nisaba
Hi all
I am not a professional reader yet, I have a looong way to go before that, but the thinking of becoming one one day keeps me going on my studies with more enthusiasm as each day goes by. I am curious about one thing. I know everyone is different and have developed their reading skills in different frames of time, and that quality is not equivalent to more time, but, how long (months, years) did you study and practiced before feeling confident enough to read professionaly? I know the answers will vary from person to person, just a thought that came to me while reading in this section
I first picked up a Tarot deck in my mid-teens. It was when I was twenty-one that I offered a reading to a woman facing a dilemma. I never intended to charge her, but she was so impressed with me that she insisted I take a large lump of money. It was at *that* moment that I realised my readings were okay, but I was working full-time so I slowly slid into professional readings gradually. By the time I had been Tarot-involved for ten years, I felt capable of dealing with any person or situation they might be in, and called myself a professional.
But it's different for different folks - if someone picks up their deck less often than I did, or was less willing to admit there were things they didn't know and go researching them, they might take longer, I dunno.