It’s only been 5 years that my intuitive skills have screamed to be used, and I have to remind myself that 5 years out of 46 is not very many. I have to remind myself I’m in the baby stages of consciously working with and refining my abilities. I have to remind myself I don’t know what I’m capable of, or what the physical toll is.
At the beginning of the year, I offered to do in-person tarot-card-readings at my friends’ brewery every Sunday. I’ve done readings there a handful of times before, when we’ve had large events/parties, and I’ve learned a shit-ton every time. (I’ve also had a few spectacular energy-hangovers afterwards–but I am happy to report I think I’ve learned how to avoid those now.)
I offered because I wanted to learn more about how and what I was capable of regarding intuitive readings.
Intuition is like a muscle. The more you use it the stronger it gets.
(I also offered because, historically, January is an abysmally slow time for breweries because the world is “getting healthy” as part of their New Year’s resolutions. I figured if we offered readings all those customer who say, “I’m so sorry I missed when you were doing tarot cards! I really wanted a reading, but…” could finally get a reading, and we may get more customers in the door than January normally warrants.)
Here are 3 of the things I’ve learned from doing in-person readings consecutively at the brewery:
I will only read for one person at a time. If you want to tell your friends about your reading that’s your choice, but you deserve to process without having a group looking on. It can get intense, and last weekend was the weekend readings kept making everyone cry.
Ten is my maximum. There’s a distinct energy crash that happens around the tenth reading. I can (& have) pushed up to 14, but I feel like a drunk-cartoon mouse at that point and find it difficult to function mentally (& sometimes physically.)
The real-time validations build my confidence. Every time a person confirms something like, “I did get sick in Bali!” or tells me, “This is spot on,” followed by an explanation that goes deeper into whatever has come through for them, it helps me feel like what I do is meaningful, accurate, and a worthwhile use of my energy.
The past weekend is the week I pushed to 14 readings, and it was too much.
I recorded a 7 cards reading on Monday, but it felt clunky and off. 8 cards came out; every message felt wrong; the final sum-up card felt like complete & total bullshit. I tried for 5 consecutive hours to upload it, and it never would, so I accepted that message wasn’t supposed to go out.
For those of you who still want some guidance this week, the cards I pulled were:
GROUNDING
CLEANSE
MEDITATE
MIRROR
LEADERSHIP
CONNECTION
BOUNDARIES
SOLITUDE
Next week I’ll cap myself at ten readings on Sunday and have more confidence we can get back to regularly scheduled programming.
Have a good week and I hope you get to see the sunshine where you are today!