Preparation for Tarot Reading

Many people ask how I prepare for my readings, and the answer is simple. An old Spanish Gypsy method is to clean your space/or the room in which you divine, before the session. This is not feasible by today's standards, but I think the point was much deeper. By cleaning the room, we not only concentrate and clear our heads, but too, focus on cleaning ourselves. Whenever we do a motion, there is an energy on the spirit realm which equals that. If we find the need to eat, for example, we want our spirit's nourished. If we clean, we too clean our spirit.

Before a Tarot session, I pray, clear my mind of all thoughts, in Buddhism it is called the no-mind. If you are having problems that day, when you read for someone, you may actually begin to see your problems mirrored in the cards. You owe it to yourself or one you read for, to be of complete meditation. I noticed that yoga and breathing exercises help to ground my restless Piscean nature. I have also noticed that drinking water during my sessions, helps to keep me awakened, and at times I drink green tea.

I used to burn a lot of incense during my readings and it seemed to distract me. Now, I have an oil burner, with a tea light under it, and I burn floral oils, I hear the Angels love that. I don't usually burn synthetic oils I make my own, or put in an essential oil. Sometimes, I even put water, a little essential oil, & some dried flowers or herbs it boils it like a little witch's cauldron or Shuvani (witch is Romanes -Gypsy language).

I used to switch from deck to deck, and realized I like to stick to one deck now. Although I do like to collect decks now and again. Magical colors for candles especially in Romani-Gypsy culture are purple and blue and frankincense or cedar scent. The cedar clears the mind, coming back to the no-mind. The most important lesson I have learned over the past 23 years of Tarot reading, that I wished I knew then, was that you are the most important part. I practiced hundreds of different methods, bought different cards, read tomes of books, and none made me happy. It was only when I threw everything out of my room, and put a blue cloth upon my table, and nothing, nothing but my cards, did I find myself again. And it took me back to when I was nine, and I found my first love, not walking along the halls of school, but sitting on top of my grandmother's old oak table, waiting to be shuffled...A love affair that will never end.

Honey Nature's Healer

Years ago, I read a book entry that spoke of the healing powers of honey. The story was about a woman who was burned on the legs, then she rubbed honey immediately upon the burn & wrapped it in cloth, the morning, upon waking, the burns were gone and there was no pain at all. I have used this many times in my own life with much success. The other day, while making candles, I removed the boiler and set my hand down right on top of the burner which was still on high. I quickly removed my hand but it was so burned, the skin was actually white, I never saw a burn this bad. I grabbed honey put it on and wrapped it. An hour later I went to bed. When I was cleaning the next day, I found the bandage, and remembered what had happened the night before. When I looked at my hand, to see if there was a bubble, or blister, I couldn't even locate where the burn was.

Herbal remedies are nature's healers. Never use herbal medicine to replace medical reason. I just put these tidbits up to help others along the way.