When asking the Tarot cards a question it is good to understand a few things first.
- Clients Don’t Know How To Ask Questions.
This is good to remember because although your client may ask a question, as the reader it is YOU who needs to understand how to ask the cards a question.
Clients can often ask many questions in one, the wrong type of question or even persuasive questions. Watch out for the way your client may form their questions.
- Double Sided Questions
A double sided question is two questions in one, for example, “Can you ask the cards if I am going to stay in the work I am in or if I am going to move?”
Asking two questions in one is not going to give you a clear reply.
The Tarot cards may have a problem replying to two questions at once. Do they answer the first question if the person is going to stay in their current work or the second question of if they are going to move. If the client wants two questions, then just ask the card two questions instead of asking a double sided one.
Examples of double sided questions.
- Will I leave my husband or work to save our marriage?
- Will my boss give me a promotion or fire me?
- Will my business work out or will I have to close it down?
- Will I buy my own home or stay where I am?
All of the above questions can be cut in half, or asked as two separate questions.
- The Or Not.
The or not is also something that tends to slip in at the end with a lot of Tarot questions and can mess up the answer.
“Am I going to stay in work this year, Or Not?” The or not added at the end has now made this a double sided question. Does the cards answer – Am I going to stay in work this year? or Am I Not going to stay in work this year? See how that little extra at the end has created a new question.
- “Does he love me, or not?”
- “Will My job give me a promotion, or not?”
- Will my business work out or not?”
- Will I buy new home or not?”
You may find it hard to directly answer a question with the or not added onto it. At the least it will be harder, and why bother with harder?
- The persuasive question
This is the type of question where your client tries to guide you to your answer. Often they don’t realise they are doing this and mostly it is what they want to hear because they have already made up their mind on a subject. This is why it is important a reader filters the questions.
example of a persuasive question.
- “He’s going to come back to me isn’t he?”
- “He left me because of his mother, didn’t he?”
- “I’m going to get the promotion because my boss is going to leave, isn’t she?”
These kind of questions tends to end in didn’t her or isn’t he. But basically your client wants you to agree with their preconceived thoughts.
If your client asks a confusing question you can simple say, how about we ask it this way instead? and suggest a clearer more direct question.
Here’s my tip for asking the right question in a Tarot reading.
First I ask the question in my mind. If I can answer the question with a yes or a no, then I know the question is well formed. If I can’t reply with a simple yes or no then I need to reword the question.
Once I am happy with the question I will then ask my cards and then I go into all the details of the answer. Rarely is it just a yes or no, that is only to clear that I have asked it correctly.
Questions to avoid are very open general questions, not because they are wrong, but because they will give you general replies.
What’s going to happen in my future? That is a very general question and the cards can go in any directions with that kind of question. (And I get asked it a lot)
In situations like the above you can instead suggest to your client that you bring the question back a little and suggest the question of, How is my clients year going to be? Or you can fine tune it to What is going to happen in my clients love life this year? Or what is going to happen in my clients work life this year?
The easier the question, The easier the answer.