General readings

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 08 Jun 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

napaea	08 Jun 2002
Question for all you tarot gurus! I'm so glad to have found this site, I have only been doing tarot for a few years and the only other person I know that does it has been at it for like 10! So yay to finding this site! Anyway, when I do spreads for my friends, I get lots of random information like, "someone here has to go to the bathroom", or "you cut your foot as a child, right?", or "someone in your family has breast cancer". What is the best way to incorporate this random information into a general reading without losing continuity or making it all sound confusing? Help? Napaea

Faerie Lin	08 Jun 2002
I think those messages coming to you like that could be a good way of just letting the people know that you are getting connected with them, tell them that this has nothing to do with the subject at hand, but maybe should be said just to insure you are connecting with them. Kinda just throw it out at them, letting them know that you don't plan to expand on it, this is just a way of letting you and them know you are getting a reading that is dead on. Lin

napaea	08 Jun 2002
Thanks Faerie Lin, that helps. Sort of John Edwardy

Violet Gargoyle	10 Jun 2002
"Jon Edwardy" I love that. But really, it may be along those lines. Like a validation to the people that you read for, so that they know you are not practicing fiction on them. Something that people connect to will make them more likely to listen to you and/or take you seriously when the deeper stuff turns up.

napaea	11 Jun 2002
Violet: I haven't had any problems with telling people stuff, but that because I've only read my friends. None of them care if I say something personal. I've just gotten some pretty weird, ummm, saucy information, and I'm hoping I don't get this kind of information when I read for strangers! Anyway, thanks. Nap

Umbrae	11 Jun 2002
I think that the extraneous, intuitive, input is the whole reason to use cards in the first place! One of the reasons, that folks come to us, is to hear that which they cannot hear. So go ahead and tell them, “Do you need to use the restroom?” It may be just what they need to hear, so that when you provide them with warnings, they listen (folks are not real good at that).

napaea	13 Jun 2002
So true, Umbrae! But from good friends of mine, I've gotten some personal information (like their sexual habits) during readings. I don't really want to bring this kind of thing up to a stranger, but if it comes up (no pun intended) is it something I should say as a marker for them to know the reading is for THEM? Yikes, that just is too personal for a stranger. napaea

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