Is having a tarot reading online as effective as in person?

I am often asked…Is having a tarot reading online as effective as in person?

If effective means insightful and accurate.  Then my answer over many years of online readings has become a confident YES.

The Eight of Wands is about communication, being in the flow, fresh energy & inspiration coming your way. A good card to represent an online tarot reading

Even though I am pulling the cards on behalf of you online, rather that you pulling your own cards if you were sitting opposite me in Battersea, it somehow doesn’t make any difference, the cards still reflect exactly what is going. As I understand it and having reading tarot professionally for ten years and more I trust and know there is an invisible dynamic going on between us with the tarot cards being our bridge. Hence why I chose the eight of wands as a visual for communication flowing through the airwaves.

Besides we’ve all got so used to meeting virtually on whatsapp, facetime, zoom, it feels just as natural and easy as meeting someone who comes to me in Battersea.

The only downside with a camera, is looking at myself! But even that doesn’t take away from the immediacy of doing a tarot reading tarot online. We generally start the session by asking ‘what you would like to have more clarity about by the end of the session’.  So that I have a general idea and then my eyes go down to the cards.  

Whether online or in person, I often start with a short version (or 10 cards) of the celtic cross, as it gives us a snap shot of what’s going on, what’s on your mind, and when that fits we both feel confident we are in sync and can fully proceed with the reading with different spreads for different subjects.

My feeling is that the power lies in the intention from both sides, for the mutual desire for insight and clarity.  And even on a first reading, when we know nothing about each other I find there is an innate trust and openesss to connect for the reading. Both sides are invested in understanding what the cards describe, reflect, advise. And it is out of the conversation between us that springs understanding and insight, new ideas and possibility. I particularly find tarot invaluable when it comes to problem solving and looking at relationships, all sorts of things, in detail. I have been accused (flatteringly I hope) of being very granular, in that I like to be specific, so that options are clear and you are inspired to act. Coming from a TV background, as a producer, I have a natural desire to be constructive so you achieve your goals, whether it is in the area of relationship, career, money, family etc. And why I like to focus also on advice and best course of action. Of course everything is up to you and the actions and decisions you make after a reading. My goal is that the reading inspires as well as informs.

Reading tarot feels totally natural to me and to trust that your questions and dilemmas will have answers.   Perhaps because each person is so unique and every reading different, and I need to be fully present and tuned in is the reason I love it. I find it utterly absorbing and satisfying. And most of all believe it is helpful.

Mind you I have had plenty of sceptics who are very suprised by the accuracy of the cards.   I do try to really describe each card. They go away shaking their heads in disbelief as they can’t understand how it happened.   And come back again. 

I was so gratified in the early days when the young intern who was helping me with social media and had absolutely no belief in tarot, finally ….because I was offering, he had a virtual reading. I remember identifying a specific ‘problem’ he had with a business client. It turned out the insight and advice offered in the reading was a breakthrough in the young man’s business.  His review is on google.

Do come and have a tarot reading with me in Battersea or online.  It’s fun and you will leave feeling lighter and more confident and happier about the direction of your life.