Telling the Truth

When asked to do a tarot reading I have a little ritual I do. First I clear my mind of all the days events and fill my mind with the person who has asked me to do the reading. Then I stand in front of my tarot collection and let the decks speak to me. One deck always jumps out stronger than others for whatever reason. Today was different. Someone very dear to me asked me to do a reading for her because she said her house feels "off". I clear my mind, then concentrate on her, the stand to pick out a deck. I stood for a very long time. No deck jumped out at me. so I asked the powers that be, what gives? Then I got the answer. Two decks. I have never had to read two readings for the same person at the same time. I was so confused. I grabbed my altar cloth and did as was asked of me. I shuffled and cut the first deck, wrote down the reading and paused before I shuffled the second deck. The second reading was better defined than the first but said the same thing. Then came the hard part. Telling my dear loved one the truth of the readings. I have never had to read off something so hard in all my days. Giving someone bad news, stern warnings, and hard to hear facts difficult at best. I love this young lady with every ounce of my being and hurting her is the last thing I wanted to do. I wonder who has it hardest in times like these. but I digress. For her own sound mind I knew I had to tell her. I knew it was going to be hard for her to hear. and I knew nobody was going to like it. I can only hope that the warnings were heard as well as the love in my voice when I was trying to calm the tears. People rarely think about the consequences when they first learn to read tarot or perform divination. Nobody thinks that anything awful might happen. It does happen and you have to be prepared to speak the truth and speak it wisely. I have now had tears of joy, tears of sorrow, laughing, jumping, out and out anger, and other types of what I would call extreme emotions shown during a reading. Once I did a reading that scared me out of my mind. Its funny the things you can find out about people. Things you never want to know. However, the truth must be told and learning to do that in a way that you wont be shut out, wont be fought with about it, and accepted takes tact and a bit of knowledge in reading personalities. We cant get it right 100% of the time but we should at least try. In the end it can only do good. After all it is what the seeker seeks.