A tarot reader or astrologer can only offer what knowledge they have themselves. Sure they read the cards or the symbols, and the interactions between these elements, but if they have limited knowledge and life experience then their reading will likewise be limited. If they are not wise to the true nature of life and are caught in the delusions of maya, then they are only offering you more of the same web you are currently caught up in.
Ask your reader a few questions, before committing to a reading or astrological interpretation, about their training and life experience; and philosophy. Where are they coming from and how do they see the world and beyond. A reading is an opportunity to pass on some wisdom, it is a momentary break in the ongoing story of your life, and the cards revealed are chosen by your subconscious to impart illumination where there is currently darkness. If your reader is as caught up in the drama of relating incidents and activities happening on the wheel of fortune, rather than in the light of awareness at the centre of this spinning wheel, then what is the point of divination? Are you seeking excitement or enlightenment? Ask yourself this question.
“Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And still my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.
I pass, like night, from land to land;
I have strange power of speech;
That moment that his face I see,
To know the man that must hear me:
To him my tale I teach.”
Ancient Mariner – Coleridge
