It is not helpful to group all professional tarot readers together into one category. Consider what kind of professional you’re searching for if you’re trying to hire a professional tarot reading. Here are some examples of the various sorts I’ve observed based on my experiences and observations:
The Psychic, the Intuitive, the Empathic, or even the Holistic Reader come to mind when you consider the traditional practice of tarot reading (the Holistic may be straddling the line between Traditional and Modernmore on that later).
Tarot Card Reader, psychic. I’m going to use the term loosely because I don’t understand what “psychic” actually means. Some claim to be psychics on their own, and others have been referred to as such by their clients so frequently that they unwillingly accept the label in their title. The psychic tarot reader is a person with the power to perceive our past, present, and future forks independently of the tarot cards. They appear to have the ability to glimpse the future since they can predict people’s future trajectories with a surprising degree of precision. Alternately, they could be someone with a natural talent for conversing with supernatural (or otherworldly) spirits. These readers possess a certain gift biologically from birth, albeit it can be developed and cultivated (or suppressed). Now, if you give them a deck of tarot cards, something magicalor at least psychichappens. My major issue with psychic tarot readers is that they make up just a small percentage of all tarot readers, if any at all, making it difficult for the average individual to tell the difference between a real psychic tarot reader and a con artist.
clairvoyant tarot reader A great gift is also held by the intuitive tarot reader, however it differs slightly from psychic ability. The intuitive tarot reader has an amazing capacity for truth-finding. They can assist you in separating fact from fantasy in the utmost sensible way from a place hardly rational. Similar to swords, intuitive readers assist you understand by clearing the road by cutting through all the unnecessary weeds.
Tarot reader with empathy. The Empathic Tarot Reader is someone who can feel exactly what you feel, who can sense energies in an environment, and who can extract accurate emotional data from those energies. If the Intuitive is someone who can swerve for the truth in any situation, the Empathic Tarot Reader is someone who feels exactly what you feel. Since our emotions are our truths, the actions taken by the Empathic and the Intuitive aren’t all that dissimilar. Through various routes, they reach the same place. Readers with empathy are like the Cups (or Chalices). Spiritual counselors that are empathic are amazing. (That should be distinguished from counselors who are licensed, though.) Empathics experience what you experience and, as a result, are able to comprehend you in a manner that no one else seems to be able to. That shared understanding can be cathartic and validating, and it may be just what you needed to help you progress.
comprehensive tarot reader The Holistic Tarot Reader uses tarot together with other techniques to offer, well, a holistic experience. In addition to bringing in numerology, astrology, and runes, they may also use the I Ching or oracle cards following the tarot reading. They have a feel of the energies that different types of incense can excite, the energies that various crystals and gemstones can magnify, and they generally draw on a vast body of studied knowledge to combine with the reading. In terms of how they read cards, they take into account the esoteric knowledge that such imagery alludes to as well as the context of the tarot signs and symbols before using metaphors and archetypes to assist you comprehend the situation’s overall context. Though not all holistic tarot readers are intuitive or empathic, they can nonetheless be holistic in their approach.
Not many tarot readers who work professionally fall neatly into just one of those categories. Each one will be a mix of the aforementioned traits, however they might lean more toward intuition or empathy. Readers of the psychic tend to be both. However, not all readers who are intuitive and empathic are psychic. I hope that was clear. Additionally, very few tarot readers are one-trick ponies, therefore the most of them will be somewhat holistic.
Despite the fact that we live in modern times, the majority of tarot readers still adhere to the conventional methods described above. However, over the past ten or so years, a few new varieties have emerged.
comprehensive tarot reader See the Traditional section above. Although holistic tarot readers have undoubtedly existed since the beginning of tarot reading, a more defined method that keeps holism in mind has only lately been developed. For this reason, I include them in both the Traditional and Modern categories. The contemporary holistic reader may use reiki, feng shui, or even just chat to you about chakras while giving you a tarot reading. Transpersonal psychology may have a big impact on your meetings with them.
