Tarot Card
Reading & Councelling
🃏 What is Tarot Card Reading?
arot card reading is a form of divination that uses a deck of 78 symbolic cards to explore the past, present, and potential future. Each card represents different themes, energies, or life lessons. A reader interprets the cards based on:
Their position in a spread (layout)
The question or issue being explored
The intuitive or spiritual connection of the reader
Tarot is not about fortune-telling; it’s more about reflecting inner truths and guiding choices.
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arot card reading is a form of divination that uses a deck of 78 symbolic cards to explore the past, present, and potential future. Each card represents different themes, energies, or life lessons. A reader interprets the cards based on:
Their position in a spread (layout)
The question or issue being explored
The intuitive or spiritual connection of the reader
Tarot is not about fortune-telling; it’s more about reflecting inner truths and guiding choices.
💬 What is Tarot Counselling?
Tarot counselling adds a therapeutic layer to the reading. It involves:
Active listening and empathy
Asking reflective questions
The goal is to empower the client to understand themselves, their patterns, and the options available.
Encouraging personal insight and emotional processing
Offering supportive guidance and actionable steps
Some Tarot Card Reading techniques
🃏 1. Single-Card Pull (Daily Draw)
- Technique: Draw one card daily for guidance or reflection.
- Purpose: Great for beginners to connect with tarot symbolism and build intuition.
🔺 2. Three-Card Spread
- Most common spread with various interpretations:
- Past – Present – Future
- Situation – Obstacle – Advice
- You – The Problem – The Solution
🌟 3. Celtic Cross Spread
- A classic 10-card spread offering deep insight.
- Positions include: Present, Challenge, Past, Future, Conscious, Subconscious, Advice, External Influences, Hopes/Fears, Outcome.
- Best for complex questions or life overviews.
💭 4. Intuitive Reading
Focus less on memorized meanings, more on:
Symbols on the card
Colors, numbers, and emotions you feel
Your immediate reaction and imagery
🌀 5. Elemental Dignities
- Assess how elements (Water, Fire, Air, Earth) interact:
- Fire & Air support each other
- Water & Earth support each other
- Opposing elements weaken the card’s effect
🔁 6. Shadow Work Spread
- Use tarot to explore hidden fears, suppressed emotions, and inner blocks.
- Cards may represent your shadow self, its origin, how it affects you, and how to heal.
🔄 7. Clarifier Cards
When a card’s meaning feels unclear, draw a clarifier card to gain more insight
💫 8. Storytelling Technique
- Read the cards as a narrative or story:
- Describe what’s happening in the pictures.
- How do the characters or scenes connect?
- What’s the story unfolding?
📜 9. Significator Card Use
- Select a card to represent the querent (person asking the question).
- Helps focus the energy of the reading and adds a personal touch.
📚 10. Journaling After Readings
- Write down:
- The question
- Cards drawn
- Your interpretation
- What happens over time (to track accuracy)
📚 Types of Tarot Card Reading
🔮 1. General Tarot Reading
Purpose: Offers overall insight into your current life path or situation.
Best for: People unsure what to ask; helps identify key energies around them.
❤️ 2. Love & Relationship Reading
Focus: Romance, compatibility, breakups, emotional connections.
Common spreads:
You – Partner – Relationship
What’s working – What’s not – Outcome
💼 3. Career & Finance Reading
Focus: Job prospects, financial issues, business decisions.
Questions can include:
“Is this the right job for me?”
“What’s blocking my financial growth?”
🧘 4. Spiritual Guidance Reading
Focus: Soul purpose, spiritual path, connection with higher self or guides.
May include: Chakra insights, past-life themes, karmic patterns.
🧠 5. Self-Discovery or Inner Work Reading
Used for: Personal growth, healing, shadow work.
Often includes:
Strengths & weaknesses
Inner child messages
Emotional blocks
🌀 6. Past – Present – Future Reading
Simple and versatile three-card format.
Best for: Understanding how a past issue affects the present and what lies ahead.
🛤️ 7. Decision-Making or Choice-Based Reading
Helps with: “Which path should I take?”
Structure: Two or more spreads laid side-by-side, one for each option.
🌕 8. Moon Phase or Lunar Cycle Readings
Aligns readings with New Moon, Full Moon, etc.
Purpose: Intention-setting, release rituals, transformation tracking.
👥 9. Third-Party Reading
About: Someone other than the querent (with respect and boundaries).
Used carefully to gain insight, not control, over others’ actions.
🛌 10. Dream Interpretation Spread
Interprets dreams through symbolic representation in tarot.
Layout might include:
Message of the dream
Hidden meaning
Action to take
and emotional processing
Offering supportive guidance and actionable steps
✅ Benefits of Tarot
- Clarity in confusing situations
- Insight into personal and emotional growth
- A deeper connection with your intuition
- Reflection and perspective for self-development
⚠️ What Tarot Is Not
A guaranteed way to predict the future
A replacement for professional advice (medical, legal, etc.)
A method to control others’ actions