Some people resist tarot thanks to Hollywood. They’ll show a scene of the main character going to a brick and mortar with bright purple neon lights that say “Psychic.” Then they’ll enter into a candle lit room where a woman (almost always!) Who is dressed like a gypsy welcomes you to read your cards. 99 % of the time she’ll pull a scary death card. So dramatic right!? Well to tell you the truth the death card actually means the ending or finalization of something in your life; the end of a chapter per se. Well guess what? We all experience closures through out our lives, it’s a natural cycle and part of being human in this world. Each season must have its death before the next is born. Ok so I’m getting too metaphorical here.
My point is, that Tarot helps tell the story of a situation in your life, it’s like seeing through someone else's eyes. It doesn’t invoke the devil, raise the dead, and you won't go to "hell"or anything like that. Rumor has it, gypsies where the ones who brought the cards from Egypt, but in reality this was a creation of the Italians! Yes, tarot started as a parlor game among the Italians! Well, it wasn’t long before some started noticing the correlation between the cards and their own lives. Some of the elite decided to get some power from these cards and decided to make the cards hard to read by commissioning artists to make their own set with pictures that only they understood. Unfortunately, those pictures came with fear based visuals that were not too enticing! Thank God for Radleigh Valentine, and Doreen Virtue who decided to make their own set of cards by making them with lovely art and good intentions. It was such a pleasure meeting them both and learning how to do readings professionally myself! And although they’ve gone their separate ways, I’m so thankful for them fulfilling that part of their life purpose for some of us!
