Girl Archer
Absolutely, I have a Tarot business based on that fact. I only read remotely, via e-mail. I never see the querent, or know anything about them except for their question. I have never met anyone I read for and know nothing about them. All i ask is their first name and if the question is about their relationship with someone else I need their first name or initials and that's it.
And it works very well. Ive often been told my readings are "scary accurate".
I don't know about 7 soulmates. A soulmate is to me just someone whom you have probably known in other lifetimes and have a close bond with and with whom your souls have agreed to share something deep in this lifetime. Some people only meet up with one in their lives, some don't at all. I feel like I have had a couple already.
What I connect too? Personally, I never try to connect ot the querent anyway or to anyone invilved in the question. For me, and this differs from person to person, when I read I try to connect to the Divine...Divination , for me, is a communcation with the Divine. In my belief system it is my angels whom I am talking with and who know all , past, present and future. Actually, I do on occasion read for close friends. But that is ever harder because I know them. And I have to keep our connection out of it. It is still about tryingto connect to the Divine for me. So what I do know about them can be a hindreance and colour things if I dont try to keep that out of my mind. I need to be like a blank slate to hear clealry what is being told to me as the answer, not to have other beliefs and thoghts floating around, if you know what I mean. It is harder to read for someone I know for me actually. It can be done of course, but it is harder, It means I have to make an effort to keep my mind clear of the poersonal stuff, when with a stranger I do not have to make that effort.
Spreads? I almost never ever use em. I prefer not to.
Babs
Wow, it is great that you give such accurate readings. My problem with reading for friends (and I only read for myself and friends, I don't do it as a business or anything) is I know their situation beforehand and whatever I say will sound like I am trying to push them into doing what I want them to do, and not what the cards mean. I have even given the LWB to a couple of them skeptics, and because so often the meaning given there changes a little bit, and we cannot explain ill dignified and all that to friends, it becomes a tad messy. All said and done, I don't think I should have read for the person in question. A better way of phrasing her question might have been "What should I do in order to attract the kind of love/relationship that I want?" but then again, I can't force my hand on phrasing people's questions though I have seen many a reader do that on TV. The problem I faced in that particular scenario is that an incurable romantic that my friend is, she refers to the "love of her life" as her "soulmate" = the guy she will marry and be with happily ever after and the likes of it... So, how do you even know who you are addressing in these kind of readings right?