Odd Man Out

I attend a monthly spiritual development circle and last month we worked with tarot and angel cards.

This particular evening there were three of us plus Sue the circle leader.

We started with a meditation then took our cards out and shuffled them while Sue explained what we were going to do, easy we were each going to do a reading for each of the other circle members, so we would each get and give readings, OK who's going to start said Sue and being Mr Confident I sat back and suggested that the other two might like to read for each other first and a bit nervously they agreed.

Phew I got out of that a bit nicely, I sat back and watched the other two do their readings, during which I realised that they were at the same stage as me skill wise and Sue interjected with loads of advice and as a group we discussed the readings and learnt so much.

OK said Sue, you can read for me Mark, at which stage the stress hit, read for Sue, oh no, with all her skills, gifts, knowledge, experience, total panic, but after a bit of very gentle persuasion I started.

So I gave Sue my cards, she shuffled them and one fell out, so we put it to one side, splayed out the rest and she picked out three cards. I laid these out and added the fourth to them then explained what I saw and what I thought, except for the fourth card and could I see how that fitted in, no.

Now recently I read a Blog posting that was saying any card can be made to fit into a reading and I remembered this and I looked and looked but still couldn't see it and I didn't feel comfortable about forcing a card to comply with the rest of the reading. If the card feels different and doesn't feel right, if you force it to comply will it adversely affect, corrupt the reading as a whole.

So I put my hands up, "Sorry Sue, I can see where the other cards are going, but I just can't see where this one does" I wasn't surprised when she said she could, she is the master and my teacher but then she explained that the reading wasn't for me it was for her, she could understand the reading and it confirmed a lot that she already suspected and knew and she could clearly see and identify where the odd card fitted in, it was part of the story but from a different aspect and explained why.

So apart from gaining a lot of experience and boosting my confidence level, the biggest lesson of that evening for me was, don't worry about the odd man out, treat the card as any other in the reading, tell the person you are reading for about the card and let them decide if it make sense to them.