Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by T. Susan Chang, author of Tarot Correspondences, Tarot Deciphered, and the new Living Tarot.
If you're like me, reading tarot is not always, or even usually, a blast of truth and blessed certainty from on high. The faint stink of doubt can linger at any and every stage of the process:
Did I draw the right card?
Did I have the right intention when I was shuffling? Was I distracted?
Am I just projecting my own hopes and fears onto the reading?
What if my prediction doesn't come true?
I'm not psychic—why I am even doing this?
Does tarot even work?!?!
Are my cards just messing with me?
It's OK to be