Oh one thing I failed to mention. Never do a tarot reading on a question you don't want to know the answer to. It's gonna end up in a misread. Always ask what you want to know.

I find that sometimes my self readings (I have never done one for anyone else) can come out really unfocused, and I've asked a certain question and can't put together what a particular card is doing in a particular position. Though I suspect that might have been partially to do with the fact that I had been using one book forever, and multiple card decks that were nothing like the one this book was for! I don't know why I was doing that. I just didn't have a deck with a good book. Well anyway, I kinda got told at a psychic reading by my guides, lol. So I've started only using books that match my decks.

I just did a reading and went in asking a question I already intuitively felt the answer to, but I was severely doubting my intuition and terrified that I one day soon I would find out that my intuition fails me and it can't be listened to because it mislead me, and therefore my life would be turned upside down and be totally meaningless. So clearly this question was serious business for me. And what ended up happening was that all of the cards hit the nail exactly on the head of how I perceived my situation. It seriously surprised me! Now I'm a little worried that I just made that reading up, or somehow influenced the cards!! But I doubt that's the case as the question, though not asked directly in this way, was about validating my original intuition. I just really felt a certain way about what choice I should make in my current situation, and was afraid I was feeling this way for all the wrong reasons and I would be totally contradicted by reality. But the reading helped me see that maybe I do have my head on straight. I think that the intensity of feeling coupled by the fact that my question was directed toward something I had a strong intuition about helped it be a really focused reading. I find that when I'm not feeling quite so strongly, since I'm not focused, neither is the reading. It's amazing to see how much control your state of mind has over the cards.