I did not suggest that ALL people who seek advice don't embrace spirituality. You cut off before the very next sentence where I said of course spirituality is a part of it.

What I was getting at is that people coming to you for advice initially are often at the place where they are seeking more "at the moment" advice let's say. You have to build into the place where they are receptive to opening up to more inner guidance and spiritual answers. When someone feels they are in trouble, they may not be immediately receptive to the idea of a higher purpose for their pain. It is a marathon not a sprint to get there. I never said that I discourage people from looking inside themselves.

In fact I always encourage clients to seek the lessons and wisdom in all of their experiences. I don't tell them "what to do" or what IS going to happen etc. I highlight lessons and choices both intuitive and via the cards.

I DO encourage my clients to look inside themselves for answers. I DO promote whole being wellness and I DO believe that we are all able to connect with the Source as we are all a part of it.

My personal website is Spiritual Guidance Tarot - I absolutely promote whole being wellness and empowering others to seek their higher sense of self and purpose. I think there have been some misunderstandings here. That's the challenge of forums and typed words over face to face conversations I suppose.

hi christin,
i m not really going to keep going posting on this thread,so it s going to be my last post.
you put anarticle on about what makes a strong reader.there are no strong readers,strongreaders or people who look for that pattern are those who want to cover up their weaknesses.have an action on strenghth creates weaknesses,and your article is full of them.
wanting to cut death out of readings makes no sense to me why don t you just take the card out of the deck and do readings without it.death is not taboo as you say, in front of the universe nothing is.some people think it is wise to create those divisions cause they like to control dictate and have power over one soul and nature itself.taboo doesn t exist but in the lower spheres.
if people come in front of tarot readers that tell them they are cursed,to scare them it s up to the client not to be scared.on the a multidiensional level, they ve been attracted to each other and even that has a purpose.those things have to be left alone.cause they are initiations on the higher levels.
what if you re really cursed?
did you know that the biggest initiations come from curses/that the mother of all abomination is the biggest initiator of all?
well then you should know better and let your head be filled in by somebody who says he helps you.
there is no strength to be found in someone who cuts away wha he can t deal with.
you didnt try to discuss anything,you dodged,brought up traditionnal trends like "MISUNDERSTANDING".there s no misundersdtanding when i read the article.
most of the point s are moreover business oriented.
you even come up with the excuse that misunderstanding is coming from the fact were not face to face.that is not very spiritual,i think.i don t talk to a person s face, but it s soul,i don t need to see the body.why do you post here then?
i ve been talking to a lot of people here but never have there been msunderstandings or excuses,just growth.because it never was a matter of being right or wrong.
the truth is your article is full of weaknesses so the strong reader trend is just used to cover those up.
even in your last post you didn t try or duscuss anything but felt that your image has been hurt so you advertise your site.i don t see the point and it doesn t have to go that far as we were just discussing.you re a more a business woman than a reader.if you did feel passion for the tarot you would go with it and not try to use it as a tool of power, or trying to dshonour other readers whether they are evil or not.you have a purpose just like they do.the only difference was that i m discussing with you not with them.
marathon,sprint is vocabulary from the competition realm just as is strong.this is not a competition christin.it is an initiation.
you re obviously here for the business.
and there s nothing wrong with that.as i just stated earlier it hinders.
my passion for the tarot drives me to keep it pure.
and i don t feel that by making myself stand out or pointing the finger on usurpers does make it justice.
and justice is not what your article is about.
the church desecrated the true gods and just like people today desecrate the tarot.
blod line of witches and ancestry does play a role but not in the way of advetisement,like they do with product "sice 1792".
they doexist and play a role.some people here descend from a long line of witches,but ancestry doesn t only work on the physical level,but also on the spiritual.you just put it up as lie without argument or any development.there mo middle, no balance.you try to make people feel comfortable but make them paranoid.
at best you re authoritarian,and a queen of swords by writing like that and that hurts.
this article is about you not the people you read for.
again it was just a discussion,and i m done with it.

I can see that a different Tarot guide will be better suited to this site as my ideas obviously are not apparently in sync with the beliefs/ideas expressed here.

I was not "advertising" I mentioned my site with NO link to illustrate that I do in fact take a spiritual approach to the Tarot. It wasn't an ulterior motive, but I can see by the tone here that my views are not welcome.

I am not really going to continue to have everything I say twisted and picked apart. No matter what I say or what I try to add to the discussion or clarify - it isn't going to matter.

christin,of course it is advertisement,it snot because there s no link it isn t ,as you put this down so i go there,taking into account you know no link is needed especially links are not easy to pass on here.but it doesn t matter cause you re free to do what you want.you launched a discussion,and you don t want to discuss anything you say.i m not twisting or picking apart.i didn t accuse you of not helping people.therefore i m not gonna go on your site nor does it help clarify anything were talking about here.
i gave you my opinion on your article,but you just don t discuss anything and you think not being in sync with others is wrong.thats what life is about.
i asked 3 times the same questions, i never had an answer fromyou as toyour point of view,you answer by something else that is not relevant or that casts a shadow.it s not my fault if you can t deal with it.
i m for growth and you can t grow without pain.
if you want things to matter say things that matter tothe conversation.it s not my fault.you re that passionate about tarot but you back down.passion goes deep.
i m obviously not going to go on with the discussion as i had my answers even if you didn t give me any.so on my side i m fine.
so please christin stop the victim trend.
we are all spiritual,and we all have spiritual approaches to things,but what are they?

if you do take a spiritual approach to the tarot that s fine,but that doesn t really say anything.it lacks depth.
you wrote an article i gave you my opinion,the only thing that matters is that you re really in sync with yourself.
if you think that life is about saying things and that people follow without them having their say,then think again.

and i m going to add this, that it was actually a very interesting topic that deserved more involvement and discussions.

as you said so yourself,nothing is set in stone,so your article isn t either.but you sound like it is.one day you ll probably see things differently because life is about change.
i love to learn thats why i don t stop at disagreeing and agreeing patterns because that is what most people look for which is the end.learning is illumination and you don t learn anything by agreeing and disagreeing.if you look at the devil card,on one side there s agreeing on the other there is disagreeing,they have been seperated and can t be as one.
there is no end just growth,just as death is not the end.
security is an illusion and everything has to be shaken all the time so we can reap die and grow.