Have you seen someone's imminent death?

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Permalink Reply by Melissa on May 4, 2009 at 9:04am

Hi, Pat.

I had a very similar experience. The lady asked me if I was 'for real' or just in it for kicks, and I asked how I could help her. She was terminal and wanted to know how long she had left because she wanted to prepare, and the doctors were coddling her. I saw the answer right away, and it was such a gift to her. I was really honored to have been there - but more than a little freaked out by the whole thing. I'm glad that it happened, but it was more than a little humbling.

Best,
Melissa

Permalink Reply by Nicholas Westley on May 4, 2009 at 3:06pm

Hi Pat:

I have only once had a situation where death could have been the likely outcome of a reading. This concerned a manager I worked with many years ago when I was employed by a large and well known company. Mike stupidly drove without being qualifed and both myself and another friend Kelvin told him on numerous occasions that he was an accident waiting to happen.

One day I had my cards on my person at work as I was going to perform a reading for a friend after finishing work. During my break I got out my deck and started shuffling Mike walked in and became very interested in my cards so I performed a reading for him. The last two cards on the staff were the the 'Tower' and 'Death.' A couple of weeks later he was involved in a serious accident and was badly injured. Although Mike did not die he might as well have done as he sustained serious brain damage from which he has never recovered.

Mike's father took the the whole matter very badly and died only a few months after the accident that ruined his sons life. This incident highlighted for me that the tarot is there to 'advise and inform' and I have ever since this incident advised people who considered the tarot as 'just a bit of fun' to go elsewhere for a reading.

Cheers:

Nick.

Permalink Reply by Dawn Ellis-Lopez on May 4, 2009 at 11:38pm

I wish I could say I've only seen it once, but in the community that I used to work in, it was just so prevalent that there was no way around it. Sometimes I think it's important to be clear about things like this, especially about situations that are life-threatening. I was working with a client not very long ago, and I had to stress to her that the medications she was taking were interacting very badly with each other. She needed to see a different doctor ASAP or she was going to die. There was no fiddle-faddle about it. The key, of course, was to put it in a positive way that stressed her own control over the situation ("This is your choice to make, but here are the consequences..."), and that enabled her to do something about it. (She's doing much better now.)

If there's an uncertainty about an impending death, I use words like "transition" and "major change" and sometimes even "loss" if there is a supporting card that indicates a severely negative reaction. There are only a few cases where I would definitely say "Death is coming." It's that age-old balance that must be found between honesty and sensationalism.

Permalink Reply by Gloria Jean on May 14, 2009 at 10:28pm

My friend Darla and me were doing a reading about her father who was ill and in a nursing home. The cards indicated a death and inheritance and the receiving of responsibility. Both of us know our deck intimately as we designed it together and we saw the meaning but did not say a word. While the cards were still sitting on the table, she received a phone call. It was a call with news of her father's death.

Permalink Reply by mammawitch on April 18, 2010 at 4:11pm

I have done Tarot readings successfully since the late 1970's and worked on three Tarot lines in Ireland. I remember doing a group meeting and telling four people that they would be attending the same funeral. It transpired that it was one of the guys at the table - his mother was murdered days later - and they all attended the funeral. This was in Jordan 1987 - 1990

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