Market Mantra - Tarot Cards

MARKET MANTRA

The future of tarot card reading

   Modern India is experiencing a whole range of career options and one such new-age career with bright prospects, but still unexplored, is tarot card reading. With people getting more restless to know what their future holds, palm-readers, numerologists, astrologers and tarot card readers are prospering.

THE PROFESSION

A tarot card reader predicts the future of clients by reading tarot cards and also suggests remedies to their problems. Tarot reading revolves around the fact that the cards can be used to gain insight into the current and possible future situations of the client. The images on tarot cards energise and help identify problems and solutions. A good tarot reader not only reads the cards but also endeavours to awaken the inner self of the client. Each card has a variety of symbolic meanings that have evolved over the years.

HIGH DEMAND

Modernisation has brought with it a host of problems. The level of stress has increased and hence people are turning to new-age healers for solutions. Ask any lifestyle magazine or newspaper, their mailbox is filled with readers’ letters for tarot card readers asking for solutions to their daily problems. Today, a tarot reader’s studio is always buzzing with people from all walks of life seeking readings for stress management, meditation, healing and solutions to their problems.
   Tarot card readers are required everywhere - from television and radio to events, cultural programmes, social gatherings, kitty parties, and so on. Besides, the corporate sector, event management companies, sports, appoint tarot card readers before a new launch, event or game.

SKILL-SET REQUIRED

Communication skills and knowledge on the healing process are basic skills required. Having a sixth sense is an added advantage but not required. The art of good tarot card reading is based on powers of intuition.

REMUNERATION

Pay packages vary according to the kind of environment and project one is working on. Remuneration is not usually fixed. A beginner can charge between Rs 100-500 for half an hour. Experienced tarot readers can charge from Rs 2,000–5,000. For bigger projects like real estate and construction companies, one can charge Rs 10,000–15,000 per project.