What Can a Tarot Reading Reveal About Your Life?

A Tarot reading can reveal hidden patterns, unconscious intentions, personal motivations and possible directions in your life. By combining the symbolic meanings of the cards with your unique circumstances, a skilled Tarot reader can offer insight into change, free will, relationships, choices and personal growth.

Tarot Newsletter – September 2026

How Does Tarot Reveal Hidden Patterns?

All divination tools like the Tarot, reveal something hidden. Arcana in the Tarot, for example, represents revealed, esoteric secrets. Some are larger than others like our dreamlife. We have big and little dreams throughout our lives.

Our divination tools offer knowledge, understanding and discernment, of a nature that cannot be accessed through any other source. The usefulness of that information, however, depends on the central values adopted and prescribed by that magical system.

The Tarot deck proposes a cosmic philosophy that describes and prescribes an evolution of human consciousness. Shuffling the cards brings these magical values of randomness, unconsciousness, and present-ness into play in an original depiction that tells us something about your story now. Within the context of an archetypal, infinite one.

The Tarot cards depict a collective story of consciousness evolution in the Fool’s Journey to Enlightenment. In the context of a personal tarot reading, that big story depicts a personal, spiritual, evolutionary story. You are now the protagonist in the big story, as opposed to the collective, at its centre. You are the High Priestess, Magician and Devil in this unique, random story. You will only hear this once at this time in your life. Yes, it has power due to all these factors in play.

The Spiritual Value of Change

The Tarot reading nudges us in directions that encourage optimism. It offers an archetypal perspective and a belief in the necessity and value of change. We never have trouble embracing the positive change that we create! We know from experience that collective change is designed and propagandized by those who own the planet and as the little folk we simply scramble to get out of the way and survive. Sometimes that’s all we can aim for during times of upheaval. We hate change that is foisted upon us through loss.

We structure space, time, and nature from a strong ego position in our western culture. We tell ourselves fables that calm our anxieties. We are in control. Nothing will ever change unless we co-create. Once we get everything planted, we’re good until we determine otherwise.

When our perceived existence slips out of sync again, we panic. “The fates are against us!”, we lament. Nothing ever stays the same but like a default position, we return to it immediately following any change or crisis that wasn’t in our order to life.

An expert Tarot interpreter combines a sensitivity to the meanings of the cards, with the person anxiously waiting to hear the outcomes. A gifted reader does not repeat traditional fixed meanings, but rather they will find personal meanings and interpretations.

Part of a reader’s training includes a classic study of the cards while another part supports a personal knowledge of them through practice, meditation, and creative work. It takes dedicated study and practice to become a reader who can heal, guide, and predict.

What Makes Someone a Skilled Tarot Reader?

I’ve been reading for almost 45 years and have had the profound privilege of reading for thousands of clients throughout umpteen venues from tea rooms to events, parties, shows, personal practice and online. I have upped and honed my interpretative work, benefiting enormously from each one.

Now I embrace the challenge of teaching others to reach deeply within themselves to become the professional reader of their dreams. The more I have taught over the years, the more I have come to appreciate how complex the process truly is.

Why a College of Tarot Exists at All?

What about Free Will and the Role of Fate?

How Do Tarot Readings Balance Free Will and Fate?

What does free will mean in the context of a psychic reading, when the ultimate purpose of a reading is to determine a destiny?

We exercise free will to the degree we are conscious. Our natural gifts, limitations, social conditioning and life experience construct our world view. People who have undergone analysis with the intent to become more conscious, are better equipped to live more fully from a position of free will than someone who remains unconscious of their primary feelings, motivations, and aversions. Our beliefs drive behaviour. Habits, patterns, partnerships, work, and self-image are a few examples.

Our destiny is a cosmic dance between opportunity and our free-will choices; both conscious and unconscious.

Tarot readings are cosmically aligned to reveal unconscious intention, much to many clients’ surprise. Whether your destiny is being skewed by a paucity of options or by your wildly free, unconscious sabotage. A Tarot reading is a life-altering tool, revealing both sides of the coin. With greater inner awareness, encouragement and support, we are better equipped to make decisions that are wiser, healthful and self-actualizing.

