Before moving on to the spreads, I should point out one last thing. For whatever reason, the psychic community seems often reluctant to admit that they are fallible (but then again, trying to get officially recognized experts to say “I’m sorry for having been full of shit” is also hard, possibly because expertise is turning into a new form of religion, but I digress).

I believe the reason for this is that, since there is no scientific certainty that divination “works”, then divination requires blind faith, and blind faith can never accept being called out. Doubt and reason, which have raised the human race above the others in so many ways (no, I am not anti-specist. Sue me) are seen critically among psychics because they open one to the possibility that not everything that leaves their mouth when they are not thinking about it is pure gold.

While it’s true that the sure hand is more likely to  shoot the arrow that hits the mark than the trembling one, reason and doubt are still your friends, if you use them wisely. And the first requirement of a reasonable practice is that you keep a log of your readings and check them for accuracy without holding back. Don’t dissolve into a puddle of tears as soon as you get something wrong–everyone does! No one is 100% accurate.

Accepting your fallibility frees up a lot of space in your psyche for other useful things, such as the ability to listen, to interpret, to feel, to empathize. It is also much less stressful than holding yourself up to an impossible standard. And it turns you into an honest experimenter in the psychic arts.