
Please, stop reading cards like this - How to spot fake pros
Hello, guys! This is a short lesson to highlight a way of reading cards that I spot anywhere on social media, and that you should definitely move beyond as soon as possible.
I’m talking about those readings where the many cards of a spread are not read organically in their flow, but taken and considered individually. You can recognize those interpretations immediately: they usually look like bullet lists.
I want to show you how this approach can lead you to give disjointed, inconsistent, and ultimately pointless readings. Not to mention their accuracy.
All right, let’s take the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Now imagine that, instead of telling you the usual story, I go like this:
- Little Red Riding Hood: a sweet child with a red hood; she loves her family and walking through nature.
- Wolf: a wild creature; not totally reliable. He likes human flesh.
- Grandma: a very lovely old lady, who unfortunately is sick and visually impaired.
- The hunter: a good man who hunts bad beasts and helps people around.
...got it?
Now, I have the greatest understanding for all those who commit this error in very good faith. You may be a beginner, or someone who didn't have the chance to deepen your study of tarot. So I really hope this is a call to break out of the cave that commercial mainstream has taught you to see as the only possible path.
Real cartomancy is reading about life. It’s not explaining one card at a time, like museum guides do with paintings.
Much less understanding, I’ve to say,I have for those self-proclaimed professionals, maybe even with many declared years of experience, who get paid by you to return such things... In that case, if I were you my fellows, I’d ask for a refund straight away. They are not professionals at all, and they know it. They sell themselves as university professors when they haven’t even finished primary school.
In the picture, you can see a reconstruction of the moment when the wolf meets Little Red Riding Hood in the forest and, pretending to be her friend, deceives her so that he can easily devour her later.
BIG EDIT, because I'm being misunderstood a lot (or better, misread a lot): of course you can explain cards one by one, and even more surely you have to analyze them one by one. I'm not criticizing this. Read my example again: what would you understand of the original story if you didn't know it, and only got my above list and no more? A plain nothing. Similarly, as I've explained in the comments abundantly, there are readers who do exactly the same, and sell it to you as an expert service. I repeat: they are elementary school children disguised as professors.
This said, I've nothing against beginners *as such* (I've met brilliant ones) nor I'm saying that a style is better than another; even less that I'm the chosen one by the tarot god himself. I'm just saying this: next time you get a reading that sounds like my example above, avoid the reader and tell anybody else to do the same, because doing what I've described in my example is not a reading that can be called so.