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    By Swait Prakash

A number of people are now turning to tarot to gain valuable insights into their business and career with the help of Tarot. How? Not by receiving advice on who is a good prospect and who is not. Really there are several ways in which you can apply the cards and gain more valuable advice with their help.

Knowing yourself better
Firstly Tarot helps you understand your personality….your skills and talents that are unique to you or your business….how you can apply them better and leverage them to create a more satisfying and happy work or business life.

Tuning into your inner flow
If starting out or planning to begin a career, Tarot helps you in decision making, by highlighting which professions fits your aptitude and also by clarifying your goals in life. Really life is all about choices. These are in you hands. The choices you make sketch your path ahead. Your soul already knows the choices, has already chosen a path. Now its up-to you to be in tune with it and go with the flow…Tarot being a very natural and intuitive tool can bring you into this flow. Life can really be so simple. On understanding ourselves we understand more and more about everything else and reduce the complications. Clarity emerges. So many avenues that you perhaps did not consider at first or did not really focus on but your subconscious urges you to give it another look. It really is all about following a natural path than artificially restricting yourself with self limiting patterns. A choice made with awareness and deep insight into yourself is better than one made by looking outward alone.

Relating to others at the workplace
Tarot helps us understand how we relate with others at work. The games we play and the ways we react become more and more visible to us. It also brings to the table issues about our partnerships and how is the potential of working together. Helps us get down to the reason for any conflict or misunderstanding and to create a better environment and situation. We have to realize that we create the situations around us including our modes of behavior and temperament. This way, we learn and adapt better keeping in kind who we really are.

Our career in our life
A career is not only one aspect of our life. It links with every area of our life too. Nearly everything else in our life is enhanced once things at work are pleasant. Productivity and outcomes are the most important denominators of success.

As a career and peoples person I also provide career counseling and support with the help of Tarot. Most people are pleasantly surprised by the way it helps bring certain subconscious but crucial issues in focus. Several times family members come together for a reading. In India we are so close to each other that when one person needs advice there are so many others backing and supporting him from his family to friends. Especially when it comes to making decisions about our work or career everyone is affected no matter how personal a decision it may seem.

In-fact most people imagine themselves to be a certain profession. So when asked to introduce ourselves the typical answer is something like…I am a CA, or an actor, or a housewife…We create this definition about us. The more we restrict ourselves to being this….or …that …the less we allow ourselves to ‘Be’. Tarot helps us open our mind and intuitively receive guidance about how much greater our potential is, how much more the possibilities are than we think. Instead of making us stick to a boundary of being, it helps us expand our vision, our imagination and our creativity. Where logic fails intuition comes in and gives us a whole new perspective.

Bringing it all together
With Tarot we integrate our entire personality and various sides of our self together. So we get to see how our career affects other areas of our life and vice versa. We project ourselves in many different ways into the outside world. It helps us see ourselves as more complete beings having multiple dimensions so it is easy for us to switch roles to suit different situations.

Tarot is really a good way to put your creativity to test. A problem can have many different solutions. Most work and career problems really require us to be more creative, flexible and open minded in our plans and to have more foresight about how the outcome might change with our practical initiatives.

I also at times suggest focusing on certain cards that help us attract powerful energies in our professional life. Negative thought patterns can be gently subdued and ultimately replaced with more empowering and motivating thought patterns.

Out of so many factors one of the most prominent de-motivator is boredom that usually springs from routines and stagnation. Tarot also helps is breaking routines and mental sets. It encourages us to think different and be comfortable with the change. Ask yourself what can change within me to help me affect a change on the outside. What stops me from creating that change within me? Really nothing…

Tarot also helps us be lighter. Stress is the number one disease in the corporate world of today and the reason of multiple problems. Stress is born out of our own mind and its insecurities. Most people worry when they simply need to be hundred percent in the present and make efforts without any expectations of loss or gain. Why worry about it when it is only your effort that is in your control. That is easier said than done for sure, but with the cards it gets simpler. Tarot must help us see what we can practically do instead of what to expect. Unfortunately most people approach a Tarot reading to know about what to expect and that really doesn’t solve anything. So my advice will be to approach Tarot with an open mind, not just for prediction and with a view to receiving clarity, options, creative suggestions and new insights. All the best!