So this is a question for all the tarot readers professional and amateur out there.
What do you do when a reader asks you a question that you can't answer and/or doesn't align with your style?
For example as a general counsel/advise sort of reader, I generally can't answer questions about court cases, pregnancy. And then there are obscure questions like, 'what is the first letter of my next husband?', or where can i find my lost ring? lol. I mean, those questions have me stumped at the best of times! What response do you give?
Just be honest and tell them.
There are two kinds of questions related to that topic: 1) you can't answer it as it is against your moral values to ask the question or 2) no answer comes up when you try.
But my answer is the same, just tell them. I have had querents ask me questions that did not feel "right/moral" for me to ask. I just tell them I don't feel I can ask that and why. And suggest something related that I could ask for them if they like. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But as a reader we need to know our values, when someone is asking us to cross a line, and well ...to not go there.
Court cases...come under that category for me. I don't believe in asking the cards a question best answered by a professional in another field. I won't ask on legal advice, medical advice, psychological advice. If someone really needs that kind of advice they are best seeking a real lawyer, doctor or therapist. Not only that but a reader can get sued if they give that kind of advice and are wrong and someone is harmed by following it.
If they ask you something that does not align with your style. EG they want to know where their ring is of the first initial of their husband and you don't usually get that kind of info, I would just tell them that the cards don't tend to talk to you in that way or give you that kind of info. Then tell them the kind of info your cards do give you and try to redirect them to a question in that area.
These are things that you should tell them before you start the reading. Or in other words don't do a reading on a topic that doesn't feel right to you or on the kind of question you feel you can't do justice to.
Sometimes also the cards just will not answer at all and that can be because the querent has asked something they are not meant to know right now. That happens too. I've had it a few times. When I sense that is what is happening I just tell them that the cards are not answering that question, and that the cards are just saying that it is not in the their (the querent's) best interest to have that answer right now and so they won't tell them. Sometimes there are karmic lessons the person has to learn from figuring things out on their own. When this is the case the cards will not tell them what they asked. I've had that a few times. I saw in the cards that was what was up.
Again just tell them that. Sometimes it means reimbursing them if they paid. But it happens and if that is what we see then that is what we need to tell them. What we see in the cards is what we need to tell them. Even if we see the cards saying that they will not answer as the querent is not meant to know that right now.
I think overall, what I am saying LOL, is just to be honest with them and tell them just what's up
Babs