Jenna Matlin - Will You Give Me a Reading?: What You Need to Read Tarot with Confidence

xi Foreword

Few can balance the mystical and the practical as well as Jenna Matlin does. With a master of science degree in organizational psychology, she navigates the empirical world with ease and in principle has always been a rational skeptic. Yet she is psychic and clairvoyant, possessing an extra- sensory knowledge of the unseen world. She keenly understands that there is more to our reality than what we can observe or prove.

It is rare to find an author of a tarot book who harmonizes logic and intuition, and thats what Will You Give Me a Reading? presents to you: a step-by-step guide to master delivery of a card reading with examples from real life experiences on how to excel as a professional tarot reader. For decades, Matlin has successfully operated an in-person tarot business. She had an online presence before online tarot became a trend, and she is considered one of the early pioneers in teaching business skills and marketing to tarot professionals. Now Matlin distills her wellspring of knowledge and experience into a handbook of advice that will jumpstart your learning curve.

The book begins by addressing an issue I struggled with: deciding when the right moment would be to let people in your life, especially work colleagues or deeply religious friends, know that you are a tarot reader. Heres another insecurity many can relate to: How do you know if youre psychic? How does one go about honing their psychic abilities anyway? Psychic ability might be likened to instinct, and the psychic-mystic is a universal archetype that you can self-actualize. Matlin describes psychic ability as an evolutionary adaptation for survival.

When you start reading the cards for others, inevitably a rapid series of synchronicities begin to happen, and youll find querents repeatedly asking xii you, How did you know that? It begs the question: How much of our lives is fated, and how much of it is left up to free will? What is the role of predeterminism, determinism, and indeterminism? These difficult philosophical inquiries are covered in her book as theoretical principles the learned tarot reader will want to explore.

There are so few intermediate tarot books. Beginner books that go through card meanings are a dime a dozen, but a well-written intermediate text that deep-dives into the bones and spirit of a card reading is hard to find. Will You Give Me a Reading? has filled that gap. From understanding how to interpret those ever-tricky court cards as a person, an action, or a psychological state, to a chronological step-by-step guide to how a reading is conducted, and how to read with both compassion and integrity, youll want to reread this book every few years just to keep your reading skills sharpened.

Matlins book comes to us in prescient times, just as the number of online professional tarot startups has gone on the rise. The year of the global quarantine was a prodigious year in growth for tarot home businesses, life coaching, and spiritual consulting. A resurging mainstream interest in tarot, astrology, shamanism, and chakras has also grown. The market potential of reading tarot for others is flourishing at a rapid rate.

Mastering the ability to read tarot for others has become a much sought-after skill, and yet well-vetted texts that will help navigate such entrepreneurial waters are scarce, which is why Matlin is a treasure. Will You Give Me a Reading? is a great prerequisite for anyone looking to become a tarot professional. Her signature two-part twelve-step layering tarot technique is brilliant. Mastering that technique is what will set you apart as a reader.