The Tarot Guidance. This expert is a certified therapist, social worker, or counselor. According to the law, this person is qualified to be compensated for counseling services because they have completed the required institutionalized education. The Tarot Counselor also incorporates tarot into their counseling work and is a good tarot reader. I’m not sure if it’s simply the crowd I hang out with, but from where I stand, the quantity of this kind of tarot reader is constantly increasing. Tarot reading’s psychoanalytical component is now more widely acknowledged and appears less and less occult. Consider a tarot-using counselor or therapist if you’re seeking for one.
the Life Coach of the Tarot. I believe that life coaches do not need to be licensed or certified, but if I am mistaken, please correct me. There are no prerequisites for schooling, licensure, or certification to launch a business as a life coach (kind of like tarot readers). In a word, life coaches assist you in determining your goals and then in creating a plan of action to reach those goals. They are then expected to support you and inspire you along the road. Again, current experts are aware of the extraordinary strength and value of tarot, and many Life Coaches use it to assist their clients.
The reader of the Tarot. The Tarot Interpreter sees the Tarot as a text, a book, or simply a tool that brings knowledge from the unconscious realm to the conscious plane so that it might be useful. Whether using a book or gadget, tarot reading is most accurate when performed by a person with extensive card reading training and understanding. Like one of those TI-85 calculators, anyone with no education or experience can pick one up and use it, but good luck accomplishing anything interesting with one without it! The Tarot Interpreter performs translational duties. In a sense, you approach the cards directly; the Tarot Interpreter then converts the tarot’s language (its signs and symbols) into something you might better understand.
Professional readers of tarot will develop their own style, which is often a fusion of some of the aforementioned categories. I consider myself to be a hybrid tarot reader and interpreter. While it would be ideal to have tarot experts providing crucial details about their reading approaches so you can determine what kind of reader they are, it’s possible that this won’t happen. Review the information above to determine the kind of tarot reader you’re searching for, and then locate one with a reading style that fits that description.
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What industry do tarot readings fall under?
Knowing your NAICS Code is the first step to filing your Schedule Cs, or IRS Form 1040, which is the schedule a sole proprietorship, or your small firm that isn’t incorporated as a corporation, submits to record revenue and losses. Any business, regardless of its structure, will be given an NAICS Code.
The IRS and other government organizations use the NAICS Code (North American Industry Classification System) to catalog your company. It is the federal standard for business classification. Psychic services are typically categorized under NAICS Code # 812990. (See this; conduct a search for “ESP (Psi services.) I would anticipate that the majority of tarot experts, particularly those who advertise their services as psychic, would use NAICS #812990 ” (also titled “All other personal services).
Both “All other professional services,” NAICS Code # 541990, and “Other personal services,” NAICS Code # 812190, are acceptable categories for your tarot business. Both codes are also applicable to tarot practitioners who provide intuitive, spiritual, or life coaching services or who teach tarot. Since writing makes up the majority of my tarot work and writing is how I am paid for it, I classify as a writer “Individual performer, writer, or artist, NAICS code 711510.
Choose the Code that most accurately describes what you do if your professional tarot business combines some of the aforementioned aspects, as it most likely does.
You require tarot cards to operate a professional tarot business. The good news may be the best ever. Your recent purchases of tarot decks are now deductible as tax-deductible capital expenses. And if you want to run a professional tarot business, you need more than one deck since you need a variety of decks to pick from for each customer and each query. Just keep in mind that the IRS requires exclusivity; for more information on this issue, go here; this means, for instance, that your personal reading decks that you never use for professional readings won’t count.
Tarot readers require tarot reading cloths, incense, candles, crystals, and gemstones (yep, we’re going with that; we require these as part of our professional services; what, you didn’t know that?) So, yeah, all of theseitems are now suddenly tax deductible in order to effectively give our tarot readings. Everything you need to create a private place for your tarot reading “atmosphere as a qualified reader are currently tax deductible. All of your business’s capital expenses, such as stationary, office supplies, computers, website hosting fees, and Internet service providers, are tax deductible.
Again, the main criterion is exclusivity. It’s acceptable if you don’t use your home Internet service provider exclusively for your tarot business; just figure out what proportion of your usage is related to your tarot business. Keep in mind that reading tarot websites, going to tarot forums, and communicating with clients or potential clients via email are all now considered business expenses. Tarot forum visits and blog reading are examples of market research and professional development. So. What proportion of your home Internet access is used for your tarot business, taking all of this into account? 50 percent or so? Yeah? Then you can deduct 50% of your Internet bill from your taxes.
