SO, HOW DOES TAROT WORK?

God speaks to us through our dreams, hunches, instincts and inner voices opening closed doors. Like dreams, prayer is a powerful tool to realize God. Whatever we feed our subconscious mind: false or true, good or evil, is registered as fact. When your thoughts accumulate, they become your beliefs and beliefs haunt your mind. The mind is vast ocean of potential. You can dive into it, surf it, float it, swim in it, play it, and have fun in it. A devotee asked Ramakrishna Paramhansa ‘Sir is God real and can I see him?’ Ramakrishna replied, ‘yes, God is real. I see him just as I you or any other object around me.’ The devotee continued, ‘Can I also see Him as you do?’ said the sage, ‘yes you can, if the intensity of your longing for God is equal to the intensity of a drowning man longing for fresh air ; or the intensity of a mother longing for the life of her only child in the grip of serious illness. If your longing for God is at least a fraction of the longing which Radha had for Krishna, then you will see God. Tarot is a pictorial system with divine message. Tarot cards can be interpreted as the message of God; a true voice of God. You can hear this voice if you have the intensity to read into the images of the cards. The final judge therefore is you, who can interpret the meaning of the cards. Tarot readings are a combination of intuition, skill and knowledge. How we perceive things relies heavily on our subconscious, and there are those who believe that with Tarot, the subconscious projects its own interpretations on the Tarot cards. As a person receiving a Tarot reading, your interpretation of the cards is a result of the factors in your life that shape who you are and what you are about. The questions you have about your life (usually the reason for consulting the Tarot in the first place) are projected onto the pictures, so you define answers from what you see. In this way, the Tarot is useful in helping us tap into our subconscious to find answers that we might never consciously think. Whether you believe that Tarot cards hold any power or ability to shed light on your life, your problems or your future might depend on how easily you can open your mind to the idea of it. In fact, some say we only need the Tarot to help us until we learn to get in touch with our "inner guide" on our own. Tarot helps us contact the spiritual dimension of the universe. Tarot gives us a common language with which we communicate with that dimension.