Tarot readers only please.. Problems with a reading?

Question

The other evening I was doing a reading for a friend who was in a highly emotional state. Her intense fear and saddness seemed to interfere with my ability to sense the cards. Has this happened to you? I had to stop the reading and come back to it a while later after I had cleared my mind of the emotional upheaval she was going through. Then It came together for me.

Answer 1

There are several degrading factors here which should be eliminated:

-your personal desires and fears towards the person you are doing the reading for. The more emotionally involved you are, the better the connection, but the worse the reading. Meditate to achieve neutrality.

-Possible transferal of her internal images onto the cards. Which is why when the person is in an agitated state I will lay them out for them instead of getting them to do it themselves. Possibly get your friend to meditate before picking the cards if she is a good meditator.

-Improperly washed cards may still contain traces of previous readings. Clean them energeticaly between questions, not just between sessions.

-Improper transferal or allignment of the cards energy with the person's energy. This can happen if you are doing the picking and dislike the person or are otherwise blocking them. It can also happen when the person is in a defensive state which will hamper all energetic contact. In the former send the person to another reader or find out and clear your dislike/struggle. In the later bypass energetic defences by placing the card directly on the apropriate chakra's/body parts of the person.

-Interference from spirits. Just like friends each spirit will have another strong opinion of how to solve the crisis. Unfortunately their various messages will create overspeak and muddled messages. Talk to her guides and work out the deal they can all show their opinions sequentially and do as many readings as there are opinion groups of guides.

-Influence/contagion of the reader. Some persons want the reader to say certain things and have the power to influence the reader. Stop them from this self-fulfilling prophecy loop by self-protection and getting them neutral through meditation. Many people seek to dump their problems through energetic connections, if you connect to them their bad energy/karma will flow to you protect yourself and teach them to stop doing this. Some healers actually use this technique to suck bad energies out of their clients, do this consciously, not subconsciously. There is always some change is your energetic body to make it more similar to the person, learn how to compensate for it's effects and if needed use protections or limit your connection to the person. also do not do this when your own energy is exhausted.

Answer 2

"Yahoo Lost AND Good Pirates (Betrayed in-BET-ween):

In The Year (Balabal), MeGot To An Alice In Wonderland Tea-Party (Highly EM. Estate That One, But let's Honestly Sch.....R -
"Hope You Got 'spelling' Right ?"; 'who cares now?'; "The Grand Folks" Were Out That Weekend AND Who IDo U Think Inherited THE Whole Domain For The Weekend... "Tralala Lalere..."

So All The Friends Going To Be Present/ That Afternoon, Knew there Would NOT Be, as You say, Prairie C. an "Intense Fear
And sadness" Which Would "Interfere With 'my' ability to Sense The Cards"), So We Had "A Good Tea-Party", Not Quite "The Great 'Displaced' Parties" 'Mecomesclosetoidolsbutnotquite". So There Were All Sorts: "If memay mention "Costumed Upheavals"... These very
"Charming/ arrogant?/unapproachable?" Jockers... (Couldn't be Bothered me "remembering" Now to The Whole World, Yes, That "TRULY" SYSTRUNGAR/Voluspa A JAMAIS,
"Hm, Hm, yes"
these Fun-Seekers Had some fun:
"There Was The Queen of Tarts" - Who Always Had a sadness, but IT Was
"Unkind" sometimes ; - Me Could Not Understand IT, But Then, "She Had Attached Her Title to Herself - "How ?" Well, Can't Tell You
Prairie, 'Coz "That Would Be Indiscreet AND Irrelevant"; Then, There Was "The Marshest of The Marsh Hare"; A 'Semi-Dieu' of a Professor ("Now, Now, Mortitia Adams..."}
Then There Was A little Girl, Dressed in The Cutest Alice's Dress, Headband, etc... Playing Happily And Very Content; There Was Even A "Big Alice", Dressed as Alice; And... An "Old Norse" Out of "Saint-Germain-des-Pres" - On Your Yahoo Q. "Add The Name Prairies".
(Mortitia A.: "Would You Sing That Song FrEdErIqUe C, You Know, About "MichelLE ?":
"Je Vais L'Aimer A Faire PaLiR Toooous les Marquis De Sade"
(?)... }
Then, There was A Young Funny Man - Met Him After We Had All Swum In An Abandoned Quarry - The Natural Water Colours Were Magnificent - Perhaps From ITS Minerals. The Water was very Deep - IT Must Have Had ITS Own Eco-System.
Going Up The Very Steep And Long Walk UP the Rocky Cliff,
We Both Sang: "Going To Las Vegas ! Las vegas... And Something About 'Rich kids takin' Care of Themselves 'coz
They Don't care much about anybody else..." The Band's Initials Are S.D. ? (But They said once they didn't like publicity - "Give Them a 4" And The Mate 00")

So, Back To The Young Chap - "Who Never Aged", You see, Never Had The Chance - And No "Nothing more Than friendship" Between US. After the Party, Me Tried To Read His Cards... "Then It Came Together For me".

