Last night my friend Domino came by to talk about upcoming projects, and we pulled out the tarot cards to get some insight.  I used to use the tarot a lot more than I do now. Ninety percent of my reading work is by phone the last few years, so it had been more than a year since I’d gotten out the cards.  I like using them when someone is face to face with me. Tarot cards give them a focus, I like the symbolism, and it gives me tips and reminders, like sticky notes. I’d given Domino readings in the past, so I got quickly in the vibe.

We began asking some yes and no questions and she said she really liked how I worded each question carefully.  Like, not “will we see a financial benefit to this joint venture of ours” but rather, “will we – by this date – see a financial benefit to this joint venture of ours in the format we envision it?”  Because a financial benefit could come 50 years down the road somehow, so if you took score at 2 years or 20 or 40, you wouldn’t see it.  So now, thirty years and who knows how many thousands of readings later, I have learned to ask very specific questions.  I know the answer I get will only be as detailed as the question I ask.  Just like other areas of life.

Often in the middle of an in-person tarot reading, I’ll want clarification and I’ll have a question off to the side (to “them” – whoever is answering) and I ask that in a yes or no format.  We had a lot of fun doing that.  And the more fun it becomes, the easier it is for info to flow. It’s like I let the gate down when it’s fun, which brings my (unconscious) resistance waaaaay down, which increases my transparency, which I find really aids in accuracy.  Then the fun stuff starts happening, like making Domino laugh when I pull a name out of her mind.

Using the yes or no format, if someone wants (more illusion of) privacy, I can also answer questions she is not asking, but that she is simply holding in mind.  The position of the cards tell me yes or no, and the cards themselves tell me the situation.  Plus whatever pops into my head as I’m doing it.  Last night seemed to be Name Nite, I was getting some good names.

Also, although we weren’t asking about that, relationship kept butting in for her, and two men as well.  Here we are trying to stay focused on our joint venture topic, and these dudes won’t give it a rest.  We shuffled and laid out the cards maybe a dozen times and the same 6-8 cards kept coming up again and again and again.  Surprise!

I suggested Domino study the tarot.  She’s in corporate America the past decade+, and she’s very intuitive and creative.  She knows to balance work with fun.  I gave her a copy of a Tarot Study Guide and Workbook I created years ago when I was teaching tarot classes. I also gave her an extra copy of Rachael Pollack‘s 78 Degrees of Wisdom, a fave of mine.  I was glad I had an extra copy since my original books were spines broken, underlined, highlighted, and cross indexed with notes in the margins.  And in plastic bags to keep the pages together, (yep, that’s how classy I am.)

She’ll play with the tarot for awhile then move onto other things, but when she comes back to it, she may no longer need it.  It will already have done its work on her.  Yep, just like osmosis.

I had so much fun with the cards that I’m going to begin using them again.