Dollar_Store.Hooligan Posted December 25, 2018 Posted December 25, 2018 Hi All! I have a lot of concerns with my Rider-Waite Tarot deck. I am currently performing a tarot reading to give spiritual advice to my boyfriend's family which have financial concerns, and while I read it I started to feel extremely uncomfortable, stressed, and tearful. For a backstory, his family is divorced and his Mom's side has been in debt and hasn't paid rent in 5 weeks, therefore cannot hold her own and needs many support from her brothers and other family members. I was trying to look into it and I had started to feel extremely stressful emotions, I was pretty shocked because my boyfriend told me she had been very stressed and tearful about her debt, she is pretty young and is of close to the 40 year range and had been going through 'breakdowns' according to my S.O. When I read into her situation I had 10 of Wands, 2 of Pentacles and the Hanged Man. When I asked for clarifiers I got the Justice and Devil arcana, which I perceived to be stressed and juggling multiple responsibilities (10.OW/2.OP) and also feeling lost and in faithlessness (H.M). I also got 6 of Pentacles as a why, I perceived this as excessive spending on others due to the illustration at R.W Deck, but I am pretty spooked and this has happened to me multiple times and I am strangely fascinated with how I feel the energies of the mother as a result of reading into her. As I said up top, S.O told me that she was crying and was stressed, I TOO felt this during a reading for her. I also have done this in the past with my Ex, he was angry with me and in the end when I read through I TOO felt rage. Could this be some form of energy absorption as a result of reading into others? I have issues with mental health such as anxiety and it's pretty darn fascinating that I feel the emotions while conducting readings for others. What can I do though to prevent mental stress? It's pretty annoying for me as I can get quite disoriented with the person's situation that I lose myself in a way and get extremely confused. Should I be praying or cleansing my tarot cards of some sort? P.S I am new to tarot and would appreciate some advice or some explanation! This has truly been a strange experience for the past few months.
DanielJUK Posted December 26, 2018 Posted December 26, 2018 It means Dollar_Store.Hooligan that you are very sensitive, maybe sensitively psychic or intuitive or an empath, picking up the energies in the reading. Welcome to the forum! :thumbsup: <3 I am also like this but I don't tend to get emotions in a reading, maybe sometimes but not like this. I struggle much more in person with people around me but sometimes I do get emotions in a reading. I think what you have to do is create boundaries so you are not so affected. These are just my ideas of things I have tried for me...... - Ground Yourself. You should be able to control / protect yourself from being affected. Grounding yourself makes you less affected by others energies. There are many ways of doing this but one way I like is a meditation. Do a meditation sitting and put your feet on the floor (you might want to wear no shoes or go barefoot, feel the grounding under your feet, there is the floor and then what is below it and then soil and the roots of trees and all that earth under it. You might want to do this in nature, feet on soil or sand at a beach, the idea is to feel the energy under your feet, like roots of a tree, keeping you strong and stable, it gives you strength to control how you are affected. You have a strong foundation to keep you grounded and not affected. - Visualise Protection. Before a reading, maybe do a little meditation. See a light around you, like a bubble and around the cards, white is good for protection and gold from your crown chakra, have a look at what different colours do. This is to shield you. End this at the end of the reading and give thanks for the protection. Some people also do this with angels or spirit guides if you believe in those concepts. - Crystals / Gem Stones for protection. This really helped me! You can use stones on you to stop being affected. Black Tourmaline to absorb negative energy (all black stones absorb away), Amethyst is protective, Rose Quartz to protect the heart chakra (emotions), Citrine for protecting the aura, Hematite for grounding. I always wear on me Labradorite as a bracelet and a Black Onyx in my pocket, it's really helped me. Think of colours you are attracted to, look if they are protective online and have them in some form on you all the time :) Other people smudge their tarot space / home, with sage and many different herbs or candles or incense forms. There is tonnes of info on the net about this, so this is just what helped me! Just look for protection for empaths! I believe ritual is important, make a protection from other emotions as a ritual helps with protection. Sorry your Boyfriend's Mom has this stress and issues in her life.
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