Tarot coaching - a new paradigm
Tarot coaching – a powerful new paradigm
"We hold a universe in our hands when we pick up a deck of tarot cards"
I can remember heading to a stranger’s house with questions in my head and butterflies in my stomach. I can remember walking through a front door and seeing a room with a beaded curtain and smelling the heavy scent of incense in the air. I can remember the growing anxiety about what the woman in front of me was going to ‘predict’ for my future. I can remember the fear of not picking the ‘good cards’ and being doomed to a life of disappointment.
Growing up, tarot was perceived as almost a dark art. It was a dirty secret. People didn’t want to admit they were fascinated by it and tarot readers were pictured as the stereotypical woman with a cloth around her head and gazing into a crystal ball.
If I were to ask you what the tarot is used for, what would be your response? For most people they would describe it as a tool for “seeing into the future”. Well, I am on a mission to modernise and transform the perception of the tarot.
I have always been an empath and my ability to trust my intuition and sense the emotion in others has made me a gifted coach. People often tell me that I “always know just the right thing to say”. My corporate background has meant that I have often downplayed the role that my intuition and insight play in my success as a coach.
The tarot has fascinated me since I was young. This year, I suddenly had a strong intuitive hit that I should actively learn the tarot. So, I found a deck of cards that I felt really connected to and I started to learn. I was suddenly very aware how powerful the tarot is as a coaching tool. Each card has a meaning, but the power of the interpretation has historically been sitting with the wrong person. The tarot card is not meant to be a tell and a prediction of the future by a ‘fortune teller’. The tarot is meant to be the foundation of a powerful coaching conversation between two people and a deep exploration of the possibilities and potential by the person receiving the reading.
This insight has completely transformed my relationship with the tarot. When I pull a card for myself, I no longer consider what the card is telling me. Instead, I ask the question “what could this card mean to me right now and what opportunities does this present.”
There are two sets of cards within a standard tarot deck: The Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana reflect the Hero’s Journey and covers the major life changes we will encounter in life. When a Major Arcana card comes up for one of my clients, I know this is dealing with transformative life change in some way. The Minor Arcana are more focused on the smaller changes and situations we experience on a daily basis.
Even at this simplistic level, when I am coaching someone using the tarot cards as guidance, I will already have a sense of whether the client is dealing with or facing a life transforming situation or simply navigating the ups and downs of life. It gives me context for the richer coaching conversation that is about to unfold.
Let me give you an example…
I pull The High Priestess card which is a Major Arcana card. This card is the card of intuition and the sub-conscious. This would indicate that the client needs to trust their gut feelings or intuition more in a situation they are dealing with.
I would use this card as great coaching prompt and perhaps ask the question “what does your deep inner wisdom suggest you do in this situation?” rather than the traditional tarot response of “the cards are saying you need to trust your intuition”. One response is transactional and the other is transformational. One response is a tell and the other is a beautiful exploration.
Can you see the difference?
There is so much more power in asking the client a question that makes them think deeply rather than the traditional ‘I can predict your future’ tell that tarot is more widely known for.
As I said, I am on a mission to transform the perception of the tarot. I desire to move it away from the fairground, mystical, fortune telling view to one of a powerful, transformative coaching tool that changes lives.
What is clear to me is that the tarot has so much potential to enable clients to explore and discover their own answers. In discovering their own answer, they feel far more connected to the outcome.
When we realise that the power of the tarot is not with the ‘tarot reader’ predicting fortunes and is actually about the ‘intuitive coach’ using the cards as a guide to asking powerful questions to promote deep self-reflection, that is where the real magic happens.
If you are curious about the power of a tarot coaching session, why not book a Soul Whisper session with me? In this powerful 1-hour session we firstly explore your Life Purpose pathway and then complete an intuitive tarot coaching session to deepen the conversation around:
What is currently happening
Your current challenges
Your current desires
The action steps available to you
The resources to support you.
It is a powerful session that gives you clarity on your purpose and the possibilities open to you.
This is what my clients say about The Soul Whisper…
“When you read that Joanna delivers a bespoke way of coaching, believe her! The reading was break takingly accurate. I mean it genuinely took my breath away. During the reading Joanna shared her wealth of wisdom, knowledge and experience which encouraged me to share my vulnerabilities. She also encouraged me to ask the ‘burning question’ that my own shame cloud had prevented me from asking, for that alone I will be forever grateful” - Melanie Dixon
“Often when I’ve heard the phrase ‘safe space’ used it’s felt cliched, but Joanna is truly an embodiment of one. Through her unique warmth and her empathetic coaching style, she was able to help me unlock and explore areas of my own mind and life that that I’d previously been unable to. She held a space for me to be vulnerable and it was only through that that I’ve been able to understand what is holding me back. The Soul Whisper tarot coaching was such an impactful experience for me, and I cannot thank Joanna enough” – Louise Moore
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"The cards tell a story, but YOU write the ending"
