Here is something for professional tarotists and those who are considering become professional readers. This might be of interest to those with serious personal tarot practices as well.

Something you will hear from some tarot readers, even professional readers, is that tarot reading can be very tiring. This has never been the case for me, but I have heard this complaint from many friends and students.

I had always assumed that when readers complain of being tired, drained, or unwell after a reading or two it is because they are not working with energy appropriately. I was pretty sure that if they learned to manage the energy of a reading correctly, they would develop stamina. A great deal of stamina is needed to do eight hour-long readings in a day, for example, or to do twenty fifteen-minute readings at a psychic fair.

An astrologer friend disabused me of that notion. She said that some people’s astrological charts seemed to support their ability to effectively channel energy more than the charts of others did. That said, she agreed that energy management techniques could always help.

I see amongst my students that some readers can emerge from a day of tarot reading feeling more energized than they did when they began, while others are just wiped.

Both types of readers give great readings. Some just seem to have a capacity for managing the energy of tarot readings more than others.

I am going to share four energy management practices, which I refer to collectively as ‘psychic hygiene’. If you find yourself tired, drained, nauseated or headachy after a reading or after performing a series of readings, see if these things help. If they do, you have the stamina to be a full-time reader.

If you are still having some issues even after establishing a good psychic hygiene practice, you may be better being more selective about when, where, and how often you read for people. That might mean that you aren’t cut out to be a fulltime tarot pro, but you might be able to develop a great part-time practice.

There are four components to my psychic hygiene practice. None of these components are original or unusual. If you need direction learning exactly how to do these things, there are many books, teachers, and classes that can help you.

The first is to do a lot of chakra meditation and to get comfortable running energy up and down the spine and through the chakras.

The second is to energetically connect to the earth with the root chakra, and to heaven with the crown chakra. Then you can draw on the limitless power of both earth and heaven to support your work.

The third is to cloak yourself in the energy you raise in order to keep yourself free of extraneous energies, client issues, and empathic drain.

The fourth is to be like a straw in a client session. Give nothing of your own energy to the client. Take no energy or injury from the client. Use the energy that you draw from heaven and earth to power your reading. Be a conduit for that energy.

If you can do these four things successfully, and if your own nature includes the capacity to do this, the only thing that will get tired from a full day of readings might be your voice, from talking, or your hands, from shuffling your cards.