Haunted Wood
Well, I believe that the answers come from both within myself and my spirit guide. Who or what my spirit guide is exactly I'm not sure, but I feel that I have one. When I'm shuffling I tend to ask my spirit guide to give me the answers, and to help me interpret the cards intuitively and rationally. But I also believe that a great deal of the answers come from within myself. It's kind of hard to explain. I'm with ofbainbridge, that the answers come from everything in a way, because everything is connected. I believe in synchronicity too, and that we receive the messages that we're meant to receive, whether through a tarot reading, a song playing on the radio, a dream...depending of course on how open we are to receiving these messages. There have been times when I've asked my spirit guide to give me sign, and I've been given one. Who gives us these messages, I'm not sure exactly. I tend to think the universe, or the Something Greater that's out there, as well as spirit guides who watch over us and send us messages and signs from time to time. I've never contacted the spirit realm intentionally during a reading though.