the Science of Psychotherapy and Counselling and this equipped me with a deep and scientific understanding of the human mind and enabled me to understand my clients’ needs beyond just pure tarot reading.
Today Tarot is an intrinsic part of my life and my experience as Tarot Reader gives me the confidence and knowledge to write this book. It is not just a medium to predict the future but a different way of life. As a student and practitioner of Tarot I have learnt that there is more to an individual than just his/her future. As a Reader I don’t just predict the future for my clients but try to equip them, through my intuitive future forecasts, with knowledge of what awaits them and how they can shape their future with this foreknowledge. Tarot gets you to where you want to be. My experience over the years has shown me it is not just the readings that draw people back to me but the whole process of change that Tarot offers. Besides readings, Tarot gives you a new way to handle life by guiding you not only through predictions for the future but also by equipping you with the means to address this future.
The Tarot way encourages and enables a deep understanding of the self that no other medium does. Spirituality is this deep sense of understanding of one’s inner being. Tarot gives you the power to get in touch with this side and change your destiny by thinking beyond the usual ways and means, beyond your mind’s restricted thought processes. Tarot takes you to your soul; it opens doors to the pure spiritual energy which we all have but is experienced by only a few. Tarot does this for you through me, your Reader; I am the path, Tarot the way, and the spiritual awakening the light. With my understanding of the scientific mind and spiritual knowledge, awakening you from within you becomes a simple and enjoyable process. Once you touch this inner spirit, there is nothing that can stop you from creating your own destiny.
The purpose of Tarot, and therefore my purpose in this book, is to lead you to your spiritual being and unlock your latent powers. Tarot is in a way the holy trinity—it is the future, the change, and the spiritual destiny.
Today I am not just a Tarot reader but a spiritual guide and a qualified counsellor. This was the metamorphosis the old woman had predicted. I had begun my journey in pursuit of material gains and small successes. Today I know my destiny, my purpose. It is to reach out to you, to show you what’s in your destiny, to guide you through it gently and counsel you through life’s difficulties, to help you reconnect with your soul, your true spirit, and to reveal your ultimate purpose. In this book, you will find all this laid out before you through ‘Future Predictions’, ‘Spiritual Reading’ for the year ahead and ‘The Author’s note’.
Welcome to the magical, mystical and alluring world of Tarot and its readings for your past, present and future.
Before we delve into Tarot, how it works, and what it can do for you, there are some other important facts that you must know. Tarot is a powerful medium used for many reasons. These reasons could be good or bad depending on how one uses it and how the other perceives it. For me, Tarot is the magic that happened several years ago. The woman who brought this magic into my life was some kind of a gypsy whom I will probably never forget. I recall my first experience as I was getting my first tarot reading done from her. She was as mystical as Tarot itself. She brought this interesting aura to Tarot which lured me into getting the reading done rather than the tarot cards themselves. Somehow the whole gypsy presentation was fascinating to me, exciting.
I am certain you too have a similar impression about Tarot, at least before you read this book. A lot of myths go into the making of Tarot. These myths are both interesting and fascinating and I would like to dispel them one by one by giving you the true essence of the reader and the Tarot Cards.
Myth: Tarot is done only/mostly by Gypsies. It is Gypsies who created Tarot.
Fact: Tarot is, was, and can be practised by any normal person who has a heightened sense of intuition and has mastered the art of reading tarot cards through practice and meditation. Tarot is neither limited to Gypsies nor was it created by them. The myth developed because in the olden times, Tarot was very often seen with Gypsies. Gypsies used the tarot decks as playing cards and were responsible for bringing them into Europe. It travelled with them from place to place and thus became associated with gypsy lives. Tarot was used by gypsies but mainly for playing games. Its occultism emerged after it travelled down from them to various other parts of the world. Although today Tarot is used by everyone, we tend to see and remember the most impressionable of our experiences, one like mine. Gypsies provide a dark and mystical presentation of Tarot, which makes it easy perhaps to associate Tarot with them.
Myth: Tarot is Black magic
Fact: Tarot is the prediction of one’s life through plain aura reading. Over the years, due to its association with gypsies, magic, dark energy and negative elements, it came to be identified with black magic. Throughout history, various religious institutions have wanted to keep the power and control of human life in their own hands. This caused them to banish tarot and create negative speculation about it, thus discouraging people from using Tarot for predictions and using it instead only as a plaything. Powerful religious institutions didn’t want the power of the future and positive belief to be handed over to the common man as they feared loss of trust and control. Tarot gives you the power to change your destiny by foretelling what’s in store for you and this shall be revealed in the forthcoming chapters of this book. From this it is evident that Tarot is no black magic but simple intuition and aura reading which gives it a certain magical quality due to its predictive quotient.
Myth: Tarot is Witchcraft
Fact: Tarot is purely energy and aura reading. In keeping with the tradition of condemning anything that was not in line with their religious beliefs, powerful institutions down the ages tarnished Tarot’s name by calling it negative, black magic and dark energy so as to dissuade the common man from knowing its true power and potential, the potential which gives one control and mastery over one’s destiny. These religious institutions successfully banished tarot by calling it Witchcraft, devilish and occultist, and thus people were discouraged from relying on these mediums for guidance, depending completely instead on religious and dogmatic practices.
Myth: Tarot connects you with spirits, the supernatural.
Fact: Tarot is not a medium through which one can connect to the spirits of the dead or the supernatural. Planchet is the known technique used to call upon the spirits and is largely criticised by sceptics and critics. Tarot cards do not have the power to connect with spirits or the supernatural. It may finally boil down to the Tarot reader’s ability, the psychic’s power to perform such an action but most definitely not of Tarot per se.
Some people are gifted and have the skill or power to do the impossible; calling upon spirits may be one such skill. Tarot has no such power to call upon spirits whether from the underworld or from heaven. Tarot is associated with this myth due to its connection with the wicca, occult practitioners and other experts who use it as a medium to reveal the unknown in their own expert ways. The reader’s power will eventually transcend into the cards and turn them into a tool in the expert’s hands.
Myth: Tarot is dark, negative and devilish
Fact: How one uses any given tool makes it negative or devilish. If the power of Tarot is used to foretell your destiny and manifest the change needed, it is unarguably positive. On the other hand, when it is misused to harm people through incorrect practices and wrong ethics of the reader, these Tarot cards can become devilish and dark. It ultimately boils down to the charioteer who rides the chariot; the chariot
