I decided to try to give someone a reading. I didn’t know what to do, so I grabbed my deck of Tarot cards
Interestingly, the intuitive aspect is the whole piece. The many layered book meanings of the cards are nice, but the cards are window dressing for the intuition flowing through you. As I plucked the cards from the nightstand drawer where they slumbered for so long, apprehension filled my brain. I couldn’t remember all the basic meanings of the cards, let alone the subtle underlying aspects of each. Pouring them into my open hands, shuffling them as though regular cards, preparing to place them in an elaborate layout, I realized I’d forgotten the layouts. Panic struck. With a mental pause, a few breaths, and a release of the tension building inside me, I recalled that intuition works from a place of love, not fear. Eyes closed, I flipped out a card onto the bed, then another, continuing until there were six. It felt right. I opened my eyes. Before me the layout became clear. A couplet of cards laying face up near the middle of the area painted a broad picture of the solution I sought. I interpreted through the apparent picture of the card, the colors, the symbols. Another card lay close, but inverted and I intuited it as an opposite and it fit. Two other cards were sideways at different angles and I felt that gave a degree of meaning based on the degree of sidewaysness. (Yes, I know it’s not a real word, but it works to communicate the meaning.) The last card was flipped over onto it’s front. Turning it over I knew this would be hidden obstacles to the solution. Logically (does logic even count with intuition?), it worked for me. I could comprehend the potential semantics.
Working from love, I was able to give the best Tarot readings. Book meanings? Pah! Complicated layouts? Phh! Infinite subtleties? Piffle! My best Tarot readings came from tossing cards on my bed with my eyes closed and interpreting the meanings intuitively. Maybe that’s all you really need. Perhaps that’s how tea readings work…
Why did I even pick up the cards, again? Because I have had two readings lately, and both readers used Tarot cards to provide focus and information. My attempts at readings so far have been hopeful. I am trying various styles. Each one has it’s own advantages and disadvantages:
I tried automatic writing a while back and was mildly successful. Some of my answers were on target, but not the the right extent. Some of them did not feel as helpful, but allowed me to experience my guides’ sense of humor and point of view. I asked about what was wrong with one of my sons as he was having some health issues. The answer was nothing is wrong with him, he is perfect, as are we all. Not very helpful on a practical level, but a good reminder that we are all energetic beings, not physical bodies.
A friend asked me to try a body scan for health issues. I was able to “see” a spot in her chest and a haze around her abdomen. She said the spot was Breast Cancer that her doctor had just confirmed. The haze she attributed to toxicity of her guts that she was going to cleanse with a process that I don’t recall. That worked well, but I hesitated to find anything as I would like her to only be well. I was torn between telling her what I saw and telling her she was fine. No one wants to be the bearer of bad news. I’m glad she already had the information and was allowing me to “test” my abilities (abilities many of us have and can develop).
Each type of reading can give different results. Tarot gives me a general overview of a situation and solution. Automatic Writing provided details, but were laced with my spirit guides’ point of view. Body Scanning gives health related information, but I will have to practice a lot more to get useful data from it.
movies were thought provoking. I think most of the kids of the time wished they could move things with their minds. It was a nice introduction that there may be more to the world than we think. It certainly made me think. For those of you not familiar with the movies, they are about two orphans that can speak telepathically. They have some other abilities that serve to make some people want to exploit them. Not to give too much away, but they eventually find out why they are “different”.
. It was the book that introduced me to precognition. The fact that people with all of these various abilities were not superheroes really moved me. 
. The carefulness of even Jane Roberts and her husband, their disbelief even as it was happening, made this book readable to me. For all that I may seem open to any type of Metaphysical – New Age – or Woo Woo stuff that’s out there, I am rather skeptical. Much as I was during my Sunday School classes, I question everything. However, unlike many people who have had awareness expanding moments and then denied them, I do believe my own experiences. If I experiment with something like 
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, they talk about the Force and it relates to many of the Metaphysical and New Age ideas. But when Yoda started explaining about how everything is tied together, it made a lot of sense to me based on my own experiences. When he explained in his cryptic way that you cannot start something and be successful by trying, you can only be successful by knowing you will succeed, it was eye opening. I examined my life and could see that when I tried, I usually did not have much success, but when I said to myself, “I can do this”, I had great results. And I still love the lesson that if you start something knowing it is impossible, you will certainly fail. I’ve started many tasks in my life that seemed insurmountable by reminding myself that many other people have already done this, so I certainly can, too. Those tasks seem to almost magically work out. Frame of mind and intention are what those movies brought to me. I may have read more into it than what was really there, but that’s basically how guides, angels, and intuition seem to work in our lives. We receive insight into something that perhaps others do not see.
