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Divining with the Tarot

The Tarot reader moves into an altered consciousness, called a "flow" state. Attention, activity, and involvement are intensely focused without regard for a particular objective. The self-forgetfulness concentrates skill, knowledge, and subliminal awareness at the service of the patterns that emerge in answer to the client’s question. What results is a highly creative state that dissociates from the normal personalities involved to weave new patterns and stories through a heightened awareness. Tarot reading is a game, played with symbols ("archetypal Tinkertoys") that have a more than personal power. The results of this game include a feeling of connection and spiritual renewal as well as astoundingly accurate predictions. It develops your ability to see yourself as part of a great interconnected whole, an awareness of spirit moving in and through the events of your daily life.

Tarot reading is a practice that enhances one's psychic abilities because it opens the psyche to forces and information that is not available through normal means.


How to Enhance Your Psychic Ability

Be fully in the present. The more you are in the present the more able you are to tap into a "broader" reality – the reality that exists in a timeless, fluid, unseen world.

Nurture a sense of play with your developing psychic ability. Laughter, joy, joking, curiosity all enhance psychic ability. Just as our dreams use make use of irony, jokes and simile to get their point across, our psychic sense makes leaps forward when we open our hearts, drop our "serious" attitude towards ourselves, and play with it.

Develop excellent listening skills. As you listen to others more carefully, the better your ability will be able to listen to your own inner self with better acuity.

Put trust in your intuition. Listening to your inner voice, and say and do things that affirm, and validate the information you've received. For example, you have an intuition that your mother has something to say to you – call her immediately and tell her about your feelings and you’ll be surprised at how accurate and timely your intuitive information was!!

Practice going into someone else's space. Imagine what it is like to actually be in another's body. Feel the sensations, thoughts and feelings and then share your insights with that person. Practice with friends and family who are receptive to developing their own psychic abilities.

Take an attitude of openness, and strive to be non-judgmental.

Meditation. Meditate everyday. It doesn’t have to be long, or complicated. Practice a walking meditation or while you are bathing.

Surround yourself with symbols – especially symbols that represent your developing psychic ability. For example, totems, spiritual icons, art – this will constellate a deeper relationship with the unseen world. Make an art project depicting a powerful dream you've had and put it in a central place in your home.

Begin a Psychic Journal. Document psychic experiences – remember to date your intuitions and write in the follow up when it happens.

Keep your 4 primary elements in balance, and maintain a full awareness of them. Fire, (intuition, passion, action) water, (love, flow, receptivity) earth, (practicality, grounding, body awareness) and air (breath, objectivity, intellectual stimulation). When these elements are out of balance in our daily lives this will impact on your ability to perceive and act upon information from the unseen world.

Developing your psychic ability will enrich your life in more ways that I can possibly recount in this format! It would take volumes to describe all the benefits. Most significantly, developing your psychic ability will provide a strong bridge between your unconsciousness and consciousness, deepen your faith, enhance your spiritual development, and guide you to your divine life purpose on this planet. Wouldn't you agree that these are reasons enough?

Kathleen does offer one on one coaching and counseling with psychics who wish to develop their psychic ability and practice. If you are interested in becoming a professional psychic advisor visit her Tarot Reading DVD page where you'll find her fees listed for psychic development coaching or contact Kathleen via her Contact Kathleen page.