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The Message In the Title Card

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Not long ago a client came for a reading. He had recently retired and was curious about what was coming next. The reading showed clearly that he had completed what he had contracted to do. The future card was blank. Literally blank - it was the title card.

As your tarot practice grows, it's easy to fall into a humdrum pattern of reading that takes the magic out. Great tarot is a mix of skill, art and something more. Your relationship with this something more is what will keep your readings continually fresh.

Making Space

Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who truly listened to you? When you create places in your tarot readings for the something more to speak, you are that partner who treasures every word of your beloved.

Protecting

Good intentions alone are not always enough to protect a client. Some people who come to you have been badly treated by other readers. Two thousand years ago the great scientist Ptolemy wrote guidelines so astrologers would know when not to speak. In your practice, have you thought about the things you won't say? As a professional reader, an ounce of prevention is worth more to your clients than a pound of cure.

The Blank Card Method

Here's an automatic way to add extra communication with that something more. It's easy to do, requires no study and always works.

Most tarot decks come with a title card. You may be in the habit of removing it before you do your readings. Try this experiment. For the next few weeks, leave this card in the deck. If it appears, treat it as if it were perfectly blank.

A regular client had been betrayed by her lover. She was longing for revenge. The future for her lover was revealed to be the blank card.

When the blank card appears, you are being tapped on the shoulder and pulled out of your reading. There is always a reason for this. Take your foot off the gas pedal until you know what's coming around the curve.

Let's imagine you have the very details your querent is seeking. You know they are going to get the job. You feel obligated to tell them because they are paying you. Do you tell them? To paraphrase Hebrew National, you answer to a Higher Authority.

Put the title card back in your deck. Get ready to be wowed.