Clients of a tarot reader want a happy ending — too bad if the cards don’t deliver one…
I am a tarot reader.
An honourable profession.
After all, tarot cards originated in the 15th century, during the Renaissance — first as a card game. Two hundred years later, once the 22 Major Arcana had been added, they became a tool for divination as well.
And people who professionally create forecasts about the future have probably been doing so since the beginning of humanity.
Because the desire to know what life will bring is written into us as a species. Our thoughts and feelings revolve around our “self” — its wishes, hopes, fears and anxieties.
That is why people come to have their cards read: they want to hear that everything will turn out well.
Unfortunately, life does what it wants. Reliable happy endings only exist in Hollywood films.
That is the greatest challenge of my profession…
Like every good tarot reader, I had teachers. First, the excellent Ziegler. Second, my beloved card reader Traudl from Lower Bavaria.
I loved her absurd stories about stubborn, deluded clients!
I often laughed until I cried when she — with her incomparable dry wit — recounted dialogues from card reading sessions. Anonymised, of course. We tarot readers are bound by confidentiality.
That was the theme that preoccupied Traudl most: clients who simply refused to accept that life cannot be forced.
And that a tarot reader is not a good fairy waving a magic wand, but an interpreter of one’s own life.
A life for which one bears responsibility oneself — and which one creates anew in every single moment.
The days when I found these stories funny are long gone.
That was before I myself began reading cards professionally for others.
By now I have been working as a tarot reader for some time.
And I am regularly confronted with the problem that people contact me because they want to hear from me that their wishes will come true.
Quite often this works: the reading shows exactly what people are hoping for.
That is wonderful — for the client and for me alike.
The client is happy — and I have had a relaxed session.
However, I am usually contacted when things are not going the way they should.
Most clients already know that they are facing considerable obstacles and resistance.
And that there is a risk that things will not turn out as hoped.
When the sober reality then literally “lies on the table”, it is still a great shock for most people.
After all, they had contacted me — and paid me — to soothe their fears.
To create trust in a positive future.
When I cannot offer that, many clients are deeply disappointed.
As I said: dealing with this professionally is the greatest challenge of my strange profession…
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