Reading Tarot
By Paul Fenton-Smith
"Don't you have to be psychic to read the tarot?" is a question I'm often asked. The tarot is such a carefully designed system that you don't need intuition to read the cards.
If you learn the card meanings, you can give practical and accurate tarot readings without intuition. In fact you don't even need a tarot pack.
When my first tarot book was published in 1995 a friend who had the book but no cards often referred to it by tossing it into the air while thinking of her question. She'd catch it and open it at random, reading about the card described on that page and relating it to her question. If the book was upside down, she'd treat the card as reversed and read the reversed card meaning from the text.
Much of the accuracy of a tarot reading is in the wording of the question. A vague or ambiguous question usually results in a confusing answer. This means that serious issues may require a series of questions to result in a clear answer.
My new book Tarot Masterclass has a complete questions menu, consisting of 54 questions grouped into headings such as relationships, health, career, finances, spiritual development and happiness.
Originally designed to help clients to form clear, concise questions, the menu proved so popular that it was stolen from my waiting room four times in 24 months. Now that the menu is available in Tarot Masterclass, I hope to retain the copy of the menu in my waiting room.
