On Thursday evening, a group of us gathered to work with tarot and I presented some ideas on how to work interactively over the cards. Our time together began with a quote by Mary Greer:
“A reading is interactive when all those involved act together and have a dynamic effect on each other. This includes the reader, querent, the cards, and the figures on the cards.” (21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card, page xii)
Participants offered short consultations to one other while working in a more conversational style rather than a “talking at you” style. Here are the Tips for Interactive Tarot Sessions that I shared with the group:
- Make sure that you and readee/querent are in agreement about the intent or focus of the session.
- Listen with attention and without judgement.
- Speak with intention and without judgement.
- Invite the readee to remember that this is a dialogue, to join you in speaking with intention and listening with attention.
- Let the readee know that the details of the tarot conversation will remain confidential.
- Be curious. Keep the flow going by asking honest, open-ended questions.
- Balance your knowledge of the cards with fresh observations about them in the moment.
- Come back to the cards. It’s easy to stray from the focus, so remember that the cards and the characters/symbols on them are also partners in the conversation.
- Summarise or synthesise the tarot conversation and/or ask the readee to do so.
- Remember that the readee is the ultimate authority on hir life.
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