10 Powerful Tips for Professional Tarot Card Readers

by David Swift Content Crafter

Tarot Card Reading and How it Works

Tarot card reading is the practice of using tarot cards to gain insight into the past, present, or future by formulating a question, then drawing the tarot cards and interpreting them. It is a kind of cartomancy which essentially means fortune-telling and practitioners of cartomancy are generally known as cartomancers, card readers, or simply reader.

Tarot card readers use a deck of 78 cards, each with its own imagery, symbolism, and story. The 22 Major Arcana cards represent life’s karmic and spiritual lessons and the 56 Minor Arcana cards reflect the trials and tribulations that we experience daily.

Garima Goyal, the professional tarot card reader in Gurgaon, claims tarot readings to be the storybook of someone’s life, the mirror to their soul, and the key to inner wisdom.

Professional tarot card readers are completely in sync with their intuition that allows them to interpret hidden and often deep secrets, and it takes years of practice and patience to reach those levels of trusting your intuition. There are plenty of tips available to hone your tarot card reading skills, so let’s discuss the top ten.

10 Powerful Tips for Professional Tarot Card Readers

Know Yourself - It is important for professional tarot card readers to be able to tap into their own subconscious and hone their ability to correctly interpret the intuitive answers. This can be achieved in many ways, the most powerful being meditation. One of the best ways to do this is to sit in a dark room with just a lit candle and look at the flame while concentrating on your breathing. This method increases the stillness of your mind and helps you concentrate on your inner voice.
Know the Meaning of the Tarot Cards - As obvious as this may be, it is very important to be able to read the cards without hesitation or looking into a book. Although with time your intuition and experience will grow and your unique relationship with the cards will blossom, but first, you must understand the nuanced meaning of each card in different placements and in relation to different topics.
Don’t worry if you Draw a blank while Interpreting - Though it a rare occurrence, there might be times that you draw a blank / can’t think of a meaningful interpretation when a card is laid out. When this happens, you must have your own techniques and strategies in place to be implemented when these blanks occur. The best method is to not think about it too much and continue drawing cards and try and draw a connection with the blank.
Get comfortable with 3 card spreads - Learning to connect the card and not just interpret each card is the cornerstone of good tarot card readings. You must get comfortable with three card spreads for a 15-minute reading and be able to interpret complex and short questions.
Ability to Synthesize the cards - The true art of reading is when the reader takes all the cards in all their positions and tells the story of the layout in relation to the question. The synthesis is where your intuition and practice with the cards come together to help your client understand the broader scope of their question.
Know how to do entire readings - Professional tarot card reading is no different from other consumer-focussed businesses. It is highly important to try and understand your clients and gain enough familiarity for correct interpretations. Hone the quality of your initial questions to achieve this.
Know what kind of tarot card reader you are - With practice and experience, you shall understand more about the kind of tarot card reader you are. Are you more comfortable with complex questions, do you have a personal philosophy about tarot cards that others don’t, or are more comfortable dealing with illness-related readings? This insight shall give you more control over your interpretations.
Practice with strangers - Practice does make perfect or in this as close to a perfect interpretation as can be. The more you practice the more advanced your skills will become and help to develop that special relationship between the cards and you.
Have strategies for difficult or disappointed clients - It’s not humanely possible to please every client and there will be times a client is unhappy with the readings. It is very important then to have the ability to diffuse the situation and calmly deal with the client.
The ability to interpret the missing cards - You may not find all the answers that you are looking for from the laid outspread and in these situations, it is important to look out for missing cards that may indicate the absence of certain emotions or feelings that need to be included in the interpretation.