Looking for a tarot reading for answers, insight or inspiration?
My name is Shana Ruth and I’m a professional tarot reader, spiritual medium and psychic. My readings give helpful insight and advice in different areas of everyday and spiritual life, and aim to demonstrate the power and magic of tarot. I live and work in Amsterdam East (Netherlands) and work in Dutch and English. I’m originally from the UK.
Why have a tarot reading?
A tarot reading can suggest answers and provide insights and new perspectives around issues and challenges in your life. It may also advise you on the best course of action to take or warn you about potential negative developments. Furthermore, a reading can point you toward a decision that will benefit your everyday or spiritual life.
In practice, just by sitting at the table of a good tarot reader can often help you get in touch with your own spiritual nature or open you up to healing spiritual vibes.
Tarot can support a spiritual practice and help you go deeper. The cards function as signposts on the spiritual journey of opening up and communicating with the wisdom and intelligence of the benevolent spiritual world. They may also be a source of inspiration for personal development.
My readings combine my broad knowledge of the cards with my mediumship, intuition and natural pychism. A reading with me is almost always interactive. I gradually enter into conversation with my clients and move towards conclusions together.
How does a tarot reading work?
A tarot card reading consists of an interpretation of the cards that you yourself choose (exept if it’s an online reading, when I choose on your behalf). You can ask a specific question, or first let the cards speak about the energy they sense around you, only later possibly specifying your main question. The cards (the spiritual energy behind the cards) will comment and speak on the issues they think are the most important to be addressed at that time.
A full reading is an hour long, which is generally enough to examine anything which comes up that needs further discussion. The readings I give at public locations such as festivals and markets are much shorter and can be seen as introductions to tarot and/or snapshots in time. See the Agenda for short readings.
In my readings I mostly use the beautiful Thoth cards, because they allow me to dive in deeper if that’s necessary. In my workshops and in my capacity as teacher or mentor I use the Rider Waite, the best known and iconic tarot. These are the best and easiest cards for beginners. The tarot section under services on this site gives a description of these cards. As well as a summary of the different readings I provide and the price. See services. If necessary I may also use Lenormard cards in addition to tarot.