By Lalia Wilson
Image from the Ancestral Path Tarot by Julie Cuccia-Watts, published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
When you track a group of readings, all in the same day, or at the same event, it gives you a meta-reading of the whole. It’s probably been fifteen or twenty years since I was part of the entertainment at a certain Halloween Party—reading the cards. Maybe many of you have done the same. I did my usual draw three cards for each person. Each time the deck was randomized, and the other person, not me, drew 3 cards from anywhere in the deck. I’m not sure how many readings I did in total, probably 15-20. I was amazed to see several cards repeatedly show up. However, I was not recording the cards, so I don’t have a good log of which cards they were or how often they showed up. I can say that the individuals were connected, all invited to the same event, so finding common themes should not have been a surprise. Since that time I make it a practice to note repeated cards when I am doing readings for more than one person—or even if you do three short readings (health, money, love…) for an individual and keep getting the same card! It’s important. If one client wants three short readings and the same card shows up each time, this is something important, even if it seemingly does not relate to the question. The Universe is trying to get a message through to those who will receive it.
About this time I also came across an assertion that Carl Jung had known years ahead of time that the Germans would start WWII, because his psychotherapy clients in Vienna, people who likely had no connection other than the same therapist, kept dreaming about an ominous black force rising in the east. Jung knew that since this same image kept coming up, that something was arising that would later manifest on the physical plane. He was vindicated, though he surely did not welcome the horrors of the war.
Having noticed how cards tend to repeat themselves, I developed a tracking form that I use when I do the Tarot Scopes article, or any other time I do several readings the same day. I track how many of each card appear and note those who are overrepresented and those that are not present. This forms a meta-reading for all those read for at that time and place. It’s valuable information if you want to follow trends in the world. I urge you to do the same.