What is a Tarot Reader?
Fortune tellers, reading the lines of the hand or a deck of cards, are not just female characters straight out of a period film.
Indeed, these gifted women blessed with a certain visionary talent, often with the look of a gypsy, really did exist and are almost certainly the first to have practised clairvoyance on a popular scale.
They embody the earliest beginnings of what is today called tarot reading. And while the divinatory art of tarot is less folkloric nowadays, it has nonetheless kept the very same characteristics it had in the days of those ladies. So in this article we answer one of the great tarot questions: what is a tarot reader ?
The tarot reader in question
In cartomancy, the name tarot reader is given to the person who practises the divinatory art through a deck of tarot cards.
Although tarot reading was practised only by women for several centuries, today there are also a good many male tarot readers. If the art of drawing the cards of the divinatory tarot is less theatrical today than it once was, that is because it has become more rational.
Indeed, if tarot reading and clairvoyance in general are still as successful as ever in 2020, it is perhaps because this art has become more logical in its analysis and interpretation of the symbolism attached to the cards.
So the tarot reader no longer “plays” with the querent the way people used to have a little fun doing back then, without it bothering anyone at all. No, today the tarot reader must answer the querent as clearly as possible. And those answers must be in keeping with the querent’s psychological profile, with plenty of detail and precision.
They cannot cover everything and go off in all directions. They must follow a common thread which is the very life of the querent. It is thanks to all these strengths that the professionalism of a tarot clairvoyant is revealed.
The tarot reader of the 21st century
Today even more than a few years ago, a tarot reader is a highly cultured person who, beyond a deep knowledge of the cards, is a seasoned philosopher, passionate about the stars and the celestial configuration. The tarot reader is generally an enthusiast of literature, psychology and the various sciences.
Their innate gift of extrasensory perception, indeed their 6th sense, makes them a person of above-average intellect, even though they have no need to prove it at every turn.
But while they are always a plus, these psychic gifts are no longer truly essential today for successfully drawing the cards in tarot reading.
Only a very deep knowledge of the cards or arcana is in fact needed, along with, of course, a broad open-mindedness in psychology to be able to interpret what the trump cards have to reveal about the querent. While some tarot readers still hold consultations in an office, facing the person eager to know their future, many of them now work online, through a website.
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