Another Thing: Never Use A Tarot Pack Which Doesn't Belong To You - an emotional upheaval may occur within Oneself:
I: The Family
2: The Iroquois Gens
3:The Greek Gens
4:The Rise of The Athenian State
.................................
5:THE gens among Celts and Germans

(Mortitia A.: "Well, enough Windows for You F.C ?"
Addendum: "A Recently Discovered Case of Group Marriage"
(.)
"That's MeWill, Prairie The Legator: "Will Not Be Alone On Friday."
Grateful If You Could 'Read IT" for me. (We never ever have e-mailed - no need - You may leave IT Here - If You .................)

May It All Come Together.
Last Respects Grand Wizard...

Answer 3

Ms Crone,
Doing a reading with the highly charged energy of emotional turmoil will ALWAYS interfere with a reading. If a person is in that state, the reading should always be psotponed until the client is in a more stable frame of mind. The same could be said for a client who is violently ill as well (the only exception being for a chronically ill person).

I find it useful to begin a session witha short period of conversationand a little tea to calm the client down and avoid any discussion of events that may have brought about turmoil in the first place. Distraction is usually the BEST way to prevent negative energies from clouding a reading. that even helps when you are dealing with a sceptical client as well. Once they realize that you ARE proficient at what you do and can find confidence in your abilities and skill theysettle down enough for a good reading to begin. If they are TOO engaged in their emotional state then you may have to have them return some other time when they are NOT so emotional.

BB,
Raji the Green Witch

Answer 4

i read runes, (sometimes tarot but not often.)

on a few occasions i have fund that a person in an extreme emotional state can cloud the readings. make it very difficult to discern what is going on..

i believe this is because divination really just tries to look at the future state of a present energy. that is my theory anyway. and it makes sense. (well at least to me)

a person in an extreme emotional state may have a very foggy or possibly very short future. thus it can be hard to read it.

in these cases i usually do another reading when they are more stable.

Answer 5

I will have to agree 100% with pixie, I don't read Tarot very much anymore, as my mind is not as it was, when I was young..
I think that you did take on your friends emotional baggage and that has put a complete mist between your psychic ability and the cards...
Similar to doing energy work, as you take all the "crap" away from someone, you take it on, and you have to get rid of it...
Staying grounded is paramount, as you would know...
Hopefully you will get an answer from someone who is far more experienced in these matters...
Blessed Be... )O(

Answer 6

Oh, yeah. Her energy completely effected the reading. As her friend, you shared some of that energy, and you're just not going to get a good reading in those conditions. As you know, you are a better channel when your energy is calm and clear.

Answer 7

I don't read anymore.

But yeah that is understandable, I often had times when due to their emotional state or sometimes for seemingly no reason at all I couldn't get a good read.

Answer 8

Reading for a family member or close friend is always more challenging than reading for someone you are not close to for reasons already offered by "pixie" and "aussie witch." It's common practice for doctors not to treat their family and close friends. . . I sometimes wonder if we (as Tarot readers) shouldn't read for our family and close friends too. Staying grounded is essential. Holding a piece of tumbled hemitite in my hand helps me stay grounded as I do readings for people I am close to.

Answer 9

seems like you were identifying with this friend. almost as if you took her problems and made them your own and so were not able to do an unbiased reading. i've found it's easier to do readings for strangers than for people with whom we are involved emotionally because besides having to open ourselves as channels for the information, intuition etc, while remaining unbiased.
there might also be the element of wanting to please your friend, worrying about if what you'll say will make her emotional state better or worse, etc.

Answer 10

you are able to't see into the destiny. We exist in a dynamic temporal continuum. The timeline is formed by utilising the movements of nondeterministic remember/potential structures. loose will precludes the potential for predestination.