Death as a Mindfulness Tool

Can a Tarot Reading Predict Death?

There are other methodologies effective in supporting the journey to becoming more mindful. Yoga, meditation, psychotherapy, dream interpretation and the therapeutic use of psychedelics to name a few. In combination with an effective oracle reading and/or mindfulness study, life-altering shifts are accomplished in our consciousness.

Many folks over 60, hesitate to consult a Tarot reader for fear their departure to spirit will be revealed. They might even be irresistibly tempted to ask! I don’t predict earthly departures. I’ve been known to not-too-gently nudge people to be aware that they won’t be earth-bound forever. The time is nigh to be living their best lives. Be vigilant to mitigate for those nasties on the death bed like regret, longing, and self-castigation. Some matters to keep in mind at any age but the wiser in years we become, the closer the death bed looms.

Our awareness of unavoidable death, years hence, is what separates us (as far as we know) from the rest of the mammal kingdom. Death-awareness is our most eloquent teacher. Hear her words in your ear every day, and I guarantee you will become an aficionado at living your best life. Without compromise. That is the easiest and most accessible tool for mindfulness that the divine granted us.

But if focusing on your end gets old, a Tarot reading might be just the thing.

Wishing you a beautiful autumnal season!

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Frequently Asked Questions About Tarot Readings and Free Will

A Tarot reading can explore possible future directions, but the future is not necessarily fixed. Your choices, circumstances and level of awareness all influence how your life unfolds. Tarot can help illuminate possibilities rather than remove your ability to choose.

A Tarot reading can reveal hidden patterns, unconscious intentions, motivations and possible directions in your life. The cards provide an archetypal perspective that can help you understand your current circumstances with greater awareness.

Free will and fate can be understood as working together. Our conscious and unconscious choices influence the opportunities available to us, while a Tarot reading can help reveal patterns that may be affecting those choices.

Tarot can encourage greater self-awareness by bringing unconscious feelings, motivations and patterns into consciousness. This awareness can help you make decisions that are more thoughtful, healthy and aligned with your goals.

Knowing traditional Tarot meanings is only part of becoming an effective reader. A skilled Tarot reader also develops interpretive sensitivity through study, practice, meditation and creative work, allowing the cards to be interpreted in relation to the individual person and situation.

A Tarot reading can provide perspective during periods of change by helping you explore what is happening beneath the surface. It can encourage you to recognize patterns, consider new possibilities and approach change with greater awareness.

A Tarot reading does not have to be used to predict death, and Kathleen does not predict a person’s earthly departure. Instead, awareness of mortality can encourage us to pay attention to how we are living now and to avoid leaving important things unresolved.

The Fool’s Journey is the Tarot’s archetypal story of human consciousness and spiritual development. In a personal Tarot reading, the larger journey becomes a framework for understanding the individual’s experiences, challenges, choices and growth.

How Can a Tarot Reading Help You Live More Consciously?

Perhaps the greatest value of a Tarot reading is not being told exactly what will happen. It is discovering what may be happening inside you that you have not yet recognized.

Our unconscious intentions, habits, fears, beliefs and desires can quietly influence the choices we make. Sometimes we see the pattern only after we have repeated it several times. A Tarot reading can hold up a different kind of mirror, one that invites us to look beneath the obvious story.

Free will does not mean that we control everything that happens to us. Life will always bring change, loss, opportunity and circumstances beyond our control. What we can develop is greater awareness of how we respond.

That is where Tarot becomes particularly interesting.

The cards offer an archetypal story, but your life is the personal story unfolding within it. You are not simply watching the Fool’s Journey. You are living it.

And perhaps that is why change, however uncomfortable, can become such a valuable teacher. When we become more conscious of ourselves, we have more freedom to choose how we want to live.

Death awareness offers another powerful reminder. We do not have unlimited time. We can spend our lives trying to control every outcome, or we can become more attentive to the life that is actually happening right now.

If you are at a crossroads, experiencing a major change, repeating an old pattern, or simply curious about what your cards might reveal, a personal Tarot reading can offer another perspective.

Ready to explore what your Tarot cards may reveal?

Book a confidential Tarot reading with Kathleen and discover what your current cards may be showing you about your choices, patterns, relationships and next steps.