We all have a story, a past, a present and a future. We stand at some point on the fulcrum of our life, balanced in the Now moment. Sometimes we wonder how we got here, what were the Spiritual Winds we rode to get to this point. Have we just been victims of a chancy fate that played with us and put us into this current situation? Or is it something more? Are we somehow crafting our own life experiences without knowing or understanding how this process is done?
As a Book of Life, Tarot shows us the deeper, more significant aspects of our life. Like reading a good book, or listening to a great storyteller, Tarot can open doors into the deeper questions of our life such as what am I here for, what are the challenges I’m facing, and what are some of the important choices around these challenges.
Often times, the challenges we think are important are simply trivial to our Soul/Spirit. Seeing much of our lives from this higher perspective changes the fundamental questions a great deal.
If Tarot, then, is the Book that is available to us about our lives and our experiences, then what about the Reader?
The Story is only as good as the one doing the reading. Learning the alphabet is great place to start reading. You have to understand your ABCs if you are going to read even the simplest sentence. Without this basic knowledge, books will not tell you their story. Like trying to read the chicken scratch in a barnyard, it will be meaningless.
The separate cards are like the alphabet, but a bit more complex. Like taking an A and reading each line and space as if it contained a story, then following it up with the next letter, perhaps an M, reading the lines again, how they cross each other, those spaces between the lines and how they shift from the A to the M, and this too is a story.
Now take the A and M, put them together to get a flow, from one place to the next, and you arrive at the concept – AM. Now imagine that you add color to the letters, and background designs with birds and trees and wind or anything else that seems pertinent to the letters A and M, and you can begin to get a feel for how each card becomes a story that follows through with the other cards selected. The colors and background add depth and description to the unfolding story.
A beginning reader will be sounding out the alphabet of the cards, talking about this color, or that structure. A beginning reader will rely on a book for help in understanding the deeper elements of a card. We all begin here, and it can be a lot of fun to sit down with a deck of cards, a friend or two and start playing.
I highly recommend it, but a beginner will probably not get the story straight, or may misunderstand bits and pieces which can lead away from the Truth the cards reveal. However, we all have to begin somewhere, and just like learning to read a book, a beginner sounds out the story in bits and pieces until she learns to put it all together. And with practice the story takes form and begins to deepen.
A good reader tells the story that comes up, using the background and the details as ways to focus the journey. A good reader can be very helpful to someone who is struggling with the issues of life’s journey and can help a client discover some of the reasons behind the things she does. This is the level to seek if you want to know about specifics in your life. Reading at this level requires the reader to be willing to set aside ego and move into Spiritual space.
A profound reader, however, opens up to the journey through her Soul/Spirit, and allows the Spirit to speak the story. At this level, a reader is no longer just reading about the discouragements or frustrations of the situation as it exists in the Here and Now. At this level, she is delving into the why’s and wherefores, seeing the interplay of light and shadow, of energy as it moves through the aura and spiritual space of the client.
This is the level to seek if you are wanting to understand and change your current circumstances. Reading at this level requires experience, talent and a willingness to be Spiritually open to the energies of others.
Awakening To Spirit 