The occult has long held the concept that using reading cards can give one insight into the future. With effort and attention to the profession, anyone can learn how to use this supernatural power. Tarot cards can have a varied meaning and application for each user, despite the fact that they are frequently connected with gypsies and a faith in supernatural forces. The main objective is to have trust in the power of the cards, although you can believe that the power of the cards originates from pretty about anyplace.
The cards sometimes appear to offer incorrect readings, but that could just be because the true meaning of the cards was hidden or because the future predicted by the cards hasn’t yet come to pass. This skill isn’t always perfect. It’s also crucial to be aware that each card has a variety of possible interpretations.
The kind of card you select for your reading is entirely up to you; there are numerous different sorts that can be employed. Every deck of cards can occasionally be used to predict specific aspects of the future. Esoteric, Tarot de Marseille in occultis, and occult tarot decks are also available.
Each card in the deck has a unique meaning, which might vary depending on the card’s location and whether it’s upside down or not. The type of spread utilized may also affect the card meanings.
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Card Meanings
There are a few common visuals that you might see even though each deck has its own unique set of meanings for each card. Additionally, there are distinct meanings for other card kinds and for the card depending on whether or not it is reversed.
For instance, the Death card, when upright, indicates the start of a new life or significant changes. It may also signify the conclusion of a particular stage of life. If it is upright, it actually doesn’t signify anything bad or portend death. However, if the card is turned over, it denotes a painful or unpleasant transition. It may also refer to tiredness on the physical, mental, or spiritual levels. Although this card has a negative reputation, it truly signifies death in very few decks and spreads, if any.
The lovers card is comparable in this regard. Upright connotes togetherness and harmony. Additionally, it implies that decisions must be made using one’s intellect, and these decisions don’t even have to involve love. However, if the card is reversed, it may indicate adultery, a lack of focus, and a caution not to make any significant decisions at this time.
These two instances illustrate the need to study the materials that come with your cards and conduct adequate research before assuming what the cards signify. True tarot card readers will embrace this uncertainty and understand the value of reading the cards together. The meaning of the cards is frequently overstated to produce a more stunning impact.
If you concentrate on a standard deck of 78 cards, you may notice that there are numerous distinct card groupings. These comprise the Major Arcana as well as the Wands, Cups, Swords, and Coins suits. Based on how they are disclosed and spread out collectively, each of these suites and groupings might have a distinct significance.
Many bookstores will sell a few tarot sets and instruction books if you are not too particular about the kind of deck or how creative the illustrations are. These tarot cards are typically fairly simple, but they serve the same purposes as a more elaborate and expensive deck. These sets are an excellent entry point for novices to learn how to read cards because they often cost less than $20.
While tarot cards themselves are robust and only need to be kept in their container. But many people who think the cards have mystical properties may recommend unique cases or coverings for them. For instance, many card sets may advise that you wrap them in silk. However, this is not a hard and fast rule because the right technique to keep the cards can be confusing just like the meanings of the individual cards.
Some people decide to buy specialized boxes or pouches to store their cards in. This is an optional technique to give the cards extra consideration and significance. Most tarot card readers will advise you to arrange your deck of cards for storage in a way that pleases and comforts you.
Tarot card reading is a skill that requires practice, just like any other pastime, therefore you should do it as long as it makes you happy. It can be a really fascinating pastime that teaches you in a very special and spiritual way more about yourself and others.
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.
As a tarot reader, am I required to pay taxes?
You’ve heard the urban legends and the glitz: Working in tarot full-time may seem glamorous, but doing so part-time seems simpler and less dangerous.
The truth is that while working part-time as a tarot reader may be less risky than going full-time, it still requires effort. more labor than you might imagine.
Theresa Reed, a full-time tarot reader, is a rarity in this industry, as I’ve already stated. Most tarot readers work part-time; she is the exception, and I am the rule.
Part-time tarot reading has consequences, including the misconceptions people have about what I do and the truth.
Many theories have been put up as to why the majority of tarot readers work part-time. In fact, I’ve personally experienced some of those conjectures, such as the idea that readers who read part-time are cowards who purposely postpone making the switch to full-time reading. Going half time can occasionally be a deliberate choice based on the love of two or more passion careers. That’s how it turned out for me: I couldn’t really decide between editing and tarot because I enjoyed them both equally.
