Tarot Card Reader Turns Skeptics Into Believers
Utah Tarot Card Reader Turns Skeptics Into Believers
Amid the chaos of a bustling coffee shop, Ella McNeil sits quietly at a booth against the wall with a laptop open and her belongings at her side. Customers stream in and out of the shop all day, but every so often one will sit down at the booth with McNeil and begin chatting. Eventually, McNeil pulls out a deck of animal tarot cards and begins shuffling them. Based on the client’s time, she lays out a number of them on the table. McNeil then uses the laid-out cards as a guide to explore the past, present and future of the client.
“Each card is a lesson that we can learn about the universe and ourselves,” McNeil said. “I feel like it’s my calling to help people and to help teach them life lessons.”
For about four months now, McNeil has been a fixture at the Coffee Pod coffee shop in Provo. McNeil offers her psychic and animal speak tarot card readings twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Her success is evident by her growing number of repeat clients and those who seek her services by the recommendations of friends.
“I have 100 percent faith in her,” said Danny Stewart, a humanities professor at Utah Valley University. “She has that rare ability to pull the veil aside and see past it from time to time.”
McNeil has been interested in alternative medicine since an early age, however, it wasn’t until her 20s that McNeil purchased her first deck of tarot cards and began giving readings. After 15 years of being a business manager for various companies, McNeil opted to read tarot cards professionally. There is a multitude of tarot cards with different themes, but McNeil chose a deck that uses the personality of 44 different animals because of its Native American origins.
“Every animal has its own unique personality just like people do,” McNeil said. “The reason I like this is because it translates to the human condition.”
A full tarot card reading includes nine card positions that represent various aspects of the client’s life, with the animal’s personality correlating to that specific aspect. For example, a bear represents introspection while a badger represents aggressiveness. Should a badger card be located in a position that represents the past, McNeil uses her intuition to discover what in the client’s past may have had an aggressive quality to it.
By the nature of the readings, many of the sessions involve intimate conversations and revealing personal information. Yet, McNeil’s sincere demeanor helps clients get the most out of the readings and provides advice for improving one’s life. For one client, McNeil accurately identified a negative personality trait that was impeding the success of the client in her chosen career path.
“I’m just opening up a light that’s already there and giving them hope,” McNeil said.
Kellie Wilson, a repeat client of McNeil’s, is confident in the significance of the readings.
“I think it’s more productive than going to a therapist,” Wilson said. “It just gives people some perspective and goals to work on.”
Undoubtedly some are skeptical of McNeil’s skills. However, many clients enthusiastically vouch for her.
“I give her a tremendous amount of accolades for what she does,” Stewart said. “She is able to help you through your life.”
Marnie Roberts, owner of the Coffee Pod, cites numerous comments on the Coffee Pod’s Facebook page as proof that McNeil has been influential in the life of her clients.
“It’s been nothing but positive, good feedback from people,” Roberts said. “I was definitely skeptical, but she changed my mind.”
As for McNeil, she welcomes skeptics.
“It makes me feel like a woman of integrity when I can do what I say I can do,” McNeil said. “Sometimes you have to believe in yourself when the people around you are telling you to do something different.”
Article source: heraldextra.com
5 Best Tarot Reading iPhone Apps
Are you searching for the top iPhone Tarot Reading apps available? Here is our list of the Top 5 iPhone and iPad Tarot Card Reading applications which may give you mysteriously accurate predictions about love, health and wealth.
Many people feel that Tarot Card Readings by phone or in person can give them an insight into the future or help them understand certain aspects of their life. So with that said, here is our list of our picks for the Top 5 Tarot Reading Apps.
Tarot App
Tarot by Nuclear Elements is one of the best tarot applications. Available for $1.99 through the iTunes App Store this app has many different reading styles including a spin cycle which moves the cards fast giving you the opportunity to stop it with a tap. This easy to use tarot app is ideal for experts and beginners. With 78 cards including their meanings you will be able to use more spread choices including Basic 3-Card; Basic 5-Card, Between Extremes, Celtic Cross, Creative Process, One-Card, One Major Arcana, Psychological, Relationship and Shadow Truth.
