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Learning To read Tarots

2011-04-18T15:27:00.000-04:00

Growing up i watched my mother doing cards readings countless times.

She mostly used tarots, but also had another deck, a french deck called "Sibylle".

I remember her friends dropping by for coffee and inevitably asking her if she would mind taking the cards out to look into a couple of issues....

If my dad was home, he would roll his eyes and just leave. I, in the other hand, would stay close enough to hear what was said and learn.

I felt a strong pull toward the cards, particularly Tarots, that i started reading about their meaning at a very young age.

My mother never directly tought me about them, on the contrary she always attempted to down play it, stating that it was just a game and none of it had any validity, yet people kept coming back.

I started mimicking her and give readings for my friends.

I never read for strangers until i moved to the US.

I was pushed to read professionally, and decide to give it a try. I did not feel very comfortable, to tell you the truth, and chose a neutral platform to start with.

I had an add on my web site: strangers would email me their questions and i would email them back the answer. Of course i would remain in pins and needles until a feedback would come, and luckily i got one every time except once.

It was a lady from Alaska, i remember it as if it was yesterday. Her reading was a little harsh, her guides were definitely letting her know that she had a few issues to work on. She finally did write back 6 months later stating that at first she had completely dismissed the reading, and that only now she understood how appropriate her message was.

Great confidence builder!

So i was pushed some more, there was some more ice to break.

So there I was, every weekend in the Spring and Summer of 2001, with my cardboard sign saying : "Free Reading!", sitting in a park bench in Central Park (i was living in New York city at the time).

I gave so many readings! I was loving it.

That experience really helped to let go and allow the information to flow. It did not matter if the "story" did not make any sense to me, it was obvious that it was making sense to the listeners, and i was getting immediate confirmation. I have learned to listen to my inner voice and verbalize it.

To this day i admit that i prefer to give readings by email, or at the very least to know as little as possible about the person i am reading for, so i do not have to work so hard in blocking off the superficial stuff, the misleading interference like body language, tone of voice, some time even the information is unnecessary and only brings confusion, blurring the fine line between the person's expectation and what actually is.

During the fall off the same year, i had a further revelation about my Central Park experiment. In most of the readings i had done i often, almost consistently, got a card that did not make any sense within the context of the reading, it seemed to be standing there disconnected from the rest of the spread, telling a story of it's own, speaking about unexpected emotional turmoil, about the feeling of the "rug being pulled from under ones feet", about a destruction and rebuilding that can not be foreseen, nor prevented, but only dealt with as it comes.

I can not find the words to describe how i felt, what i felt ,when i finally understood what that Tower card wanted to tell me, consistent in it's discrepancy, affecting the lives of so many people.

It really hit me like a punch: "Oh My God! It was 9/11!".

Elena B.

3 minutes Free tarot reading

2011-04-17T15:20:00.004-04:00

In an effort to make available to as many people as possible any message the Spirit world has for them, I have just added my listing to a new platform called Keen.

If you haven't heard about keen before, you should definitely take a look.

You can visit the site to seek advice on many subjects, from dinner recipe, to stock market, to psychic advise.

If you are skilled in a particular area and wish to share your knowledge with others, sign up for free.

I invite you to call if you would like to discuss spell working, or need ideas on a magical project you are working with.

Here is the link to my keen profile with 3 free minutes (Love the little phone that tells you if i am ready to take calls or not).

The "meant to be" concept

2011-04-16T22:43:00.001-04:00

Today my mind was dancing around the concept of what is meant to be... And my question is: how do we know what is meant to be? Is it only when things are simple and happen easily and smoothly? Agreeing with that statement seem to take away the fact that we often time are in need to learn lessons that we can only experience when things are not running smoothly. the universe gives us challenges to test our faith, our integrity, our determination, and whatever else it deems appropriate to test us with, at any given moment, with each an every choice we make. I happen to believe that along with the loving, constructive forces of the light, there are some dark forces of manipulation and destruction, and it is ultimately up to us, our intuition and the very fiber of our being to choose and act in alignment with who we are or who we want to become. It is not always true that only what happens flawlessly is meant to be, the same is true for the opposite: often time what was hard to accomplish was meant to be that way, for the lessons it contained. I have experienced, and watched friends experience scenarios that were not meant to be the way they turned out to be. i believe that the intended outcome was in their favor, it started flawlessly and then the obstacles came unexpectedly, a tug a war of back and forth of problems and solution. Shall we call it interference? What do you do, give up when it is like that? Assume it was not in your destiny and give up? Or do you fight for it? Try and try again until you get it right, until you have thought of every little things that may go wrong and created a way around it, overcame the obstacles, fought the opposition with everything you had and only then... only then, if it was not manifest, you have a right to give up, to throw in the towel saying i tried everything i could and i failed. Let's imagine for a moment that there are forces at war against each other in the universe, the so called war against good and evil, and humanity is stuck in the middle trying to decide who is holding the strings of any given scenario. what do we do? How do we know? Are we always to choose the easy path? i do not think so. Not everyone is blessed to have the kind of guidance to direct them through the maze of life. With or without that guidance however, it is up to each individual to trust our intuitions and act upon them, or not to act at all. For too long we have been thought to believe what we are told without questions, we have been told who the good guys and the bed guys are, counting on the fact that we are naive enough not to question our sources. Was it meant to be that most of us are working over 8 hours per day and we still don't make the bills? There is nothing anyone can tell me to convince me that our maker intended for the water, the air and our soil to be as polluted as we have allowed it to become, for our food to be filled with antibiotic, hormones and assorted poisons. For some to pretend to be able to afford to finance a war and others not be able to feed their children. We allowed it to be this way because it is easier not to question. A magic act begins in thought form, is transformed into word, and then action: if we all would believe that nothing is ever what is seems, admitting that we truly know nothing and re-learn to question and think for ourselves, unafraid to trust our intuition and voice our opinion, acting accordingly, the world would magically change into a much better place to live in. What do you think?