Tarot reading for Divine Guidance
Tarot Reading and Divine Guidance.
Most of us would agree we come to a tarot reading looking for guidance of some sort. And given that it’s so hard to explain how the cards so accurately reflect what is going on in our lives, or bring such pertinent insight, wisdom and guidance, I reckon it deserves to be called Divine Guidance.
For a long time I have lived with the idea that life is a co-creation. A co-creation between each of us as individuals and the ‘divine’, a catch all word I use to include the great mystery of our world, the earth, the universe, cosmos, galaxy.
And that imagination is the key ingredient. And Love. Imagination having the Imagination to imagine that there is a power greater than ourselves and Love the desire to connect to this universal source and together co-create.
There are so many quotes from the great and the good about the power of imagination. It was Einstein considered one of the greatest minds we have known who said ‘ Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand’.
As I understand it, it begins with Love, the desire to connect to this Divine source of Love and Imagination is the conduit with sincere Intention.
For years and I still do, start my morning with a prayer, intention, invocation, that goes like this…
Dear Guides, Guardian Angels and the God Love Source Energy I give intent to connect to you to be of service (I do not know for a fact that any of this exists)…..to love, to joy, to kindness, to creativity, to laughter, to making the world a happier place, you get the gist. It depends on the day. The idea is that the combination of asking for Grace and Divine guidance and by declaring my intention, life meets me half way and I become a conduit for these qualities.
The way I interpret this is that I am tapping into a collective field wherein lies a universal source of intelligence that has been created by the generations. In the context of Tarot the archetypal imagery and symbols illustrated on the cards are part of a larger collective consciousness and have over time built up a resonant energy due to the countless readings and interactions with human consciousness.
And so when we or a professional tarot reader interprets a spread, they are tuning into this collective resonance of meaning as well as tapping into larger patterns of shared knowledge, emotions and experiences across humanity. Rupert Sheldrake was the first to call this ‘morphic resonance’.
A great teacher I had the priviledge to work with, Bert Hellinger who was the founder of Family constellations, used the idea of morphic resonance to communicate and heal generational wounds. He used to say ‘Ask for Grace to smell the sweet nectar of your presence’.
In chaotic and terrible times, I salvage feelings of impotence and hopelessness by imagining that by holding the energy of love and possibility, kindness and peacefulness, at least I am passing on these qualities as a soothing balm. More and more I find myself avoiding heated discussions about how wrong and unfair the world is as then I get caught up in that energy and feelings of angst, stress, hopelessness, and start spreading that vibe…and I fully admit that may be a cop out but equally so often discussions become so divisive. And as a consequence we are putting that energy out into the ‘field’.
It's also because I’m not a good at articulating my thoughts in an argument. The emotion seems to destroy my ability for logic and reason. And then I get more frustrated and emotional.
At the start of a tarot reading I put a silent request into the ether that my reading will be helpful and also the name of the person I am reading, quite often out loud, as I believe in the power of the word. And that our names have power. I frequently say my morning ‘prayer’ out loud too. I use the word prayer not because I am religious but because I like the sense of humbleness and devotion that comes with the word.
Did I mention including Gratitude? I think a whole essay needs to written about the power of gratitude, the power of the imagination, the power of movement, of lighting a candle. So much magic in the air. According to this idea the more tarot is used, the stronger the resonance becomes, enhancing the connection between the reader, the cards, and the querent.
Do come and have a reading with me in person or on line. It is my privilege.