The best way to predict the future is to create it!
For further information or to book an appointment please email me at:
The older email address (tarot.solutions@hotmail.com) will still work, but I will check it less often than the new one.
Dates until October 2024
Airy Fairy on London Road, Sheffield. Last Saturday afternoon of each month.
- 27th July 2024
- 31st August 2024
- 28th September 2024
- 26th October 2024
Price
£40 per session at the Airy Fairy venue on the above dates (initial 50mins; subsequent 25 mins) – £35 for pay in advance; or by cash payment. Concessions are available.
Cross my palm with silver
Spirit guides, angels, synchronicity, quantum entanglement, the collective unconscious, depth psychology, or woo-woo – everybody has their own theory on the Tarot. I am a cultural evolutionary psychologist (I’ll explain that if you have a few hours) and rather fancy myself as a hard-nosed scientist rather than a mystic. Of course, I also have my own ideas on how the Tarot works, and while my ego likes to think I’m right, I have to admit, I really have no idea how to prove anything either way. But, it turns out, that that doesn’t actually matter. What I do know is that the Tarot does have an uncanny way of delivering the information that someone in a situation needs, and that is the important part.
I do believe in “magic”, but again, as a psychologist, I naturally think that magic is an emergent property of the mind; and that is both real and powerful enough: it gets results.
I still like to go along with the old traditions and rituals though. Even in this day of electronic banking and crypto currencies, I will ask you to ‘cross my palm with silver’: for luck that is. I once told someone that ‘I wasn’t superstitious’, then retracted by saying ‘actually, maybe I am’: again, as a psychologist, I’d rather explain this away as theatrics; that the “silver” is psychological contract that sets the stage for the subconscious to come through. Yet again, who am I to know: it works! Anything shiny or looks like silver will do: 5p coin, an old teaspoon, or even a washer. If you can’t find one, I’ll lend you one.
What is a reading
A standard face-to-face reading consists of a full Celtic Cross spread 10 Tarot cards, often with an additional card as signifier. Special spreads of 3 cards etc. are also available. Photographs of the reading are allowed.
An initial consultation will be available such that the reading process is explained and questions can be answered. This lasts around 50 minutes (a so called psychiatrist’s hour)
Part of the consultation (and a large part of the initial consultation) is in formulating a well-formed question of the Tarot such that a productive reading may be obtained. The sitter will develop this skill with practice.
Subsequent consultations will be around 25 minutes.
Reading slots
For frequent readings, a regular slot can be pre-arranged, if available, with a small deposit.
Reading slots are very limited and are to be assigned on a first come first served basis. If demand becomes too high, then applicants will be placed on a waiting list until a slot does become available. Regular sitters will be given preference in assignment, but this cannot be guaranteed. Where no bookings have been made by a sitter for a while then their slot is likely to be assigned to someone else.
Premium readings outside of normal reading hours, or at a different venue might be available for an arranged price.
Well, according to the management guru Peter Drucker, ‘The best way to predict the future is to create it.’
It would seem unlikely that a random draw of cards would give an accurate projection of future occurancies. I don’t think that is how the Tarot works. Rather, we have the ability to make what we want happen. The awareness of what we want, and the contingencies involved, can lead to action in the serivce of making that future more likely.
So, let me tell you what is going to happen.
I can have a good guess as to what might happen based on my various life experiences, knowledge of psychology, and previous consultations, but I don’t claim to be gifted with prescience more than anyone else. I much prefer to be honest and tell you what I’m doing, how I’m doing it, and about what the Tarot can and cannot enable.
When I give a Tarot reading, I blend the art of dream interpretation with proven psychological science.
The Tarot may seem uncanny, working like a magik. Magik, in this sense, is about not having to know exactly how something works in order to get willful results. How the mystery language of dreams and the Tarot operate are surely down to the science of psychology, but much about the mind is still unknown. However, we can still put the unconscious to beneficial use in resolving our situations.
‘Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.‘ as Carl Jung once said.
As one of the pioneers of modernising the principles of magik through the science of psychology, Carl Jung understood the deep significance of dream symbolism, our fundamental knowledge of the world, our undercurrent of desires that exhert such a powerful interaction upon waking experience.
And so, the Tarot is a portal to your deep unconscious. Meaning that the cards will draw out your destiny.
The mysterious symbolism of the Tarot is the language of dreams. It allows for a glimpse of the intentions, knowledge and resources that are otherwise hidden in the mind. It communicates with them, it liberates them, enabling you to create the future you desire.
And rest assured, the answers here are yours to find.
We all have within us, the capacity to discover how to get what we want. We just need to ask the right questions in the right way. Asking of the Tarot, even if the answers initially don’t seem to make much sense, will tell you what you need to know.
