how to read and predict the future using maps?

Very fashionable at the moment, cartomancy refers to the art of “reading” in playing cards. But is it really effective? Can we really read and predict the future using maps? We take stock with Katia Bougchiche, psychotherapist and energy specialist.

Reading the future thanks to cards, such is the principle of fortune telling. It refers more particularly to the art of drawing cards for divinatory purposes, or for personal development. If this practice seems to have been developed during the nineteenth century, it is only recently that cartomancy knows an unprecedented craze. ” At the end of the first confinement, many booksellers noticed a real craze for tarots and oracles. And this attraction cannot be denied, it has even grown. And for good reason, drawing cards every day makes it possible to anchor oneself, to come back to oneself and to carry out a ritual which is good. », Notes Sandrine Navarro, editorial manager at Éditions Leduc.

Before, fortune telling was mainly used for divinatory purposes. But today, with the democratization and the widening of the public for this type of oracles and tarots, we realize that it is especially for purposes of personal development that they are valued. Drawing the cards and providing guidance is a tool for self-knowledge, for getting back to oneself in order to better connect to one’s sensitivity and singularity. Today, we therefore use the cards less to predict the future, but to better understand how we operate, each in its own unique way. She continues.

If it was taboo to go to consult a clairvoyant or a medium, it has now become a trend. ” This success is due to the fact that there is a collapse, with the international crisis that we are going through, of our belief system, of our societal foundations. Our certainties are upset. Suddenly, while religion is in decline, the public turns to the divinatory arts to find answers to its questions. It is a knowledge tool accessible to all, which requires learning. As there are many workshops offered, it is easy today to access them and learn these practices in order to be able to powerfully use the cards, realize your astral chart, develop your mediumship, etc. », Explains Sandrine Navarro.

What is cartomancy?

To learn more about the art of fortune telling, we interviewed Katia Bougchiche, psychotherapist, energy specialist and author of Awakening the Witchesand Sovereign Woman(Leduc editions). According to her, “fortune telling is the art of reading information and messages using tarots or oracles. It is also a way of accessing one’s destiny, not a fixed destiny, but all the potentials of a being, the messages of his unconscious, the choices that he may be led to make, the important encounters that will mark him and the important stages of his journey.

To access this information, professionals therefore use cards that they interpret according to their position in the draw and the associations they suggest. It is generally a tarot de Marseille or an oracle-type card game. “Drawing a card is not a coincidence, it is an unconscious choice that we make and a possibility that we choose from a set of possibilities. This choice reveals where we are and the cards we have in hand to go in the direction of our development or our difficulties and our blockages to move forward.»Explains Katia Bougchiche.

What is cartomancy for?

Still according to Katia Bougchiche, fortune telling is used to better feel the invisible and the forces that surround us, those of life and our being, and which direct the events of our destiny sometimes without our knowledge. It therefore offers the keys to reading ourselves, our environment and allows us to see things that we do not know about ourselves. A bit like clairvoyance, it is an art of self-knowledge, guidance and allows us to gain clarity on our blockages, delays in our life, the opportunities that will arise, the people who are favorable to us or those whose intentions are toxic to us. Finally, it is also a way of communicating with our guides, our unconscious, our soul, or what some call god.

Can we really read and predict the future using maps?

Yes, thanks to cartomancy, we can predict the future, in particular with games such as Belline’s oracle, Gé oracle, Mademoiselle Lenormand’s oracle. These games are very specific for seeing the future and they will tell us where we are going given our current belief system, our emotional state and our state of mind. Yet, since we have free will and the capacity to evolve, it is always possible to make things evolve.»Says the psychotherapist and energy specialist.

How to learn to draw cards?

To learn to draw cards, you need to have some keys to understanding which form a learning base and which will define a framework. This base is essential to understand how to draw the cards, but also how to use the cards to open the destiny, to guide, and not to go into drifts and illusions. “I have been drawing the cards myself since the age of 15 and I train in this teaching in my Oracle training. This teaching includes the basics to learn through the Tarot of Marseille, but also through other card games such as oracles. I give games, exercises, meditation and a specific framework to get started and to develop your intuition. When you know how to teach this art, you realize that it is not more difficult or complicated than learning a language or riding a bicycle. You just have to take them step by step to understand maps as a tool and understand their logic.», Explains Katia Bougchiche.

There are different card prints. “The card prints are very numerous. We can ask specific questions to have a specific answer to an area of ​​our life (sentimental life, professional life for example). We can make a game to have trends over a month, three months or even a year. We can make a draw to touch our destiny by drawing as many cards as there are letters of our first name. We can make a draw for a couple or a professional association etc. The practices are endless, as much as the fortune-tellers who each have their own specificities.»Continues the specialist.

Card printing: what interpretation?

The cards in the Tarot de Marseille, for example, have a meaning that is unique to them and that has been passed down for millennia. When you buy a deck of cards, you always find a little booklet that accompanies your cards and gives you the meaning of each one. It is the school learning of cards. When we want to access another level to interpret the cards, we practice feeling them and receiving their message in another way, by meditating with them for example or by pulling them and then making the link between the draw and the the events that will follow in our life. I give many exercises and very personal practices on this subject in my training so that passionate or curious people can develop their intuition and connection with their games.», Concludes Katia Bougchiche. So, does it make you want to try? Books, card game … We have concocted a small shopping selection to start!

thanks to Katia bougchiche, psychotherapist and energetician. She is the author ofAwakening the Witchesand ofSovereign Woman, works in which she shares her teachings related to the sacred feminine, her knowledge of lunar cycles and magic, rituals and her shamanic initiations. She has been accompanying women for many years to discover their gifts, their powers and their resources. She is also the founder of the initiatory school of chakras, tarots, cycles and lunar magic, and co-creator of the podcastApprentice Witch.

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