A Tarot reading is like a snapshot of what your life looks like at the time of the reading. The cards tune into your energy, to give you a picture of unseen influences, patterns of behavior, obstacles and strengths. A reading can give you an idea of where you've come from, where you are now, where you want to be and how to get there. 

You don't have to be someone who believes in Tarot to benefit from a reading, usually the cards will make a believer out of you. No one has really been able to explain why the cards are able to "see" the future. It could be in the cards, but mostly it is the cards in the hands of someone who knows how to use them. Your reader should be someone who is experienced in Tarot and feels as though their deck speaks to them directly.

Different readers have different ideas of where their talent comes. For many psychics, the power is inherent within the reader to tap into universal understandings, and the cards are simply a medium to help trigger that personal talent. Others may speak of tapping into a "universal consciousness." Still others credit the influence of gods or other supernatural beings to place the cards in a meaningful order.

Readers commonly believe that the future is fluid and thus absolute predictions of future events are impossible. Instead, they focus on possible outcomes as well as examining influences related to the issue at hand, influences the subject might not even be aware of before the reading.
Tarot reading thus arms the subject with additional information so that he or she may make more informed choices. It is another avenue of research, so to speak, and should not be seen as coming with any guarantee of ultimate outcomes.

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