Learn Tarot App
Learn Tarot by MoodWorks is a great way to learn how to read tarot cards with a simple reference guide. Priced at £2.49 at the App Store, this app will help you with the use of a Tarot deck. With information and details on the meanings for every one of the 78 cards, you will learn how to interpret in different situations with the option to learn a card a day. There are over 300 pages of explanations for 78 cards and 4 situations of each.
Tarot Pro App
Tarot Pro by Nuclear Elements is an updated version of the first app mentioned for $2.99 at the App Store. This has almost everything you need to do a professional reading. You can now switch between gorgeous renderings of the Rider-Waite Deck and the Marseilles Deck with 78 cards in each. Available on the iPhone and iPad and iPod Touch, this application allows you to enter questions and save spreads like a journal for you to monitor. There are 10 insightful spreads to choose from, including the classic Celtic Cross. Also containing a deck spinning option you will find this application has great features for you to use.
E Tarot Pro App
E Tarot Pro by Phemka is available for $3.99 through the iTunes App Store. To use as a mobile fortuneteller this app gives you a true interpretation of the draw. In every game, texts are different according to the chosen theme, whether it is love, money or work. There are original and clear texts by Emanuela, Astrologer and Tarologer with four different games.
Daily Tarot Reading App
Daily Tarot Reading by Nefas Bilisim Elektronik is available for $0.99 at the App Store. This application will help you predict a daily tarot card reading with clear instructions on dos and don’ts. Obtain predictions on job, love and environment with a simple explanation of what the tarot means and according to the tarot how your days going on. Using this application can be an addictive way to give you the enhance look and feel of the tarots.
In addition to our list there are many other Tarot Card Reading Apps available for the iPhone and iPad, along with new apps becoming available every month, to give you entertainment and education on the world of Tarot Card Readings; however, for an Accurate Tarot Card Reading consider calling a professional Tarot Card Reader by phone who specializes in Tarot.
Psychic Books: Confessions of a Tarot Reader’
You most likely know her name from years of food writing, or maybe as the EMT whose memoir, “Ambulance Girl,” was the basis for a movie staring Kathy Bates. But Ridgefield resident Jane Stern is also a fourth-generation tarot reader.
She has a new book coming out in June, “Confessions of a Tarot Reader: Practical Advice from This Realm and Beyond.”
What might you expect from this book? That depends on what you’re looking for and on your perspective on tarot cards.
I think similar advice could be presented in several different ways, but until you come across the advice you need in the way you need to hear it, it may not take root with you. Maybe this book will be the conduit that speaks to you.
In 22 chapters and under 200 pages, Stern walks the reader through the major arcana of the tarot deck. There are 78 cards in a full tarot deck but, Stern points out, the 22 major arcana of cards are “the heart of the tarot.”
She takes the reader on a journey, following the Fool through the deck. Along the way, she illustrates the significance of each card with examples from clients for whom she has done readings.
It makes for a readable type of self-help book — if you see yourself in one or more of the circumstances described in the book, you may get some insight on how to move forward.
Stern describes herself as a “clean reader,” meaning she is not a witch or medium. She’s not a “party psychic.” In the book, she comes across more as a counselor or advisor who uses the tarot deck as a tool to address her client’s issues.
With Stern as the guide, what may be to some a mysterious, otherworldly, possibly dangerous thing to do becomes more of a practical approach to facing up to the reality of one’s own life. As with any adviser, some clients follow the advice from their readings, some do not.
Each chapter begins with a quote from a different source. The sources range from literary figures to psychoanalysts, political figures, playwrights and religious texts.
Some will bring a smile to your face — all have some connection to aspects of a particular card being discussed.
