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How Do Tarot Cards Work?
The novice wonders time and again how a simple deck of cards could possibly foretell the future. How is it possible for a person who is miles away to read your past, present and future with the help of a deck of cards that contains pretty pictures? How do tarot cards work? Some have embellished the power of the cards and referred to magic or a tapping into the divine for the sake of adding a bit more mystique to what is actually a rather simple process.
Perhaps the most straight forward explanation comes from those who have made it their life's work to use the tarot deck to help themselves and others: the cards are little more of a way for the subconscious to connect with the conscious and in that one split second to reveal and empower. Illustrating this is the use of the one card spread where one tarot card is read as an open reading. The querent already has an answer for the question she is thinking of but this spread serves to look into a new segment of life that might be beginning. For example, perhaps she has accepted a promotion and is wondering about the road ahead and the impact the new responsibilities and remunerations may have overall on the status quo of life.
The problem with this kind of reading rests in the overly generic nature that it brings across. This lack of specificity makes it hard for anyone to really allow the cards to shine and for the subconscious to guide adequately the conscious state of being. This is done much rather in a question reading which requires a particular question to be posed. Caution is advised! The framing of the question is every bit as important as the asking itself; a question that is too broad prevents the wisdom of the subconscious to shine through while one that is slanted or negative prohibits the conscious to pick up clues and cues from the subconscious that might be opposed to the negative slant.
So - how do tarot cards work? Tarot cards work in the hands of skilled diviner simply by opening a flow of communication with a person's self. There is no hocus-pocus and none of the ancillary showmanship that is so often associated with tarot readings. Instead, the atmosphere simply serves to set the table to which the individual in question may bring a particular query and then allow the subconscious to impart some already known truths.
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