REGINA : What did you 'feel' or 'see' during a Tarot reading?
ALEX: What I saw most of the time was the face of my client, as well as the cards themselves.
But that's not what this question is about. The deck with which I acquired the most rapport and proficiency had some truly excellent artwork.
Vivid bright colors, bold shapes, and well-designed cards. I could still get astonishing results out of that deck today, if I ever took leave of my senses enough to actually read again, God forbid.
REGINA: And so…?
ALEX: When I laid the cards on the table, it wasn't every reading, though I think it probably was growing more and more common by the time I got out, there were times when it was like the cards themselves became three-dimensional.
It was as though they became like windows, like I was looking down through the table. The art didn't really change, but it seemed deeper somehow.
If you've ever used a toy from the 1980's called a View-Master, I would compare it a little bit like looking at the reels from one of those. It felt at times, that when I would move my head to the side, the art would shift in a sense to match my new position.
The images were two-dimensional and yet, I couldn't shake the perception that they had become something more extensive.
It is in that sense, that I would say that it was like peering through a series of windows into another world. Or, a series of other worlds.
REGINA: Did this experience affect your reading?
ALEX: Whenever that happened, the reading always proceeded with astonishing accuracy. The whole thing became more intuitive, more instinctual, and my client was always stunned by what I would seem to know.
It would easily give them the impression that the cards had communicated something to me that I had no way of knowing, because there's a sense in which that was accurate.
Part of that was just being a little bit vague, but part of that was something that is difficult to put into words.
There was this sense that if you just let it happen, meaning that if you didn't think about it too much and let the demonic suggestions speak, that the reading would be accurate. Indeed, that was the case. When you define the success of a reading by accuracy, then that becomes the goal.
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