The Frequency of a Tarot Reading
There are moments when a tarot reading lands so perfectly it almost takes your breath away.
When a seeker keeps a long story tucked away, asking only a short question, and the reader catches exactly what they mean. When the reader offers a few stumbling keywords that strike true, ringing all the way to the deepest corner of the seeker’s heart.
When meaning lines up that completely, with neither person spelling it out, some marvel, “That reading was channeling something.” But others put it another way:
“We were on the same frequency.”
Your Language and Mine
Even the most skilled tarot reader doesn’t reach everyone. Each person has a different temperament, a different reading style they’re drawn to.
However many colors a reader can fan out, none of it amounts to a foolproof formula — so some seekers will always feel a reading slip past them. And so a seeker sometimes goes looking, for a reader who shares their frequency.
So what is this “frequency”? Some mystical force, a wave of resonant energy? Or an unseen, cosmic communion?
Here’s what I think frequency really is:
“When two people’s languages truly meet.”
Your World and Mine
The most popular topic in tarot is, without a doubt, love. And yet people take that one word — “love” — to mean such different things.
For one person, love is sharing, to give and take as much as you can. For another, it’s devotion, to sacrifice and serve without holding back. And for someone else, love is an ache, something to be endured without end.
And it isn’t only how people see love that varies — the way each person lives it out differs just as much. Some speak of parting the moment love cools even slightly. Others hold on to the very end, even after being hurt again and again. Some count it real love only when every hour is shared. Others, however deeply they love, still need a space of their own to breathe.
Now suppose a reader and a seeker stand on either side of that same word, “love,” each looking through different eyes. Suppose that with some other shared word too, their gazes fall on entirely different worlds.
Then a reading the reader was sure they’d delivered whole may not reach the seeker at all.
Because the reader’s language belonged to a different world than the seeker’s.
Our Frequency
That’s why I think a tarot reading needs a kind of compatibility. A compatibility where reader and seeker can each take in the other’s language.
That compatibility — I’d like to call it the “frequency” between the two.