Tarot challenges.
Instagram, YouTube, Facebook…
Every time a new one comes along I get all excited and think, “Yay, another reason to play with my lovely cards. Let’s do this!”
And about three days in I’m like, “Judy, how many times? 🙄 You
know you don’t get on with these challenges.”
The problem is,
I don’t like reading cards without a reason.
Prompts or no prompts, it amounts to the same thing. I’m either pulling cards just to see what shows up, or I’m tackling prompts that most of the time I’m not invested in. And if I were, I wouldn’t necessarily want to be sharing the results with all and sundry.
This is why I don’t do daily draws either. They’re just too vague. There’s no “Need” involved. (Check out
Balthazar's video -
NEED is The Fuel for The Engine of Divination)
And yes, this does extend to my weekly
Colour Focus readings. I work through my discomfort by reminding myself that I’m doing these readings for others; that my intention is to get a message meant for someone out there.
Here I am, surrounded by enough cards to choke a small
herd of horses, and I’ve got no one to read for and only rarely do I have anything I want to read on for myself. It’s nuts!
And so I gravitate towards the challenges because mucking about with my cards is better than not using them at all, right? Mmm, not so much. It just ends up feeling empty and slightly exhibitionist.
I really need to find a way to read for other people.
My recent
freebie offer was as much a toe-dipping exercise as it was a way of finding out if anyone’s listening.
The problem with free readings is that very often people are attracted more to the “free” than the “reading”. They don’t really have a need either. They’re just taking advantage of getting something for nothing. Who wouldn’t?
So I’d like to charge a small fee. If someone’s willing to part with a couple of quid, they’re more likely to have a real question they’d appreciate an answer to.
Of course, all this would have to be online, via email or snail mail - Hello! 👋 Dyed-in-the-wool introvert here, with strong reclusive tendencies.
That said, I’ve been kicking this idea around for about a year and still I have no idea where to start. I suppose the motivation for this post was to get my thoughts down in writing to see if that might get the ball rolling.
Card reading is
fun. Having loads of different decks at my disposal is
fun! I’m not about to stop working with them any time soon. But I know I could be doing something
useful and it seems such a waste to just be mucking about.
