Once upon a time, back in the days when I was first studying tarot (on my own, no less -- wish I'd had the Tarot School then!) I had decided to do a tarot reading for myself.  In those days it was pretty much all I did, since I was learning how to do it, and certainly hadn't considered doing it professionally like I do today.  I had a specific question in mind.  There was a certain young man that I had a romantic attachment to, and I desperately wanted to know how he was going to react to it.

So I set forth my plan to do a tarot reading and find out what I wanted to know.  I took a photograph of the young man in question, placed it on the table before me,  lit a candle and placed it next to the candle, and really focused my mind on a mental image of him until I felt confident it was fixed securely in place.  Then I shuffled my deck, laid out my cards, and my jaw dropped.

Every one of the cards indicated that I should stop daydreaming, get my arse off my couch, and get a job!

I have to admit, at the time I was unemployed, and in a lot of denial about the whole issue.  I couldn't believe my eyes.  The tarot had totally ignored my egotistical demand of it for answers, and had instead gone straight to the point and told it like it was.  "Straight up, here it is:  This is what is wrong with your life.  *Do* something about it."

Up until that point, I had looked on the tarot as something like a game, playing with fortunetelling as if it weren't anything significant.  That moment was the realization for me, that tarot is about transformation, in its purest form.  The tarot is a tool which can be harnessed for empowering you to change your life..... and if you are open-minded, it will always tell you what you *need* to know to react to any situation.  Not what your ego thinks you *want* to know, but what your subconscious mind knows you *need* to hear.

If you're not open-minded, well, chances are good you aren't drawn to the tarot if you are closed-minded about life.  But many of us go through life with blinders on, of one sort or another, and that is not necessarily to our detriment.  But the tarot can give us a clear view of our lives from a different perspective, supplying that information which we are unable to see for ourselves and which we desperately need to change the patterns of life which entrap us.

Tarot allows no one illusions.  The ego may want to produce, but the ego is not in charge.  Consulting the tarot means taking those rose-colored glasses off.  And you may wish you had taken the BLUE pill, for a while, but I have found that seeing the truth is addictive and pretty soon you lose your tolerance for false illusion.  Wouldn't it be nice if everyone in the world began reading tarot and started being honest with themselves?  What a wonderful world this would be.......

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article copyright 2000 by Gina M. Pace
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"TAROT TIPS"
Weekly Newsletter of The Tarot School
http://www.TarotSchool.com
ISSN: 1529-0565

April 18, 2000