in fear when you can be happy. Alow yourself to enjoy this experience. Alow yourself to be in the moment.

 Much love...