As a tarot reader, I’m presuming you now have a home office or other area in your home where you conduct business. Home office usage is tax deductible. On how to calculate it precisely, you should speak with a tax expert, but these are the fundamentals. There are two approaches: the usual approach and the streamlined approach.
As of this writing, the simplest option is to deduct up to 300 square feet of your home at a rate of $5.00 per square foot. Consider that your 300 square feet of home are dedicated to your professional tarot practice. You can claim $1,500 in tax-deductible expenses each year. If you only use 150 square feet, the cost is $750.
The standard procedure is to compute the dollar cost of that based on the actual expenses of your home, which you must be able to demonstrate with records, and to establish the percentage (percent) of your home that is used.
Let’s say your lease agreement and rental payments are proof that you are paying $2,000.00 in rent each month for 1,200 square feet of living space. Say you use 150 square feet of the 1,200 square feet for your tarot readings and other professional tarot services. This is the desk area where you conduct your Skype readings, arrange your playing cards, write most of your tarot blog posts (which is a component of your marketing and branding efforts), etc.
Therefore, you’re using 12.5% of your rental property to provide business tarot readings. $250 is 12.5% of your rental fee. Oh, and by the way, these are all offered solely as examples. My math is awful. I could have made a huge calculation error. Please only make the major point of this.
You are free to choose between the standard approach and the streamlined way, according to the IRS. Do the arithmetic for both approaches using your particular business scenario, and then choose the one that will benefit you the best.
Keep in mind that in order to claim a deduction for home office use, the space in question must be used solely for business purposes. It is not valid if not. So you can’t utilize your family room, for instance, especially if your family is using it. The only exception to this rule is if you use that area of your house for storage or business purposes. For instance, you might keep all the equipment necessary for your tarot reading services there, along with your deck of tarot cards. Tax deductions apply to that. See here for further details.
Every time you drive around town for tarot-related services or professional engagements, you should be keeping track of your mileage. The mileage accumulated for traveling to and from tarot classes contributes toward continuing education requirements for tarot professionals. Of course, traveling to and from tarot readings counts. Start keeping track of your mileage while you drive to and from restaurants, pubs, and other locations where you’ll be doing tarot readings to the public. Driving to and from tarot conferences, psychic fairs, and other expert tarot reading events all counts. Parking fees and most other travel expenditures are tax deductible (since you are now a professional tarot reader, you can now deduct hotel stays and plane tickets for attending tarot-related events).
You multiply the miles by 56 cents per mile when it comes to mileage (at least as of this writing; note that the dollar amount changes year to year). This means that if I drove 250 miles to and from a psychic fair where I was providing tarot services, I would be able to deduct $140 from my taxable business expenditures. You should keep a log of your business mileage in your car’s glove box. I’ve got a free download of a sample log table here (you can find it under the Tarot Worksheet Downloads tab on this website).
This is also enjoyable. Entertainment costs that you pay for in the regular course of operating your tarot business are deductible. Most businesspeople and professionals must occasionally entertain clients and potential clients, thus those costs are deductible as entertainment expenses. For tarot professionals, entertainment costs can include a luncheon with a colleague, mentor, or mentee. It might be a gathering of all the local tarot readers at a classy eatery.
Just keep in mind that the cost of the entertainment must be reasonable and that it must be something that the majority of tarot readers would do as part of growing and maintaining their tarot business. There must have been significant conversation about tarot and tarot business at that gathering, and it must be directly relevant to your professional work as a tarot reader. But, seriously. Most tarot readers will find these requirements to be easy to follow.
Remember that all of the expenses you incur for tarot conferences, psychic fairs, tarot professional association dues and other related membership fees, tarot classes, purchasing tarot books (to further your tarot education), and other educational books you purchase to develop your tarot business are tax deductible professional expenses.
Keeping a ton of records is crucial. Save all receipts going forward that have anything to do with your work as a tarot professional. I maintain my data in file folders and a filing cabinet, but I’ve seen small enterprises get by with little more than a shoebox. Whatever functions. To be able to prove every item you’ve claimed as a business expense is the goal. Observe contracts, billing statements, canceled checks, invoices, and receipts.
