Tarot – to charge or not to charge…
Not delving into politics…have the flu, I feel sick enough. NyQuil is your friend.
For some reason, my Tarot cards have been on mind, a LOT, lately. I even dream about them. Yeah, yeah, a sign that I should pull them out. I don’t wanna. I haven’t done a serious reading since 2013. Some information just doesn’t need to be “had”, you know?
I started with Tarot in the early 80’s; like most, I started with Rider-Waite, for about 5 years and then, jumped into the deep end with no life preserver, moved to Thoth. The deck was a gift from someone and I just felt electrified by it. It was my deck from that point forward.
One of the larger controversial points in my practice was charging for readings. I don’t. It just goes against my own beliefs. You charge? Fine. Whatever you wish to do. And the blowback? Holy crap on a cracker! You’d think I was kicking puppies or something. My practice, my choice.
Why don’t I charge? Well, it was something I was taught, decades ago; you don’t charge for Craft and Tarot readings fall into that purview for me. I see it as a gift of sorts and my ethics (not better than yours, just mine), do not allow me to charge for a gift.
Gives (gave) me a lot of freedom as to who I read for and who I didn’t feel I wanted to read for. I learned relatively early on, not to read for family, I WON’T read for my kids or immediate family, for example. A couple of reasons, the readings could be tainted by my intimate knowledge of them and their psychology, another reason is learning too much, perhaps…bad news or huge struggle on its way. Selfish on my part? Probably.
I used to hold Tarot classes, didn’t charge those those either. What people did with what they gleaned from those classes/workshops was up to them.
Why am I writing about this? I guess I am just working out, whether or not I should pull the cards out.
Okay, well – if you stuck around? Thanks for reading. I am off to open a new box of tissue and dose up on DayQuil.
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