This writing is intended to help you formulate or ask questions to the Tarot to get the most out of the reading.
The use of this wonderful tool, in my opinion, has been greatly discredited for many reasons, since the pages that frame tarot readers as “psychics” have become popular, who can give us absolute answers, and tell us what will happen in the future. This has obviously alienated, and rightly so, the most rational people or those who simply take “common sense” into account. Clearly it is impossible to know with certainty what will happen in the future, this has always been a universal concern, but precisely the “salt” of life is uncertainty. It is enough to look around with some insight, to realize that it is very difficult to even predict what will happen tomorrow, both on a personal and social level.
However, both Tarot and Astrology, Numerology and other “arts” can show us the predominant energies at a given moment, and quite accurately, since in a way that is difficult to explain – the synchronicity of which the famous Carl G. Jung spoke, the principle of correspondence of the Kybalion, (the famous “as above, so below”), and many other esoteric laws, some of which are thousands of years old – the Tarot cards, the horary cards of astrology, or the hexagram of the I Ching, whatever the case, “connect” with our unconscious and show us the possible paths… I emphasize the word because we have free will, that is, we can choose to do things one way or another, according to the energy that the wise arcana show us.
Here I want to make a parenthesis and transcribe the RAE definitions of the word arcane/a:
- adj. Said especially of a thing: Secret, hidden, reserved.
- m. A very reserved and important secret.
- Mystery, something hidden and very difficult to know.
Tarot answers at the same level as our questions
As you can see, the tarot arcana are mysteries, important messages that must be revealed.
Therefore, it is advisable for both the reader and the consultant to treat the messages of the arcana with the utmost respect.
This is why questions asked to “test” the reliability of the cards or the reader of the cards, or questions that are unimportant or weighty, superficial, will not have an answer that will provide us with anything, since the tarot responds at the same level as our questions.
Get involved in the Tarot question: place yourself in it as the main actor in your life
Following this reasoning, it is advisable to get involved in the question, for example: instead of asking: will I meet someone?, it is better to ask: how is the energy in me to attract a suitable person to my life? Or… what should I see or work on in myself to be able to have a stable and happy relationship? Or if we are concerned about the professional issue, what can I do to improve my situation? What should I learn from this situation?, etc…
When we ask questions in this way, the answers are much richer, with multiple meanings, and the session becomes interactive, with both the consultant and the reader contributing the interpretations that arise from that interaction.
We must always place ourselves in some way when reading, as actors in our own lives, since we ourselves direct our destiny, which is not fixed, but is the result of the situations that life brings us and our attitude towards them…
As I read a long time ago: “Nothing has changed, only my attitude; so, everything has changed…”
Tarot helps us to know ourselves, to choose the best path, it shows us alternatives, it points out the risks of a certain situation, in short, it is an ally of our personal growth.