The Other Side of the Tarot Table
The layout Karen used in my reading encompassed three timelines: past, present and future. Karen sees her job as “being a witness to” and “assisting a client in determining if she/he is living in the present moment, hanging onto old baggage or worrying about the future.” She also guides a client to seeing how events in the past infiltrate the present.
In my reading, Karen questioned an incident between my spouse and his brother. She noted that this event “was anchored in the recent past but was on-going.”’ She also saw another person in the middle of it, “a mother or mother-in-law—more likely the latter.” If my spouse, whose picture appears in the dictionary under the term ‘skeptic,’ were sitting next to me, he’d have fallen out of his chair. Karen, whom I had never met (nor even heard of before this interview) had intuited a situation that was wrecking havoc in the lives of more than a few family members. Even though it was not the first thing in my conscious mind when the reading began, it carried enough psychic energy to reveal itself in the cards.
For the next phase of the reading, Karen prepared the Tarot deck. Her deck of choice is The Hanson-Roberts Tarot. Like the traditional deck of cards, the layout is significant but, with Tarot, the way the symbols emerge in the layout provides a more striking revelation of the patterns, problems and possibilities in the client’s life. Based on the way cards turned for me, Karen provided guidance about my role and choices I might want to consider as I navigate through this family challenge.
Apparently, going into the reading and interview with thoughts about my writing career was not in the cards for me that day. One thing my subconscious wanted to see more clearly was my spouse! Even though we had not spoke since very early that morning, and I made the conscious effort to clear my mental clutter before I entered Karen’s sacred reading space, the event she spoke of in reading the regular deck emerged in the Tarot reading as well (and so much more). Karen didn’t make generalizations that I superimposed upon circumstances in my life. She was very specific. Karen and I have never crossed paths before this interview, yet she could see so much. There was a lot of information and energy to take in and hold space for in my mind and heart.
Guidance, Choice and Responsibility
Karen encourages her clients to think about the guidance revealed in the cards in light of who they are and before making any changes in life, to consider the resources they have or need to acquire (e.g., timing, social support, financial and emotional resources).
