I just watched a powerful video on learning to use your intuition. It includes a guided exercise toward the end to help you find your intuition. I admit, I thought that some of my intuition was a gift, but apparently, we can all learn to use it, fine tune it, and get answers to the deepest and most profound questions that will change where we go in life.
Why, as a tarot reader who is trying to build a profession from my gift, would I tell others how to access their intuition for all the answers, instead of having them come to me for them? For one, I'm not that selfish or greedy. I actually believe that the world is changing toward a more intangible, spiritual, metaphysical one. We've lived through the age of reason, and we are beginning an age of the transcendental. Not only do I want others to come with me on that journey, I feel that using my intuition will help me gain greater access to the psychic messages I receive, and as I counsel others through tarot readings, I can help others access their intuition to get practical applications to implement needed changes that the cards suggest.
Practicality through intuition? How's that for an oxymoron?
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
What's up next...
I'm starting an 8 week online course by Amy Zerner and Monte Farber, who make one of my favorite tarot decks. The course, Tarot for Personal and Spiritual Growth is offered here thru DailyOm.com. I'm astonished that you can set the price you pay for the course, from $1 on up. Great for those of us tarot enthusiasts who are on a meager budget! Pay what you can afford, and learn along with me! I will be discussing some of my insights and thoughts as I go thru the course here, and I invite you to comment or disagree whenever you like! Tarot is best learned thru discussions and trading viewpoints with others.
My earliest growth as a tarot reader was using their Instant Tarot Reader. It is the same deck, smaller cards which are the same size as traditional playing cards and therefore easier to shuffle, but the companion book not only gives you definitions for each card, but also what each card means in each position in the layout. Often, during a reading, a card can mean very different things, depending on where it lands. For instance, the Tower card, which means violent change that is needed to remove that which no longer serves you, can be a warning that your apple cart is about to turn over if it's in your near future, but if it appears in your hopes and fears position, it's something you are afraid of, or hoping someone will effect the change for you, so you don't have to. I swear that while using this book, which by now is dog-eared and tattered, has been replaced once, and has loads of notes in the margins, different meanings would come up out of the blue, that I'd never seen before, just when I needed the message. A word of caution: it's easy to use this book to the point that it becomes a crutch and you don't move forward in your learning of tarot. It's so good that it does all the heavy lifting for you, and I got caught up for a long time in relying on it solely, rather than listening to my own inner voice, and connecting directly with the cards and my Higher Power.
I will say now, too, that as a tarot reader, I HATE the Rider Waite deck. I know. That is sacrilege in my field, as it is the standard that all other decks reference. But I absolutely can't use it. I have a deck, and I use it mainly for reference or instruction in my tarot study group, and I've learned much of the symbol meanings from it. But it just simply Does. Not. Work. In my hands. So if you've been brought into the world of tarot with this deck, and you think you can't read tarot, I encourage you to choose a deck that speaks to you, rather than one everyone else thinks you should start out with. I wouldn't be where I am if I had listened to "Them".
My earliest growth as a tarot reader was using their Instant Tarot Reader. It is the same deck, smaller cards which are the same size as traditional playing cards and therefore easier to shuffle, but the companion book not only gives you definitions for each card, but also what each card means in each position in the layout. Often, during a reading, a card can mean very different things, depending on where it lands. For instance, the Tower card, which means violent change that is needed to remove that which no longer serves you, can be a warning that your apple cart is about to turn over if it's in your near future, but if it appears in your hopes and fears position, it's something you are afraid of, or hoping someone will effect the change for you, so you don't have to. I swear that while using this book, which by now is dog-eared and tattered, has been replaced once, and has loads of notes in the margins, different meanings would come up out of the blue, that I'd never seen before, just when I needed the message. A word of caution: it's easy to use this book to the point that it becomes a crutch and you don't move forward in your learning of tarot. It's so good that it does all the heavy lifting for you, and I got caught up for a long time in relying on it solely, rather than listening to my own inner voice, and connecting directly with the cards and my Higher Power.
I will say now, too, that as a tarot reader, I HATE the Rider Waite deck. I know. That is sacrilege in my field, as it is the standard that all other decks reference. But I absolutely can't use it. I have a deck, and I use it mainly for reference or instruction in my tarot study group, and I've learned much of the symbol meanings from it. But it just simply Does. Not. Work. In my hands. So if you've been brought into the world of tarot with this deck, and you think you can't read tarot, I encourage you to choose a deck that speaks to you, rather than one everyone else thinks you should start out with. I wouldn't be where I am if I had listened to "Them".
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Hello...I'm Mysterie
My name is Mysterie, and I've been reading tarot for the last 14 years. I connect with my spirit guides for information requested by the querent. I always ask that the information provided be for the highest good of all people involved in a reading. Each reading is different, and the messages I receive from each card vary based on the question and the questioner.
Whether you call it a Higher Power, spirit guide, angels, God, or the Universe, it is this benevolent source that provides me with answers in a reading. I use the Shadowscapes Tarot and the Zerner-Farber Tarot decks, both of which provide beautifully rich images and are based on Rider-Waite.
I hope you enjoy the journey and study of the mysteries in the tarot cards with me!
Whether you call it a Higher Power, spirit guide, angels, God, or the Universe, it is this benevolent source that provides me with answers in a reading. I use the Shadowscapes Tarot and the Zerner-Farber Tarot decks, both of which provide beautifully rich images and are based on Rider-Waite.
I hope you enjoy the journey and study of the mysteries in the tarot cards with me!
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