What is Tarot? 

Tarot is a tool and a language. We can use this tool to guide us in our self-development and in our spiritual explorations. It can also provide us with intuitive messages, advice and knowledge related to our day to day lives, while also supporting us through our healing, learning and creative processes. 
This tool speaks to us through a system of symbols and archetypes which form a universal language used to communicate to us comprehensive understandings and wisdom about our nature and our reality.  It works in such a way as to provoke what is hidden and buried within us to come to the surface to bring us clarity, illumination and truth.

​A Tarot reader and guide is someone who has developed a relationship with the cards through extensive experience and exploration. When you are receiving a reading, what comes through will be dependent upon who you are working with, how they use this tool and how they speak through this symbolic language.  Each reader and guide will offer you something different .  A reader and guide will help you to navigate the information that comes through and support you in how to understand, apply, integrate and take action through the information that is provided.

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​What to Expect from a Reading 

​When you choose to have a reading it's because you are ready for receiving the information that will come through. This is most often information you already know on some level and a reading helps to bring it to the surface in a way that is objective, confirming and clarifying.  

A reading is NOT about predicting the future.  A reading is about empowering you through an honest and objective assessment of your life in the present moment and supports you by providing understanding and advice in how to move forward towards your highest potentials and possibilities.

​A Tarot reading is meant to be confirming and clarifying of your own truth. The cards are not giving you answers, they are simply a tool which helps us to lead you to the answers you already have within yourself.  A reading should empower you in your own truth, not tell you what your truth is.

Things to expect - Clarity, advice, understanding, knowledge, intuitive messages, inspiration, motivation, and support with healing, learning and creativity.

​Things not to expect - Yes and no answers, names, dates, locations, future predictions, being told what you should or should not do, and insights into other people's lives. 
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For inquires that involve decision making, please understand that you will not be told what to decide, but you will be given advice in how to make a decision and what things to consider based on what is being observed in the present moment. It isn't healthy to come into a reading with the expectation to be told what to do.  You are fully responsible for that choice.  As well, it's important to not hold to the idea that you will be told which path to take with the belief that there is right or wrong answer. Every decision will come with its rewards and challenges.

Extending upon this, it will also help to know that after a reading you may be very clear in what actions to you need or want to take. Sometimes things work out exactly as planned through taking these actions. Sometimes though, things don't work out as expected.  What's important to consider is that a reading happens in the present moment, and it is helping you to start taking the next steps on how to move forward towards your truth and goals. However, the next step might be a challenge or lesson you need in the overall journey to get you where you’re going.  Be patient and trust that you will know how to apply the guidance you received as you move along.

With questions and focuses that involve other people, you can ask about how you personally relate to the person, what energy you share with them, and how their energy influences you.  However, without the permission of the other person, do not expect to receive personal information or insight into parts of their life that do not concern you. Please also be aware that while we can bring in understanding of their energetic imprint on your question or focus, we cannot predict their choices and actions.   The advice that will come through will be about supporting you through whatever energetic situation you are engaged in with them currently, but cannot tell you what they are thinking, feeling, or doing.​

 

What to Expect from Me

​I am a Tarot Guide. I am not a fortune teller.  My role is to communicate advice and understanding through the tool of Tarot with objective honestly and to help you navigate your current life situation in such a way that is empowering and supportive.  My intention is to guide you to your own inner truth by helping you see beyond the surface of your life circumstance and to help you to understand the energetic themes and influences that are currently at work in your life.  I also work with the intention to help you find inspiration and motivation to move towards what you want to create and advise you in how to take actions and steps to do so.  My intention is not to provide phony predictions of the future, deliver messages that are fear based or not supportive, or to tell you what you should or should not do.  

 

​What to Bring into a Reading 

​You can come into the session with a particular focus and specific questions, or you can just be open to what can come through naturally.  Simply having a general curiosity is enough. A focus will naturally emerge on its own. We will discuss this when the session begins to determine how we will proceed. 

It is important to be in a state of Trust rather than fear. It is natural to feel a little apprehensive because of not knowing what may come through. However, the intention is not to deliver information that is fear based, but rather information that is inspiring, encouraging and helpful.  Trust that the information will be presented to you in a healthy way.  My intention is to communicate with you through honesty, compassion and kindness.  Also know that a Tarot reading is like a therapy session, and so whatever is shared will remain private and confidential between us.

 
​Be willing to communicate. A reading works through what is shared, it is not about reading your mind. The more you communicate about your life circumstance, thoughts, feelings etc., the more I can be specific and clear.  Also, if you can communicate what you are experiencing throughout the reading, such as sensations, memories surfacing, or thoughts of people, places and things, this can also be helpful.  That being said, it's important you communicate what feels right to you. Some people only feel comfortable communicating a small amount of information while others feel they need to share more to process what's coming up.  Remember this session is for you and it is up to you to get from it what you need.  Please ask questions or comment on whatever you are experiencing throughout and if there is anything you don't understand or that does not resonate, please speak up so we can navigate accordingly.

Overall, a reading will go as far and as deep as you allow.   What we explore will be relative to what you need, want and allow.  Your energetic openness and direction of communication will determine where and how far we go in.  There is no right or wrong to this, it is only to be aware that you play a significant part in the reading, and it will be up to you how you want to utilize this session together.
​Please feel free to take notes or record the session.  Both can be useful in the integration process after but are not necessary. Some choose to do neither and that's OK. Do whatever is comfortable for you and allows you to be fully present for the reading.

 

Beyond the Reading

What you take from a reading is your own responsibility.  What you have received through this reading is not law, and it is up to you to discern what is true and resonate for you and what is not.  Whatever actions, thoughts, feelings etc. that you choose to take and create from what has come through is completely your own choice and responsibility.   

After a reading is complete there is still more to be observed. A reading can bring a lot to the surface and not all of it can fit into the space given to the reading itself.   Every reading will be different and the experience that continues after may be subtle or intense. The energy can continue throughout the day or over several days.  If you are able to observe that what follows as an extension of the reading, this will help you to better understand aspects of the reading on a deeper level and help you to integrate more of what has come through.​

I often recommend that people spend time alone to meditate and journal after a reading to help with this process. Also, to avoid drugs and alcohol because these things can distort, distract and suppress the experience.  Since the session involves a movement of energy, it is sometimes possible to experience a headache afterwards or a crash of energy.  Water, rest and quiet are the best remedies.

​The energy and advice that comes through a reading can be an opening.  After a reading things can begin to shift, change, open and expand. What comes through in a reading can be relevant for days, weeks, months and even years.  Somethings will be obvious and easy to act upon, while other things will be more subtle and work under the surface in a subconscious way.  Somethings will be deeply profound and life changing, while other things will be related to the mundane everyday tasks of your day-to-day life.  Every reading provides a different experience and different insights relative to the time a place in which you receive it and what you allow to come through.   

Also, important to consider is that some aspects of the reading will provide clear understandings and observations in the moment, while some aspects will need more time to be fully realized.   What is obvious will be because it is information that is already known and available.  What is not obvious will be information that is meant to come to the surface to begin an awakening of thoughts, feelings, inspirations and understandings.  It may still take some time to come into full illumination of what these things mean.   Be patient with the process.  

People often ask when they should have their next reading.  There is no set time frame for this.  Readings are about tapping into the live energy of the present moment.  If nothing much has shifted since the last reading, you may not receive any new insights.  However, some people find great support through readings and can benefit from multiply readings close together as this can provide deeper insights through a process that can reveal different layers of understanding.  It is up to you to decide and discern when the next reading will best work for you.