New Age, Wicca, Divination

Talking with a psychic is the ultimate taboo for some, and a family tradition for many. Less expensive than long term psychotherapy, the occasional reading can go a long way toward focusing on personal issues without your having to make a long term committment. He or she addresses issues of the soul or mind. They have spent time developing the innate ability to sense or feel the unseen, non-physical environment.

A good psychic will not look or sound like a stage act during serious spiritual or relationship readings This is not mind reading, like guessing your dog's name. It is the conveyance of information with an eye toward helping the client gain understanding. The client's future is not set in stone just because the psychic senses an outcome. As soon as a client hears the reading it becomes relatively obsolete because the client has new information.

Usually associated with "Fortune Tellers", cartomancy is one of the most popular forms of divination right behind the daily Horoscope. Visually stimulating, emotionally evocative, and mysterious, Readers and Seekers use them to help with decisions, both simple and difficult. There are countless decks for users and expensive collector decks that are suitable for framing or display.

Cartomancy combines 3 psychic, or mental, triggers.The illustration, a key word, and a number will appear on the major arcana. The Minor Arcana will bear an illustration and number. There are many variations on this framework, though. I have seen decks created by for specific purposes, that might bear words with no illustrations, or a simple stick figure and nothing else. Those are usually created by the reader for themselves and only they know what the cards represent.

In recent years other sorts of divinatory cards have been created, such as angel cards, Bach flower cards....whatever the popular mysticism of the moment is. I am sure someone has come up with feng-shui cards, I just haven't seen them yet.

The 3 elements of a card serve as a framework illustrating the drives that affect the seeker's past, present, and future. There are those who do not include tarot readers in the "psychic reading" group, but one cannot use the cards effectively without some psychic ability. The cards still have to be interpreted with an inner eye towards that which cannot be seen. That would be...psychic.