TAROT INTERVENTION

By contributor Dave Cohen

I recently found out how Tarot can help shed insight when “traditional” interventions don’t appear to be working.

I have a Tarot client I’ll call Janie, who was going through a particularly rough patch. She hadn’t called me, but did call a colleague of mine who is a counselor (not a Tarot reader) and works in the same building Janie does. Everyone in the building seemed to think Janie was a “flake” with a lot of psychosomatic problems.

One day, I casually mentioned that I hadn’t seen Janie in a while. My colleague knew that I knew Janie and her problems, and confided that she had been in for several professional consultations. In exasperation, my colleague said, “I told her to just snap out of it.”

Having experienced depression and stress myself, and with other clients going through the same thing, I understood some of what Janie was going through. I had known Janie for several years and felt she wasn’t the “flake” everyone else thought her to be. I knew she had some deep-seated problems. I told my colleague, “You have to understand that she doesn’t know what ‘it’ is, what ‘snap out of it’ means, or how to ‘snap out of it’.”

A short time later, Janie called me. She said she had been to counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and anybody else she could line up, but none had been able to help her. She had left my colleague and seen several other professionals. Her latest psychiatrist had put her on medication that she said made her “feel weird.” She asked if she could come to me for a reading and I welcomed her with open heart and open mind.

I trusted that Spirit would help me as I shuffled the cards and then spread them. One of the first cards I turned over gave me a strong impression of imbalance. I asked, “When was your last physical examination?”

Janie said she hadn’t had a physical in quite a while, and I suggested that she call her doctor and schedule a complete check-up. I told her to continue using the medication that had been prescribed for her, and to tell the doctor about how the medications made her “feel weird”. I stressed that she should ask her doctor about chemical imbalance.

I didn’t hear from Janie for several weeks, and then she called one day and said she felt wonderful. The doctor had done a complete check-up with blood work and determined that she did have a chemical imbalance. He immediately changed her medications, and Janie said she saw an almost immediate improvement.

The traditional intervention hadn’t worked for Janie. She felt the people she talked to weren’t paying attention and weren’t hearing her pain, so she went from one professional to another. As many of the professionals she was seeing knew her reputation for over-reacting, they started with that frame of mind. The one professional who didn’t know her immediately prescribed medication. In desperation, Janie had called me to do a Tarot reading, hoping it would get to the root of her problem.

Perhaps the traditional modalities would have worked for Janie eventually, but she was getting to the end of her rope and felt desperate. Tarot offered insight on where to go—in this case, her doctor for a complete physical exam.

Today Janie is a healthy and happy person. She has, indeed, “snapped out” of her depression and stress.

If you feel that traditional modalities are not working for you, don’t give up. Do not stop taking any medications that may have been prescribed for you until you talk to your doctor. But do keep an open mind and open yourself to alternatives. Don’t be afraid to ask a trusted reader to do a reading for you. It can work in tandem with the traditional modalities and help you feel much better a lot quicker.