Tarot predictions vs coaching
The truth is that there is no one deck suitable for a reading or one
way to do a reading. Having this in mind, let’s assume that there are two main
tendencies, or inclinations towards the characteristics or the type or reading
that you may encounter with a professional or with someone who is proficient at
reading.
The first is a type or reading that has a strong effect of
predicting events or certain results. These are historically speaking the
fortune tellers’ type. We all have images from movies of dimly lit spaces, the
fortune teller sitting behind the curtain and the questioner in a kind of awe
and reverence and wonder is asking the mysterious reader if they are predicting
death, sickness and other calamities that will cause great and often sudden
distress in their lives.
These predictions are past on us as irreversible, are not able to
be undone or altered in any way, and are followed by the appropriate tone in
voice, often grim and rigid!
Thankfully the days are gone and one is to wonder if such
predictions offered anything at all to the questioner. A better reader, even if
they wanted to go down the path of fatalism, would convey if any information perceived
about the future event, in a way that it would be beneficial to the person
enquiring.
The coaching style of conveying information would have a totally
different goal. Regardless of the future outcomes and or the ability of the
tarot and the reader to predict the future, information is passed on in a
constructive manner that will only benefit the person having a reading or a
consultation.
A contemporary reader will paint the full picture of how and why
the situation is the way it is, what lead to the present situation and what all
these will mean for the possible outcome. A modern reader is likely to
communicate effectively and expressively the various facts, the set of
circumstances in which the client has found themselves in and all that surround
the state of affairs.
A competent reader could go on to help clients understand issues
from a different perspective and help them (clearly as a person who is above or
not influenced by the situation) find clarity when they feel uncertain. This is
does not mean that the reader who is acting as a coach will decide for the
client, take responsibility for their future actions or decisions. The reader
could help the client understand certain concepts with greater sophistication
and depth or simply help the client understand
something clearly and distinctly.
So,
a reader acting as a coach must help clients to become more aware of their
behaviors, thoughts, emotions, and beliefs surrounding a certain issue,
situation, person and so on. A totally wrong question for a client to ask,
would be, for example, “should I divorce my husband?”. Instead of this a tarot
coach would paraphrase the question as, “tell me what I need to know about my
marriage right now”. A “successful” reading would reveal all the circumstances
around the issue, past and contemporary events that create the situation the
client is in, and so on. The sum up of all these will show the future outcome –
but again it is up to the client to process all these, make changes or not, have
their aha moments, etc. We have choices and the future is not fixed.