1. Before your Consultation with the Cards
2. Types of Questions to Ask
3. After your Reading
4. When to schedule your next reading
5. Types of Intuitive Gifts
6. Professional & Community Resources
1. Before your Consultation with the Cards
Tarot is a great tool to help you get to a place you want to go. It’s choice oriented and helps you progress in life. While there may be some psychic hits, tarot offers theory and strategies to guide you towards living with integrity and wholeness. This is how I practice and use the tarot.
As you prepare for our session, think about what you’d like to focus on and start to form your question. Moments before our session, create space (shut out distractions, turn off phone, meditation, incense,) ground yourself and ease expectations. This will help you see the cards objectively for greater impact in your situation.
2. Types of Questions to Ask
- As your reader, it’s my responsibility to guide your question for a valuable and successful impact.
- Avoid asking when or will. You’re assuming your future is set in stone and there is nothing you can do to change it. I’m here to help you become a master of manifestation. For best results please avoid asking fortune telling questions.
- Ask what… or how… you’ll receive guidance for conscious creation to manifest your dreams. It’s much more empowering and honors your free will and your ability to make choices about the direction of your life.
- Focus on one topic for your Self. It will lead to a more focused and powerful reading. If you’re unsure what to ask, schedule a Live reading and we can get to the heart of the question together.
- Timing questions are challenging, but I can use the Tarot to see what advice it has to work through blockages. The cards will guide us in navigating this situation, but there won’t be a set date and time. If your expectation is a date and time, you might not get a lot of value from this reading.
3. After your Reading
Consider scheduling a spa treatment, nature walk, or mediation after our reading. It will help ground you back into the present and integrate your takeaways. If a lot of shadows are highlighted in our session, consider additional support through your health care provider, therapy, or community programs. Especially if you’re struggling with mental health, toxic relationship patterns, addictive behavior or self-harming behavior. You’re not alone. I provided more information in the Resources section.
4. When to Schedule your next reading?
In my experience it takes time to integrate our take-a-ways and give space for intentions to grow.
- -For Celtic Cross readings, I recommend 2-3 months between readings, and suggest bi-weekly 3 card spreads to enhance your integration process.
- For 3-5 Card readings, I recommend 2 weeks between readings, or each new moon & full moon.
- For New Year & birthday spreads, I recommend once a year.
5. Intuitive Gifts & Resources
Coming into a reading you might be aware of your own intuitive and psychic gifts. If it’s all new to you, below are some resources to types of intuitive gifts and literature I recommend for personal & professional spiritual development. For myself, it’s essential to stay connected with modern research and techniques. Research, read, and follow what sparks your joy. The path will unfold.
Types of Intuition/Psychic Skills:
- Clairvoyance means clear seeing.
- Clairaudience means clear hearing.
- Clairsentience means clear feeling.
- Clairalience means clear smelling.
- Clairgustance means clear tasting.
- Claircognizance means clear knowing.
6. Professional & Community Resources
Through my experience as a reader, our shadow side often comes up and it can become overwhelming to navigate on your own. I hope some of these resources may be helpful for preparing for your reading and after-care.
Dr. Judith Orloff
https://drjudithorloff.com/
Recommended Books:
Positive Energy
Second Site
About:
Transforming the face of psychiatry, Judith Orloff MD asserts that we are keepers of an innate intuitive intelligence so perceptive that it can tell us how to heal — and prevent — illness. Yet intuition and spirituality are the very aspects of our wisdom usually disenfranchised from traditional health care.
Dr. Elaine Aron
https://hsperson.com/
Recommended Books:
Highly Sensitive Person
Highly Sensitive Person In Love
About:
Dr. Aron earned her M.A. from York University in Toronto in clinical psychology and her Ph.D. at Pacifica Graduate Institute in clinical depth psychology as well as interning at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco. Besides beginning the study of the innate temperament trait of high sensitivity in 1991, she, along with her husband Dr. Arthur Aron, are two of the leading scientists studying the psychology of love and close relationships. They are also pioneers in studying both sensitivity and love using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology
https://www.energypsych.org/
The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) is a professional organization for licensed healthcare providers and allied health disciplines, which serves to organize and unify Energy Psychology methods, provides professional support and education, and establishes ethical guidance in practice.
Therapy Services:
- Betterhelp.com
- Talkspace.com
- Your healthcare provider
Community Services:
- Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families
- Al Anon
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Buddhist Recovery Network
- Codependents Anonymous
- Life Ring Secular Recovery
- Overeaters Anonymous
- Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families
https://adultchildren.org/
Adult Children of Alcoholics provides a safe, nonjudgmental environment that allows us to grieve our childhoods and conduct an honest inventory of ourselves and our family—so we may (i) identify and heal core trauma, (ii) experience freedom from shame and abandonment, and (iii) become our own loving parents.
Al Anon
https://al-anon.org/
Al-Anon members are people, just like you, who are worried about someone with a drinking problem. Some of us are here because a spouse or partner has struggled with alcoholism. For others, the problem drinker is a parent, child, or grandchild. Sometimes a brother, a sister, or some other friend or relative brings us to Al-Anon. Many of us have had more than one alcoholic family member or friend.
Alcoholics Anonymous
https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/what-is-aa
Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, multiracial, apolitical, and available almost everywhere. There are no age or education requirements. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about his or her drinking problem.
Buddhist Recovery Network
https://www.buddhistrecovery.org/
The Buddhist Recovery Network promotes the use of Buddhist teachings and practices to help people recover from the suffering caused by addictive behaviors and is open to people of all backgrounds, and respectful of all recovery paths.
Codependents Anonymous
https://coda.org/newcomers/
A program of recovery from codependence, where each of us may share our experience, strength, and hope in our efforts to find freedom where there has been bondage and peace where there has been turmoil in our relationships with others and ourselves.
Life Ring Secular Recovery
https://lifering.org/lifering-recovery-menu/
LifeRing Secular Recovery is an organization of people who share practical experiences and sobriety support. There are as many ways to live free of illicit or non-medically indicated drugs and alcohol as there are stories of successful sober people.
Overeaters Anonymous
https://oa.org
A community of people who through shared experience, strength, and hope are recovering from unhealthy relationships with food and body image.
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
https://slaafws.org/
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition oriented fellowship based on the model pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous. The only qualification for S.L.A.A. membership is a desire to stop living out a pattern of sex and love addiction.