8 Signs You Are Ready to Become a Professional Tarot Reader
So, you want to be a professional tarot reader. You want to use your intuition to help people gain perspective and understanding. You want to assist them with their most challenging concerns, and helping them to find guidance is your ultimate goal.
Ready to Become a Professional Tarot Reader?
Have you pondered, played your own Tarot cards, and the Magician told you that you are ready to translate your hobby skills into employment? Here are eight signs that you have made the leap from beginner to a professional tarot reader.
How to know you are prepared?
1. YOU KNOW THE MEANINGS OF THE HEART
Reading each tarot card without hesitation or looking at a book is essential to do a professional reading. Your knowledge base and your exclusive relationship with the cards have flourished. You can understand the nuances of meaning in each one on different channels and concerning other topics.
Knowing the meanings allows you to quickly interpret – and gives you space to use your intuition.
2. YOU RARELY DRAW BLANK WHEN TAKING READING
Sometimes even the best of us are perplexed when making a connection between the Tarot Arcanum cards, or we may use it the wrong way.
It will happen, but you must be beyond the point where it frequently occurs before you start reading professionally. You have techniques and strategies that you can implement when these blanks occur.
3. YOU NEED TO HAVE DIFFERENT SPREADS TO WORK WITH
It is not enough to be familiar with the Celtic Cross – a single spread is not suitable for all situations. You must have many spreads in your tarot portfolio, from layouts involved for more extended readings and complex questions to short three-card spread for 15-minute readings.
And you can quickly identify which spread makes sense for a particular customer.
4. YOU ARE COMFORTABLE PRACTICING WITH PEOPLE YOU DO NOT KNOW
You don’t just read to friends and family. Whether you are promoting yourself through social media or sitting on a park bench, your goal is to share your skill with the world at large. You understand people’s questions and reactions and trust your own intuition.
5. YOU CAN SYNTHESIZE CARDS
The tarot’s real magic occurs when the reader takes all the cards in all their respective positions and interprets the complete layout in relation to the question. After all, reciting separately the meaning of each card is not a read – it is a list of things – nothing but a laundry list.
The synthesis allows your intuition and practice with the cards to come together – and you have mastered the art of storytelling what your intuition is giving to you.
You know how to proceed with the reading from beginning to end.
It sounds obvious, right? But even the most skilled tarot reader can forget that reading begins when your prospective customer visits your site or contacts you.
You are a professional and have your own means of registering customers and engaging their initial questions. You have a process, and you treat your practice like the business it is.
6. YOU KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH DIFFICULT CUSTOMERS
No matter how skillful you are, if you practice tarot as a business, you will have troubled people going through your practice. This is a vulnerable arena for customers, attracting people in sensitive locations and skeptics who are closed to new information.
Likewise, some people seek validation and will not be satisfied with an answer that differs from their wishes. You have your own methods to stay calm and stop spreading volatile situations.
7. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TYPE OF TAROT READER YOU ARE
You have a fundamental understanding of your relationship with the cards. You know what kind of readings you are targeting, be it a complex and in-depth undertaking or a quick and dirty analysis. You have a personal philosophy around the tarot, centered on fate, will, or some combination of the two. You can even specialize in specific topics. Self-awareness is the goal of readers and seekers – play with your personal strengths.
8. YOU AVOID BEING A “RUNAWAY PSYCHIC”
It will be times that the tarot cards will show up on your mind and give you some insight into other people’s lives, even when they are not asking you for consultations or advice. Resist the urge to provide them with a” ‘free “consultation because there is a code of conduct to be respected and observed when working with People’s spiritual and emotional lives. Just say something if you are asked.
How Professional Tarot Readers Clean and Consecrate Their Cards
For people who use the tarot, it is essential to take care of the deck, know how to clean the cards, energize them, and consecrate them.
Besides, you should be careful in general, because, with time and frequent use, the cards tend to crumple at the ends or to become more curved. Therefore, it is also important to keep them clean and cared for.
Tarot Hygiene: Learn How to Cleanse your Tarot Cards
The most used form is salt. It is recommended to put salt in a glass of water. Place the cards on the table (with a clean sheet) with the glass on top of them. Be sure the cup is safe and balanced, and it will fall sideways and wet your cards.
Another way to clean tarot cards is to use crystals. Quartz is ideal for cleaning, and amethyst, in addition to cleaning, attracts positive energies. Place the stones on the cards for a few hours, shuffling occasionally.
Another method is passing the cards over a candle’s flame, as the fire burns the negative energies. Still, it is not highly recommended, as they can get dirty with soot or burn if you are not careful. We would not personally recommend this technique.
After a reading, and before you put your cards away, light an incense to cleanse the atmosphere where the cards will be stored (not the cards). Sometimes a reading releases different sets of energies and frequencies that can attach themselves to the environment and the cards. A good incense such as a Camphor one can help avoid this problem.
HYGIENE AND CARE TO USE TAROT CARDS
It is recommended, before reading, to wash your hands, both those who read and those who consult.
Store your Tarot cards in a wooden box or in a closed cabinet, wrapped in a cloth made of natural fibers. Sunlight and even artificial light damage the color of the images.
Use a weight to place the cards when storing them, thus preventing the ends from bending or curving.
ENERGIZING AND CONSECRATING TAROT CARDS
The energy of the deck is personal and can be done in many ways. A widely used method is to leave the deck overnight in the moonlight. Another is to put the herbs on the cards, but you must protect them first with a cloth. The herbs can be lavender or star anise.
Another way to energize them is to surround them with the four elements. The deck is placed in the middle, and around it, a lighted candle, a glass of water, incense, and a stone.
To consecrate them is to give them a purpose and a very personal touch. You must meditate and think about what you want the cards to do and their fate.
Many Tarot readers say that your Tarot gains knowledge with us and with time. It is also beneficial to have your Tarot Deck cross an ocean. The changing of frequencies and latitudes also helps the clarity of the Cards.
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