It would actually be much simpler for me if I didn’t run a tarot business. Yes, I do. Even if I could practice tarot as a hobby, I believe it would be disrespectful to the high regard I have for the deck if I were to do so in ANY WAY BUT A PROFESSIONAL manner. I am a part-time tarot reader for this reason. Yes, you must pay me; yes, you must schedule an appointment; and yes, it ANNOYS me when individuals approach me at my reading desk and ask, “What fun!
I’ve discovered that as a part-time reader, there is an expectation from prospective clients that I am “Despite being very clearly stated on my website, my policy against same-day or emergency readings is rarely followed. I am available around-the-clock. Due to the fact that full-time readers determine their own schedules, I have discovered that the same expectation applies to them as well.
I keep a strict eye on and control my schedule since I read on the side. All of my office hours are reserved for my day job as a Senior Copy Editor. My personal life and my husband are second only to my day work. The remainder is allocated to my tarot business, which is treated as a legitimate business with regular appointment times (evenings and weekends).
What appears to be rigidity (a packed schedule) actually gives me freedom and lifts my burden of worry.
Not all differences from a full-time reader really exist. I still owe taxes for my company (just like a full time reader would ). I still have to keep track of everyone’s schedule. I still have the pleasure and honor of getting to know people and experiencing their lives in a way that I wouldn’t otherwise get to. Any information shared during a reading is still completely confidential and private to me.
Once you have me across the table from you with your deck in hand, my existence is not all that dissimilar from that of a full-time reader in many ways. The benefit of working a full-time job other than tarot is that my employer takes care of my retirement and health insurance, so I don’t have to worry about such things. I don’t have to be as concerned during the “I can count on my full-time job’s salary during hard times when people are less interested in receiving a tarot reading.
The motivation to advertise myself and my tarot business comes solely from ME, which is the other side of the coin. I don’t possess the “such a hunger that a full-time tarot reader would continue to put themselves out there. Ironically, I still have that appetite, and it motivates me to do a lot of the same things a full-time reader would do to advertise themselves, like conduct interviews, create this blog, read at events, and unapologetically pass out my business cards to people!
Additional sobering facts regarding tarot reading on the side are as follows:
You still have to pay taxes, let’s face it. This may depend on the amount of money you earn from your tarot business that crosses the line from hobbyist to professional, but in all honesty, just speak with an accountant and submit your taxes with Uncle Sam accordingly.
There will be times when you have to decide between your full-time job and your part-time job, so face the facts (spoiler alert: the full time gig usually wins out).
Reality check: You will have to negotiate the challenging situation of having coworkers from your full-time job ask you for a reading (and occasionally, they’ll visibly protest when you tell them your fees!).
Check your assumptions: Tarot conferences, decks, travel, and similar expenses still require money. You might be utilizing income from your full-time job to pay for your part-time tarot job, so you’ll need to watch out that your outgoing expenses don’t exceed your inflow of funds. This brings us full round to taxes: maintain track of your spending and income so that you have plenty of records to refer to come tax season.
As a result, managing a full-time day job, a full-time marriage, and the tarot world with all of its rewards and drawbacks while also doing a part-time job is a difficult balancing act. Do I think it’s worthwhile? Oh, yeah! In a perfect world, I wouldn’t exchange it. But the golden rule Theresa instilled in me years ago still stands true: run your company like a business. even if it’s only part-time.
What does a tarot reading mean?
Tarot card reading is a type of cartomancy in which practitioners are said to be able to predict the past, present, or future by using tarot cards. They create a question first, then deal out cards to answer it. There are 78 cards in a conventional tarot deck, which can be divided into the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana. You can also utilize French-suited playing cards, as well as any other card system that links distinct aspects to specific suits (e.g., air, earth, fire, water).
How do you begin studying the tarot?
If you find this daunting, Howe advises you to take a deep breath and believe in your own initiative. “In order to see it less as “This holds all of these secret meanings that I have to do all this work to access” and more as “I know all the meanings; it’s just a matter of establishing the connections and being able to articulate them,” use language or knowledge that you already possess. She points out that the four elementsearth, water, fire, and airplay a significant role in the tarot, which is advantageous because the majority of people already have an understanding of the meanings of each element. ” If you do that, your viewpoint will be more personal, and you will be able to express yourself more freely.
Howe suggests the three-card draw and the Celtic Cross as the two fundamental spreads for beginning readers. In the former, three cards are chosen at random from the deck to symbolize the subject’s mind, body, and spirit, or past, present, and future. According to Howe, you could even up the stakes and use a six-card draw, with one card for each location.