A touch of mystery is also found at the beginning of each chapter. The chapters open with the illustration of a card from a particular tarot deck Stern favors. The richly saturated hues and moody lighting of each image convey a touch of mystery throughout the pages.
This book does not equip a neophyte to go into business as a tarot reader, but does shine some light on the possible meanings of the major arcana cards as they may turn up in a reading.
It educates the reader about the tarot deck, and it may provide advice the reader needs in the way they need to receive it. Whatever draws the reader in, he or she will find an interesting read.
Source newstimes.com
Tarot Card Reader Releases New Book
A Maine Tarot Reader Jeanne Fiorini, who has been performing readings for over 20 years in South Portland has recently released a new book.
The new Tarot Book is titled “Tarot Spreads and Layouts” and is focused on the teaching of the Tarot craft. Tarot Reader Jeanne Fiorini is also the founder of Tarot Works which is a Main based company which devotes itself to teaching Tarot Card Reading and spreading the knowledge of the craft.
Interviewed by keepmecurrent.com, Tarot Reader Jeanne Fiorini gives a Question and Answer session with the paper.
Q: How did you get interested in tarot reading? How long did it take you to master the reading?
A: I like to say that the Tarot is like the board game “Othello” in that it takes “a minute to learn and a lifetime to master.” A person can learn the basic tenets of the Tarot system in a few months; to really have a working knowledge of the system takes longer. But something that is true about the Tarot, and what drew me to the system in the first place, is that useful information can be had -whether you’re a beginner or an advanced student – if you’re using effective methods. The new “Tarot Spreads and Layouts” book is chocked full of effective methods!Q: How accurate is a tarot reading? Can it really predict the future?
A: The “telling the future” aspect of Tarot is part of the misinformation that swirls around the deck and how it is used. The Tarot is nothing more than an extension of our own consciousness. There is nothing magical or mystical or otherworldly about it. The cards themselves are nothing more than pieces of paper with pictures on them. But in the same way that a straw helps us draw water from a glass, the Tarot allows us to access parts of consciousness of which we are not necessarily aware.
The quantum reality of the 21st century is the fact that the world – and our experience of it – is in a constant state of flux and change. We no longer have the luxury (or the curse) of a future that is written in stone. Using the Tarot can help clarify current situations, confirm a person’s intuitive thoughts and knowing, validate a person’s self-awareness, support a person in the attainment of goals and other matters of personal development, as yes, can put forth a “most-likely outcome.” But these projected outcomes are more about percentages and “waves of probability” than fortune telling, and shouldn’t be taken as absolute truths in any way, shape, or form.Q: On your website, tarotworks.com, the catchphrase of TarotWorks is “Tarot as a tool for authentic living.” What does that mean?
A: The best use of the Tarot helps people become creatively involved in their own unfolding process: to build a future of their own making, to become the hero in their own story, to manifest a life in which they can be fully invested and true to themselves. This doesn’t mean that we can have everything that we want, but it does mean that we can use all available tools and abilities to be as fully present in our life as possible. Working with the Tarot can help us accomplish this by expanding our conscious awareness, allowing us to see our options more clearly, and by validating thoughts and feelings thereby giving voice to our hopes, dreams, and visions for the future.Q: You do tarot readings through telephone calls and Skype sessions. How do this differ than in person readings?
A: The Internet has changed the face of many businesses and this includes Tarot reading. Many of my clients live out-of-state, which makes face-to-face readings impossible. With telephone readings, it used to be the case that the client was not able to get a visual impression of the cards. But now with Skype technology that problem is erased. So, if a client in Minnesota- or Sweden-wants an in-person session, if we can work out the time zones we can make it happen! People don’t need to share the same physical space in order for a Tarot reading to work. The energy and information of the reading happens without physical proximity being an issue- another example of quantum principles in action. The science of the 21st century supports what metaphysical systems throughout the ages have consistently displayed: that the universe and everything in it exists within a web of physical and energetic connections. The Tarot is simply one way to access our intrinsic connections to other parts of the web of life.Q: Who is the target audience for your book and what do you hope readers take from reading it?
