Unusual Ways to Use the Tarot

There is a technique a reader can use when looking at your cards to see other things besides your life situation and the future you’re setting up.  When you’re having your cards read, you can divert the reading to these areas at any time. They do require a shift on the part of the reader which simply means that I must take a moment to look at the cards another way.

Once a friend called me and asked if I had taken her ‘Christmas Pan’ home with me when I’d come for dinner the week before.  I told her that I didn’t have it, and after we established that she’d spoken with the other guests and checked her cupboards thoroughly, I took out my cards.  As I turned them face up for the reading, I laughed.  The first card that I turned over was a picture of the god, Pan. Since we were looking for a lost pan, and Pan showed up, it was funny enough, but Pan is a god who is known as The Trickster, so I expected something crazy to happen – and it did.

As I looked through the cards, I understood that if my friend went back to the cupboard and just looked inside, that something would get her attention in there.  When I told her this, she said, “Oh, Deb, I’ve taken everything out of that cupboard a dozen times! It’s not in there.”  I challenged her to look, and within a few minutes she was calling me back to say that when she opened the cupboard, it was sitting at the door in front of all the other pans!!  Strange, I know, how did it happen, exactly – I’m not sure.  But the cards brought the episode full circle!

Pushing through your creative block is a very different scenario, entirely.  Suppose you’re a painter or a writer. You’ve gotten paying work doing what you love, and out of nowhere comes a block – a mountain that you can’t seem to scale.  The technique for addressing this is the same for the reader, but perhaps a little less exciting for the querant.  The reason for this is, the block is always of our own making, and we have to take a good hard look at things we’ve been trying not to see.  These situations tend to be so client-specific that it’s difficult to find an example that would make sense to anyone reading this.  However, know that this is a practical use of the cards, and one you might use.

Even if you don’t know how to read the Tarot, you can pull cards yourself for a particular character or plot and using what you see, find elements of the story that perhaps you didn’t think of.  This is an easy way to jar loose some ideas that are stuck.

Communicating with Those Who Have Passed On

I have had people ask if I could speak with their relative or friend who has passed on.  I have made the connection many times.  Once, during a reading for a mother who had lost her child, I was getting clues about their life together and was sharing them with the mother.  There didn’t seem to be any message for her, and as I was picking up my cards, I glanced down and saw the King of Cups. The words flew into my head, “You never go to the water anymore.” When I spoke them to the mother, she burst into tears, as the family had stopped going to the beach since their beloved daughter had passed.  It was her favorite thing to do as a child.

Another time, as I was reading for a friend who had lost the love of her life, I suddenly felt that I should just close my eyes to look and listen directly to him.  He showed me a flame and told me to tell his love that whenever she saw a flame, that it was him watching over her.  At the end of that reading the energy in the room was so dense that we both had to go outside for a walk and some fresh air.

Don’t be afraid to suggest other ideas to me during a reading. I’ll always try for you if you’re asking an ethical question. If you want to know what the secret forumla is that your competitor has developed, I can’t help you.  But if you have out-of-the-ordinary types of questions, that just require a little more or different effort on my part, I’m happy to help.