The traditional art of Tarot divination is complex and meaningful. It is a learned skill that is also an intuitive art, and the best readers are grounded in both aspects. It takes approximately a decade's constant study and practice to reach a masterful and flexible level of expertise.
Knowledge and Skill The Tarot cards is a system of symbols with multivalent meanings, depending on the structure they are used. Proficiency and skill in using the Tarot for divination and description requires constant practice and dedication. Each of the 78 cards in a Tarot deck carries a particular basic meaning, as most people are aware. But each card also has 'reversed' meanings, and subtleties of meaning, depending upon how it is positioned in a spread, and which cards are adjacent to it. The significance of each card has several layers of meaning and relationship. (Sometimes, when reading, Diana actually 'sees' a stacking of these layers above the flat cards on the table in front of her, like a game of three dimensional chess.) Particular combinations of cards also indicate universal or generic types of events. The Tarot can describe the nuts and bolts of daily life, as well as the most rarefied, abstract spiritual concepts and archetypes. It can describe the sublime and the ridiculous! In the first years of learning Tarot, a student does a great deal of memorising and practising; truly exceptional readers, those like Diana, had a thoroughly grounding in their first three years, with much study, practical work and memorisation. Established mastery is achieved after about a decade; it takes that long to become familiar with identifying and assimilating patterns and collective symbolism. |  |
The Tarot is central in the Western mystical tradition, so it also requires knowledge of neo-Platonic Kabbalah, or the Western Mystery Tradition. This spiritual cosmology, non-denominational but intellectually challenging, is taught in mystery orders. Going back centuries to the Renaissance, it particularly flourished in orders such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and its successor orders. The Western Mystery Tradition stresses the life journey of each individual as series of lessons, so a traditional Tarot reader will describe her work as that of spiritual vocation - a calling to serve the spiritual growth of others, whilst at the same time striving to perfect her own self.
Intuitive Ability
The best Tarot consultants have psychic or mediumistic sensitivity as well as knowledge; when harnessed and grounded in tarot reading, these abilities are channelled into readings that are specific, multi-dimensional, illuminating and accurate. Diana initially looked into Tarot as a way to channel and work with psychic and spiritual phenomena that were occurring around and to her when she was a very young woman. The complexity and rigour of the Tarot tradition appealed to her intellect, and its sheer effectiveness impressed her. It made her psychic abilities useful to others, and offered her a deep mystical life. Fifteen years after immersing herself in the intensive study, she is more passionate about it than ever.
Here's some of the issues that a traditional tarot reading can help with, and here are the private reading options. Click here for readings at events.
Intuitive Ability
The best Tarot consultants have psychic or mediumistic sensitivity as well as knowledge; when harnessed and grounded in tarot reading, these abilities are channelled into readings that are specific, multi-dimensional, illuminating and accurate. Diana initially looked into Tarot as a way to channel and work with psychic and spiritual phenomena that were occurring around and to her when she was a very young woman. The complexity and rigour of the Tarot tradition appealed to her intellect, and its sheer effectiveness impressed her. It made her psychic abilities useful to others, and offered her a deep mystical life. Fifteen years after immersing herself in the intensive study, she is more passionate about it than ever.
Here's some of the issues that a traditional tarot reading can help with, and here are the private reading options. Click here for readings at events.