A: The new book is exactly what the title indicates: a user’s guide for beginning and intermediate students of the Tarot. There are many, many books available about Tarot card meanings, but there are very few good books containing simple and effective methods for using the cards. Each year millions of people buy Tarot card decks and companion books, and are left with the question, “Now what do I do? How do I get helpful and useful information from these cards?” This would be like buying a generator with a complete description of all the component parts but not being given any directions for how to hook it up. My book is the one to read after learning some basic Tarot card meanings.
For any Maine Tarot Card Reading enthusiasts, Tarot Reader Jeanne Fiorini will be performing a presentation at the Maine Mall Borders bookstore on March 15 at 7 pm. The presentation will be an interactive discussion of the major points of the book, and will take real-life questions from the audience to demonstrate some of the simple cards methods described therein. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and for signing.
Tarot Reader and Psychic Lady Amythyst Raine
Today we feature a Tarot Reader and Psychic – Lady Amythyst Raine, located in Omaha Nebraska.
Lady Amythyst Raine is a professional tarot reader, psychic, and clairvoyant. Lady Amythyst Raine uses the intuitive method of reading tarot cards, and she has recently finished a manuscript for a book based on this practice. Lady Amythyst Raine gives online tarot readings, as well as in-house readings at various local new-age shops, live radio readings, and private telephone readings. Lady Amythyst Raine also posts video readings on Youtube and Myspace; this is an option she offers her clients at her tarot site. Although the tarot is her favored form of divination, Lady Amythyst Raine also uses the pendulum for dowsing.
http://ladyamythyst.webs.com/tarotreadings.htm
Lady Amythyst Raine is a wildly eclectic, self-initiated, solitary Witch. She includes in her practice of the Craft hoodoo, various aspects of Wicca—from a variety of traditions, philosophies of Dianic Wicca, Green Witchcraft, ceremonial magick/kitchen wytchery, as well as practices that she has developed for herself over the years and which she has found successful and fulfilling.
Lady Amythyst Raine is a legally ordained member of the clergy, receiving my ordination from The Church of Spiritual Humanism, by R. A. Zorger, on November 10, 2007; and Lady Amythyst Raine is a Reverend of the Universal Life Church, ordained on March 3, 2010, by Pastor Kevin Andrews. Lady Amythyst Raine chose the Wiccan title of ‘Lady’ as her professional clergical title. Currently, Lady Amythyst Raine is the High Priestess of the Coven of Bristolwicks, a closed, female only coven of 13 individuals. They are her Sisters, equals, friends, and inspiration.
Lady Amythyst Raine is a Reiki practitioner, she explains “receiving my Reiki Level I Attunement from my closest friend and Reiki Master, which made the experience moving, incredibly meaningful and spiritually fulfilling”. She, in turn, received her attunements from her grandmother. “This is a fascinating world of healing and serenity, and I feel I will be a student of Reiki throughout this lifetime and many lifetimes to come. I also practice crystal therapy, herbology, and chakra balancing”.
Lady Amythyst Raine is the creator/webmistress of The Witch’s Corner, where she has online shops—Wytchy Wares, Enchanted Jewelry, and Creations by Isabella. At this website you will find information and links to books, rituals, sabbats, spells, and other topics that will help you on your Pagan path. You will also reconnect with the Mother Goddess. In the course of this endeavor, Lady Amythyst Raine is also an artist, web designer, pagan activist, animal activist, paranormal investigator, and occasional radio personality.
Lady Amythyst Raine’s life is neither glamorous nor exotic– it consists of mountains of laundry, piles and piles of dishes, an often cluttered living space, lots of cats, heavy traffic, conflicting schedules, and always in the background– that wonderful steady ‘hum’ that is Life.