When I read tarot for clients, I don’t like to use it for seeing the future. I mainly do spiritual tarot readings. While getting premonitions is certainly possible, I like to have those kinds of messages come through when they aren’t forced. If I am asking about the future, I know that spirit guides and the other forces that help me read the cards won’t give me a straight answer unless it’s something that I need to know or say. They would let me have that message without asking for it.
There’s a reason we can’t know the future — it’s supposed to be that way. We have to be ignorant of what’s coming, otherwise, life would be boring. Souls don’t come here to be human so that everything is predictable and known. They came to experience blindness and uncertainty.
I do tarot readings for clarity on present spiritual lessons.
I Read Tarot to Heal
My life goal is to help as many people as I can with my intuitive gifts. It isn’t helpful to people for them to know the future — to know how events will unfold in their lives.
People want to know if love is coming, if they’ll get that promotion, or what will happen when they move to a new city. My clients are looking for meaningful answers to these kinds of questions. But the way I read tarot is mainly for spiritual growth purposes. If I ask the cards, “What will happen if I make this choice?” I expect the answer to be very spiritual in nature — meaning that I will get an answer about what it has to do with my soul growth instead of what surface-level situation I’ll find myself in.
Knowing why you’re going through something in the present is far more healing than knowing what’s going to happen to you. Everything you’re facing in this life is designed to help you level up spiritually. You must learn your lessons. I read tarot to reveal those lessons, not to see into the future.
If you knew the future, you wouldn’t learn anything. It would defeat the purpose of being here at all since the soul came here to learn.
The Future is Behind a Veil
Often, the cards will show me that I am not supposed to know what’s about to happen. If I ask about the future I’ll often get the Wheel of Fortune card or The Devil card — meaning that I shouldn’t be trying to ask questions about the future. That’s focusing on the wrong thing.
My clients and I might want to know the outcome of a certain decision or how a relationship is going to develop, but there are simply things that no one can know. The future is behind a veil of human knowledge — if it’s knowable at all. Being human is exciting because there’s an element of freewill. We have the experience of randomness and uncertainty.
We simply don’t know for sure, while we’re here, whether there is freewill and whether we can alter the future.
We experience the future as something mysterious. We perceive that it is open to many possibilities. The tarot cards can’t change that.
Sure, sometimes the cards give us warnings about what not to do, or even future predictions. But this is not my intention when I sit down with a client for a reading. My goal is to help us understand the lessons behind life, not to see into the future.
Ask for Advice Instead
The cards have no problem giving advice. Often, the hardest thing is to break a cycle. The cards will tell us how to do this so we can be free of our mental stresses. It’s not like it solves all our problems to know spiritual advice — the hardest thing is to follow that advice.
I’m just a channel for your messages. I can’t hold your hand through the changes you must make in your life. But I can ask the spirits for advice that you need in the present moment in your spiritual tarot reading.
Hi, I’m Emily. In addition to writing, I also teach meditation, read tarot, create podcasts, and I’m a spiritual coach. Check out my website and book a tarot reading with me.
The divine in me recognizes the divine in you.
