Sometimes you’re in a social setting and someone starts talking to you and they go on and on and on about the same thing for 10, 15, 20 minutes until it reaches a point where you finally have to say, “O my glasses empty. Let me go get a refill,” and you never go back. I recently had one of these experiences and later I realized that I do the same thing. 

I don’t like to interrupt people when they’re talking so when I am actually asked a question I just start talking and don’t stop and I probably say things I shouldn’t say because I finally have an opportunity to talk.  “What does this have to do with Tarot?” you might be asking yourself.

I think we do the same thing with Tarot.  Very often even if we’re not asking the same question over and over, we talk about the same topic forever.  I believe that the Tarot, just like human beings, gets tired or burdened with covering the same topic again and again. This is why it sometimes seems all of our readings are telling us the same thing.  “I answered that already!”

Recently I found out that my job is ending.  This is the 2nd time this has happened in a year and as I consulted the Tarot over the last 6 weeks, I repeatedly get the same messages: “Stay the course.” ”Stay the course!” “STAY THE COURSE!”  This is not to say I am asking the tarot the same question over and over as some are accustomed to doing – hoping for a different outcome.  If my question is related to or connected to employment, finance or the future in anyway…it doesn’t matter that there are different cards coming up, they always present the same message.  I feel perhaps that is the Tarot’s way of saying, “I’ve already answered this girl.  You need to move on to a new subject.”

So how do we handle these situations?  There are going to be times in our life where one topic is the focus, like my previously mentioned job situation.

Perhaps we should take a break from reading.  I don’t much like this idea and if you are a Tarot enthusiast, it likely doesn’t sit well with you either.  Working with the Tarot is much like having a conversation.  There is a time to speak and a time to hear what the other has to say.

Here are some approaches I take when I find myself getting the same answers over and again.

Rather than do more readings, I take a deeper look at the readings I have already had.  Dust off the books from my shelves and crack them open.  A little continuing education can bring light where it was once overlooked. While the cards are the same, the new information can enlighten my previous interpretation.

Another approach I have adopted is to pull the cards from a previous reading out of a different Tarot deck and see if the new images give me insight I did not have before.

Maybe we have not heard all the cards had to say the first time, which is why we are getting the message over and again.  We need to take time and truly listen.