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26 Aug

How Often Should You Have Your Tarot Cards Read?

Posted by lucyd     Category: How To/How Do?

Over the years I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon. A skeptical person will come to me to get his cards read. I’ll give him a good reading. He’ll be astonished, and tell all his friends, and then WHAM! – he’s calling me ready to schedule again. And again. And again.

If you read cards, I know you’ve experienced this. If you’ve had a good reading as a client, you know that feeling, too. And there IS a temptation to get your cards read too often.

So, how often is too often?

I am a firm believer that the only one with power in our lives is US. We can’t blame our boss, our children, our spouse or the boogeyman; for the things we don’t like, we are tired of, we just plain can’t stomach anymore.

Hate your job? Only you can find a new one. Children driving you crazy? Only you can lay down the law – or get a sitter! Just because we are in the drivers’ seat in our own lives doesn’t mean it’s easy to get to the destination we’re aiming for. And it also doesn’t mean we know how to get there. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in a problem we think there’s no way out.

That is the moment that a reading can be invaluable.

So take the tools you received in the reading and go out there and make some changes. Here’s the problem: Sometimes what you learn in a reading is really astonishing! How could the reader have known about your private life? About that secret you never told anyone?

Ahhh, there’s the rub! It seems like a magic trick and we want to see it again. Or, it can have the same effect as an ad for the newest diet pill on someone trying to lose weight. It APPEARS that we can get to our destination without having to do the heavy lifting! Yay!

Did you ever notice that those new, super-duper diet pills come with these instructions: in addition to taking the pills, you must also follow a low fat, low carb diet and you must exercise regularly?

Well, my friends, if you want a good reading, you must do the actual work of your life yourself. Don’t be distracted by the fact that your situation can be read in the cards. You must take what you’ve learned, apply the tools you’ve been given, plant the seeds for change, and stay on that course.

It’s true that every time you make a choice, your possible future outcomes change, too. But unless you give yourself at least 30 days to see the fruits of your change-making behavior, you are doing yourself a disservice.

You wouldn’t tug on a new shoot in the garden in hopes of making it grow faster.

If you step on the scale every day, it seems like you’re not losing weight—even when you’re doing all the right things.

And if you get frequent tarot card readings you have stopped working on your life, and given up your power to the reader. Very likely the exact reason you came to her in the first place.

Make a commitment to yourself. When you get a good, solid, professional Tarot Card Reading, you will not schedule another for 30 days. See? You’re in charge already!

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23 Aug

Winner of the August Contest!

Posted by lucyd     Category: Contest Winners

Yesterday I had the pleasure of reading for Nancy, the winner of my monthly FREE Tarot Reading Contest. I am so glad she won! Nancy had a very intense situation going on in her life, and when our reading was finished, I told her that her situation illustrates just why the Tarot is so useful. She has some big challenges coming up, but I was able to see how it was setting up to unfold. Now that she has a picture of how the situation is set up, it doesn’t have to be such an upset. She received some GREAT tools for herself going into the situation, and will not be a sitting duck for the hairy scary monster under the bed.

Congratulations on winning the drawing, Nancy, and thank you for the testimonial. Your reading made my day!

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18 Aug

I Need a Reading RIGHT NOW!

Posted by lucyd     Category: How To/How Do?

Have you ever said those words? I certainly have. Sometimes I can get so caught up in the details of my life that I focus in on the ‘forest’ instead of the ‘themes.‘ What’s important to remember here is your emotions: where are they? Are you wearing them on your sleeve? Do you find it hard to think straight because all of all the cacophony in your brain? Can your friends tell by looking at you what’s on your mind? Yes, yes, we’ve all been there.

So – is this a good time to get a tarot card reading? In most cases, the answer is “no.” This anxious period that we’ve all experienced is what I call “transition time.” When crazy feelings like the ones I mentioned abound, you are most likely right in the deep center of going through a change. The wheels are turning – you’re moving from the known to the unknown. You’re scared.

In reality, though, most of what you’re going through is already finished, and it’s that last break from your old self and your known issues that can scare you the most. So, what will a tarot card reading do for you at this very point in time? Well, first of all, your questions are probably the wrong ones. In this state of acute uncomfortableness you may think that you have not yet made the change you saw coming. The reality is, it’s all over but the shouting. To make those nervous feelings go away, we will all tend to ask questions like: “When will <my problem> be over?” Questions of ‘when’ are moot at this point.

Instead, take a moment and think of the theme of your life. Before, maybe you were single – and now you’ve fallen in love – and you’re not prepared to admit how much it scares you. Or perhaps before you were an employee – and now you are the employer – and the stack of unknowns in front of you are dizzying. Try to put your finger on the new theme in your life. Imagine you are not on the threshold of that theme, but down the road a way. Now, you’ll have questions that are more concrete, and that will deliver more satisfying answers should you decide to get your cards read.

Timing is everything, and just because we want, or think we need something RIGHT NOW, doesn’t make it our best choice. Our lives are what they are. Let’s not give our power away when we are perfectly capable of getting through a transition time gracefully. Those transition times are when we actually define who we are most completely. Not even the best tarot card reader in the world can do that for us.

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