21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card – Mary K. Greer

21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card – Mary K. Greer

21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card is full of techniques for gaining insights into tarot readings. Each way or step offers a unique method of interpreting a card. In some you’ll draw from traditional meanings; in others you’ll use the images to evoke your own responses. You will get as much information from a single card as from an entire spread. What is more, you’ll discover how a card influences and is influenced by other cards. And you will have a great time doing this!

I began reading the tarot almost forty years ago. During this time, I learned that people have the answers to their own questions far more than they realize. I stand in awe of the innate wisdom in human beings. As a reader I call myself a “midwife of the soul” (a term first coined by Sigmund Freud), because I use my skills and knowledge of the cards to ask questions so that the querents’ responses “give birth” to their own wisdom. You will discover how to be a midwife both to your own and others’ insights.

I’ve developed what I call R.I.T.E.: a reading that is interactive, transformational, and empowering; a reading that uses the twenty-one steps in this book. When I began reading for others I often found myself left with a headache or feeling drained, despite grounding and cleansing practices. Once I realized that this rose from my taking on the responsibility of fixing or satisfying others in order to ease my own empathic response, I was able to devise a way of reading that proved its worth by how both the querent and I felt after our consultation. Now, by using the R.I.T.E. methods, rather than being exhausted at the end of a reading I feel pleasantly empty, open, and energized. If I don’t, then I check what happened and see what I could have done differently.