Uh well I agree with some previous posters and disagree with others.
Yes – learn to do your readings speaking aloud.
Now here’s the gig…what spread would you be doing with live paid readings for strangers? Keltic Kross? Five or Seven Card Horseshoe? You have to do the same thing… One does not audition for a Wagner opera by singing Paul Simon covers. You have to show the store owner what you’re about.
You have to be honest. With yourself – and the owner. She’s hiring you. Even if you don’t work for her, and just sit at a table in a back corner and give her a cut – whatever the financial arrangements are – you become a reflection of what she wants her store to be, and represent.
So stick with the spreads you’d be doing live (and that means more than three cards).
Do NOT separate the deck into majors and minors (unless you read this way already). Why? Cuz if I were hiring you – I’d ask why…and you’d better have a dang good answer (I cannot think of one reason why anybody’d do this – and I’ve been at this game for three decades).
Begin over-hydrating a day in advance.
Ground yerself.
Don’t practice every moment between now and then – you WILL drive yourself into a panic attack, and have a selph phulfilling prophecy of phailure (guaranteed and no you don’t get your money back). It’s putting too much pressure on yourself.
It's a test - true, it’s only reading the Tarot. But you need to be real, and be honest.
And for my own personal opinion – you really need months of reading for strangers for gratuity and/or no remuneration before you step into the professional arena. That said, I’ve seen some move from online to professional with problems.
It depends on the time spent reading – really really reading….
PS: and if you go blank...hunt down an essay I wrote ages ago titled, "
The Blank Spot.