How a Tarot reading asks us to trust our own intuition
There’s one card in a tarot reading that always make me laugh, in a more rueful rather than delighted way, and that’s the High Priestess. Especially when a client pulls it as an advice card. Because the advice is, trust your own intuition, your own wisdom. You can see the irony, for the tarot reader not to mention the client who is hoping the tarot reader is going to tell him/her what that means.
Anyone who has tarot readings with me will know, I am very keen on advice cards, because my theory of how life works is…and how best to respond to a tarot reading is ok I have the insight….now what ‘should’ I DO about it. I am a firm believer in the co-creation idea of life….the wonder of life/potential/destiny and how we connect/work together. Of action.
I pulled it as a daily reflection card a couple of days ago after a bit of a traumatic incident which involved ambulances and two nights in A & E…..I suppose I was thinking day 3 post incident, how do I respond, what do I do today? Hmm follow my own instincts.
My own instincts were telling me, I don’t want to paint, don’t have the energy to create something new, I want to go into the park, commune with nature and then go to the library. I haven’t had a good book by my bedside for months. And reading more, more great authors is very high on my happiness list. And so I did that instead, and how happy it made me talking to the very well read librarian in my little local library in Battersea about books we love. It was the greatest pleasure of my day which I owe to the High Priestess.
She trusts her own intuition and keeps her emotions at her feet
The very next day a client pulled it. As nonplussed as I, we discussed what she meant to us. Moon (emotions) at her feet, she is able to tune into her own innate wisdom and navigate between what she knows consciously and the unconscious. She understands the mystery of duality, how good and bad, the shadow and the light, yin yang masculine and feminine, while opposites co-exist and thrive side by side. She tunes into her own intuition and ‘spirit’, what we are conscious of and what is unconscious. She knows the answer she seeks will come from deep within. She is being asked to have complete control of her emotions, in order that her intuition will give her the answer, and let what is hidden to her come to the surface. A moment of quiet patience trust and honesty letting go of the intellect.
Do come and have a tarot reading with me, even if we end up discussing the meaning of a card to unravel the message in a reading.