The cards can answer not just "Will he/she/we..?" or "What will happen?" but also "What should I do?" . . .or do differently! One of the greatest ways the cards serve us is in the role of sheer guidance to optimal actions we can ourselves take.
A Tarot card reading can provide not only predictions of what may arise in your future from current situations, or reveal something of the true nature of people and situations; the cards can also provide guidance and advice on the best possible actions or approaches you could choose to take, in order to achieve the optimal outcome by what you yourself are contributing to your situation or relationship or issue.
It is this role of guidance and wisdom, sheer counseling in fact, that is such a wonderful aspect of tarot cards and a tarot reading, yet sometimes this can be overlooked when we are falling over ourselves trying to get predictions and true feelings and future outcomes.
These are all there too of course, but the cards also give us counseling, direction, and very clear recommendations of what to do to optimize our plans, processes, goals and relationships, and also they can give us cautions about what not to do!
I often get great guidance just sitting down with a question for myself on how best to proceed with a person in my life, a project, a choice, a plan or goal. I will draw individual cards that give me my answer, and a series of cards drawn can give either a sequence of advice themes, a sequence of events, or a deepening progression of guidance, warnings, and suggestions.
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"In what ways should I proceed differently?"
For example, the nature of my relationship with a certain person in my life has been shifting and having some interesting progressions lately. Things are changing, and with shifts and changes, we often begin to feel a little unseated, disoriented, as we find that the steps of the dance are starting to be different, the moves in the chess game are beginning to get more complex.
This morning I drew some advice cards to get some recommendations from the Tarot as to what I personally should best do in order to keep the best possible energy maintained in this relationship, and keep things on a good track instead of one that goes in a detrimental direction for both of us.
I drew the 4 of Swords, an instant message of holding back!! I then drew Temperance, a reinforcement of the need to find balance and the right level.
Lately I know I have been crowding this person, and I had realized, myself, that perhaps I should just ease off! My cards told me exactly that -- the randomly drawn cards gave me a message loud and clear, a confirmation that yes, quit bugging the guy, even with the best of intentions!!
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Just like that, the Tarot can be a source of mysteriously accurate and spot-on counseling and advice. The cards can tell you what to do and how to do it.
"Cherry" of guidance, not the cake
Now, bear in mind however, as with anything or anyone that gives you advice, tells you a course of action you maybe "ought to" take, you still have the free will and the freedom of choice to make your own decision, to reject the advice or follow it, just as you do when you ask a trusted friend, "What do you think?" You can get a definitive answer while not having to necessarily listen or go along with it. But you will have your answer, and with the cards, I almost always find in retrospect that they were right, and the counsel was wise!
Bear in mind also, that it's not wise to base all your decisions on external sources such as a psychic reading -- the real value of a reading is to confirm, reinforce, or reveal, but you must always ultimately make your life choices on a combination of your own wisdom plus the extra guidance a reading or other divination method can give you.
Cards and readings are the cherry of guidance on top of your own cake of inner wisdom and decision-making.
Don't rely on cards or psychic guidance with too imbalanced a ratio of reading-advice-to-self-decision. But do realise that readings can be a great way to get higher reinforcement on what's really going on and what may be your best option to achieve what you want or deal with an issue to the best outcome, not just a set-in-stone outcome.
So, when you get your next Tarot reading, focus not just on questions of the future such as will this or that happen, or what will happen, or even how someone is feeling -- the Tarot can do those, but these remarkable cards can also answer your questions of how to proceed, what may be best to do or not do, and what may be your best course of action and your best mental or emotional mindset to adopt.
The cards can give you straight-shooting advice as well as predictions of the future and information about the hidden present.
They can tell you "Woah girl, stop calling him and let him feel the need to come to you instead!"
They can tell you "Go right ahead with this project, you need to go for it and not hesitate."
They can tell you "Bring more love and less bickering into this situation."
So, don't forget to ask the Tarot for guidance as well as "outcome" -- you get some great advice and some straight-talk!