Keep flyers or well recorded information on the who, what, where, when, and why of a specific expense as a last resort. That is usually appropriate as well. Additionally, if the expense is less than $75, you won’t typically be arrested for lack of documentation.
These tax-deductible company expenses play a big role in explaining how and why so many of these large firms that you hear about and who are supposedly making tons of money lawfully pay no taxes. Even though the majority of tarot professionals won’t be working on that scale, knowing these fundamentals will still be quite helpful.
What kind of religion are tarot cards?
Tarot cards also include four suits, but they are different depending on the region: French suits are found in Northern Europe, Latin suits are found in Southern Europe, and German suits are found in Central Europe. Each suit contains 14 cards: four face cards (King, Queen, Knight, and Jack/Knave/Page) and ten pip cards, numbered from one (or Ace) to ten. In addition, the tarot features a unique 21-card trump suit and a solitary card known as the Fool; this 22-card group of cards is referred to as the Major Arcana in the world of divination. The Fool may serve as the top trump or alternatively may be played to avoid doing so, depending on the game. In parts of Europe, these tarot cards are still used to play traditional card games without any occult connotations.
Tarot cards are mostly employed for amusement and divination in English-speaking nations where these activities are less popular, typically with the aid of specially created packs. Although academic research has shown that tarot cards were partially invented in northern Italy in the 15th century (16 of the modern 22 Major Arcana cards) and combined with a deck of four suits, “the Mamluk deck,” some people who use tarot for cartomancy believe the cards have esoteric links to ancient Egypt, Iran, the Kabbalah, Indian Tantra, or the I Ching. The Mamluk deck of cards was created in or before the 14th century and arrived in Western Europe after paper was produced in Asia (see Playing Card – Egypt and following sections). By the end of the thirteenth century, Europeans were making the Mamluk deck with customized “court cards” and suit symbols.
Although some people think that tarot cards were not used for divination until the late 18th century, there is evidence of an early tarot deck that was “used in divination to determine the querent’s prospects in love” (Fernando de la Torre’s “Juego de Naypes” deck of Spain, 1450), each card having an image and verse.
Tarot cards are they a psychology?
Therefore, the least unusual location to shuffle a deck of cards is probably your therapist’s office. There have always been significant psychological uses to tarot cards. The cards are the perfect tools for therapeutic and mental health, according to psychoanalyst Carl Jung, who described them as a simple way to symbolize the “archetypes of mankind” or universal attributes like power, ambition, and passion.
Tarot cards are globally applicable and can help you visualize your circumstance, according to Columbia University’s Inna Semetsky, PhD. ” What you really desire becomes apparent once things are laid out. They assist you in externalizing your issues.
It’s all about the pictures, literally. Tarot cards allow you to storyboard your life. You can look at the cards and see colorful, palatable images of behaviors you may identify with and that are now assigned to you since the cards have been pulled for you. This is why tarot decks, with their simple symbolism, are so strangely useful in healing and therapeutic sessions. Your goals and concerns become more visible and require less therapy when you see them represented in pictures.
What does a psychic tarot reader do?
Intuition, according to tarot reader and spiritual advisor Meghan Rose, is “the capacity to perceive something without ration or conscious reasoning.” Therefore, when using tarot cards, the readerwho may be a professional or you if you’re reading your own cardsreceives messages from the cards that are intuitive and cannot be explained logically. They are intuitive. And since we all possess superhuman intuition, improving your intuitive tarot abilities is absolutely doable with some practice.
How are tarot cards used in psychotherapy?
In a typical tarot reading, the reader will shuffle the cards and draw cards for the client before analyzing and delving into the card meanings. It usually appears somewhat differently in a psychotherapy session.
Patients can be encouraged to use the cards in a variety of ways, such as picking cards at random or arranging all of the cards face up and choosing the images that resonate with them the most before explaining what those images mean to them. When clients utilize the cards independently, as opposed to traditional approaches that emphasize therapist facilitation, they frequently feel empowered and may even become more invested in the process.
4. Tarot cards offer a special way to access experiences that are otherwise hard to describe.