No Crystal Ball!

A beautifully painted traditional wooden horse-drawn caravan (minus the horse!) on a seaside pier. It’s a breezy bank-holiday, and the place is crowded.

Outside a blackboard advertising ‘Tarot Readings – Your fortune told today.’

You’re tempted in, through the intricately designed curtain partly obscuring the colourful scene inside; a table, candles, a lady in a velvet dress expertly shuffling an ancient pack of cards.

Ring a bell? I imagine it might, as this is what Tarot tradition looks like, and still is.

Tarot is one thing, but it’s that second part: ‘fortune told’ that to me dilutes the potency of the cards, and reduces the power of Tarot to a one-dimensional purpose: will I meet a ‘tall dark handsome stranger?’ This cliché, and many others, treat Tarot as a game not to be taken seriously.

At The Seeker’s Pathway, we created the ‘Seven Pillars’ to provide clarity about our offering: traditional Tarot over ‘fortune telling.’ Our first pillar: ‘Presence over Prediction’ underscores this point: you as the seeker need to explore your life now, so you know yourself and your motivations. This then can equip you to deal with your future as the master of your fate, not as a victim.

Whether you want to use your reading for psychological reasons or traditionally, is entirely your choice. But what you will discover is this: that the Tarot ‘mirror,’ showing your life through the cards, will naturally guide you to your own future predictions – if you trust yourself!

— Nicky Osborne

(If something here lingers, you may wish to explore this work a little more deeply.)