Over the years I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon. A skeptical person will come to me to get his cards read. I’ll give him a good reading. He’ll be astonished, and tell all his friends, and then WHAM! – he’s calling me ready to schedule again. And again. And again.
If you read cards, I know you’ve experienced this. If you’ve had a good reading as a client, you know that feeling, too. And there IS a temptation to get your cards read too often.
So, how often is too often?
I am a firm believer that the only one with power in our lives is US. We can’t blame our boss, our children, our spouse or the bogeyman; for the things we don’t like, we are tired of, we just plain can’t stomach anymore.
Hate your job? Only you can find a new one. Children driving you crazy? Only you can lay down the law – or get a sitter! Just because we are in the drivers’ seat in our own lives doesn’t mean it’s easy to get to the destination we’re aiming for. And it also doesn’t mean we know how to get there. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in a problem we think there’s no way out.
That is the moment that a reading can be invaluable.
So take the tools you received in the reading and go out there and make some changes. Here’s the problem: Sometimes what you learn in a reading is really astonishing! How could the reader have known about your private life? About that secret you never told anyone?
Ahhh, there’s the rub! It seems like a magic trick and we want to see it again. Or, it can have the same effect as an ad for the newest diet pill on someone trying to lose weight. It APPEARS that we can get to our destination without having to do the heavy lifting! Yay!
Did you ever notice that those new, super-duper diet pills come with these instructions: in addition to taking the pills, you must also follow a low fat, low carb diet and you must exercise regularly?
Well, my friends, if you want a good reading, you must do the actual work of your life yourself. Don’t be distracted by the fact that your situation can be read in the cards. You must take what you’ve learned, apply the tools you’ve been given, plant the seeds for change, and stay on that course.
It’s true that every time you make a choice, your possible future outcomes change, too. But unless you give yourself at least 30 days to see the fruits of your change-making behavior, you are doing yourself a disservice.
You wouldn’t tug on a new shoot in the garden in hopes of making it grow faster.
If you step on the scale every day, it seems like you’re not losing weight—even when you’re doing all the right things.
And if you get frequent tarot card readings you have stopped working on your life, and given up your power to the reader. Very likely the exact reason you came to her in the first place.
Make a commitment to yourself. When you get a good, solid, professional Tarot Card Reading, you will not schedule another for 30 days. See? You’re in charge already!
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Thank you so much for your insights, Aeons. I don’t think that people get the notion that we’re here to LEARN. That’s what all those tension-filled days and nights are all about. “Knowing the answer’ before something happens can actually work against a querant if that’s all they came for. However, if their motivation for learning what’s setting up for them, is to answer the bigger lessons that drive life’s apparent ‘problems’ – then the benefit is immense!
Thank you for posting this. I look at Tarot, or any form of divination including (but not limited to) astrology, numerology, Medicine Cards, runes, etc. – as tools know the self and circumstances we find ourselves in (which we ourselves create). It seems that people treat readings and such as more of a game, and that cheapens it. Often the motivation for getting a reading is based in materialistic gain as well, rather than as a tool to aid spiritual evolution. I agree 100% with doing the work to get what you want or need. It seems that our society is growing too used to having all the answers handed to us on a platter. We rely too heavily on things that are outside ourselves when all the answers that we need are within. These tools are outward reflections of that.