Coaching with Tarot helps you to tap into your intuition to find the answers to the questions you hold. It’s not fortune telling, and whether or not you believe that the cards hold guidance for you from spirits, ancestors, deities, or anything inbetween is entirely up to you. It’s a creative way to listen to that little voice inside that knows what it wants already.

Before we get into the how, let’s talk about the what. This type of coaching isn’t needed if you want performance coaching – for example: to create a plan to achieve X. It isn’t needed if you just want a space to talk and be listened to. It also isn’t needed if you consciously know everything you need to, but you need to sort through it. For all of this, ordinary coaching would be ideal. But, if you’ve found yourself stuck, clouded, or in need of some deep exploration, coaching with tarot can really help. It can be very useful with the big questions we wrestle with: do I stay or go? What is my purpose? How can I show up more authentically? And can be an excellent aid with big thinking and future planning: what can the next 5 years look like? What paths are available to me? What am I missing?

A coaching with tarot session isn’t that different from an ordinary coaching session really. I still ask you what you want to think about, and we think about exactly that. I still use coaching questions to elicit new thinking. You still choose the direction of the session. The only difference is that we have the option to ask the cards questions throughout the session.

When you want to ask the cards a question, I’ll ask you what deck you’d like me to pull from (I have 4, and you can pick and mix throughout the session), and I will shuffle the cards holding the question in my mind. I’ll then cut the deck into the three, restack the pack, and draw the top card. I’ll hold this card up to the screen so you can see it and then… it’s over to you.

I’ll ask what you’re seeing in the card – what are you noticing? What does it remind you of? What does it make you think about, or feel? And, ultimately, what message do you think the card holds about your initial question?

More often than not, this is enough to move the conversation along to new thinking, and/or actions. However, as you’re likely aware, tarot cards do have meanings and I can share those with you in the session if you’d find that useful. I can also share my reading of the card, in context (so beyond the traditional meaning, and thus my opinion essentially), though this does move us away from a coaching format and I’ll only do this if it’s explicitly requested.

Throughout the session, you can ask as many questions as you would like (within the limits of time). You may pull just one card, or we might make it to 20! And, if you choose to do a series of sessions, you’ll likely find that it changes depending on the topic each time. Regardless, at the end of the session I will send you photographs of the card images, and of the meaning from the guide books that occompany them. This way, you’ll be able to reference your cards on reflection and have the option to look at the meanings, even if you didn’t want to focus on them in the session.