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I don't care what Julian Moore says. I am MARK LEWIS and he isn't. If you are any good you don't need to ask a single question. I rarely ask any at all. However, once in a while I may ask one or two at the most. If you ask more than three questions you are doing it completely wrong.

You are not there to have a bloody "conversation" or to "make friends". You are there to do a READING. That is what they are paying you for. Asking questions is suspicious and unnecessary and smacks of that silly Ian Rowland tripe. You are there to tell them-they are not there to tell you.

And there is a time element involved too. If you are too busy "having conversations" the person's time is up and you haven't had time to tell them anything. And if you do psychic fairs you had better avoid "conversations" at all costs otherwise you will end up losing customers since the readings will go on too long.

I had this argument with that daft old buzzard Ford Kross. I heard a tape of him doing a reading and it was abysmal. He asked a million questions. A good psychic should ask hardly any questions at all, if any. You should find out what you need to know without all that fishing nonsense that you see in magician's literature on the subject written by people that have limited experience.

Reading the palm and the tarot in a GENUINE unfaked way devoid of all trickery is the correct way to do a reading. Fishing around asking silly questions which any client with an ounce of intelligence will realise is a smelling-a-rat event is the way to mediocrity.

I am the way, the truth and the light in these matters. What I say is absolute gospel and any other advice should be completely ignored. I have done THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of reading since 1987. I have done more readings in one year than these twit magicians that write books on the subject have done it their whole lives.

And while I am in a cantankerous mood I do agree with my fellow Reverend Browning that generally speaking clients tend to be pretty intelligent. I did two hour long readings today for ladys who struck me as very bright indeed.

Some of the psychics I meet are pretty dumb but that is another story entirely.

Reading the different opinions here just shows how the same idea can be handled so vastly differently. In the harsh commercial world, I guess those who are still in business have probably found the most effective way of their doing readings...

I just checked out Julian Moore. I didn't realise he was "Bevbevvybeb" or whatever the hell his user name is. That is an entirely different story. He is on record (unless I am mixing him up with someone else) as being a fan of MARK LEWIS so naturally I have revised my opinion of him. He must obviously be a sterling fellow after all.

Mind you, I still say that if he advocates asking people questions (and I am not sure he does) then it is not valid advice. How psychic can you be if you have to ask people things that you are supposed to know in the first place?

Mark, I realise I am unworthy to kneel at your feet, but I do feel the odd question can move a reading along. I am not talking about a fishing expedition or a series of questions. But an appropriate question at the right time can move a reading in the right direction.

For instance sometimes near the start I might ask is there anything on the client's mind? I read the cards in light of her answer. But I never go fishing; that is too obvious and is not a proper reading.

An odd question is one thing. Too many odd questions is a bit odd. You can have too much of a good thing and it ends up being a bad thing. But yes, an appropriate question at the right time is fine. But it must not be overdone. 3 questions in a session is the maximum limit. And your timing must be to the split second.

Sparingly does it.

The reason you are asking questions right at the beginning is simply because you do not know the Mark Lewis technique which I did not explain at my lecture. It involves the I Ching. It was too involved to explain at the lecture and it is too involved to explain here. If I ever meet you again in person I will try and explain it. It is the key to my longer sessions.

However for a shorter reading you do not want to ask questions right at or near the beginning. Too early. It reminds me of the National Enquirer psychics. As soon as you phone them they ask you IMMEDIATELY what your problem is. I prefer to use other methods without asking questions. I hate the idea of asking anyone straight out what their problem is although it does seem to be done by certain people. It is true that many clients don't care how you get the information. They care about the answers. However, you are better off being a bit more subtle.

At a psychic fair I am not able to use the I Ching because of time restrictions. So this is how I do it. It is essential for my method to read the palm first. By the time you finish doing that you will know all you want to know without the client saying a word. The palm tells everything. Then you go to town with it.

I personally need to read the palm first. It is possible to do the tarot without doing the palm but the job is three times harder. For me anyway. You need to get the information the palm gives you before you can read the tarot properly.

And that means learning what the lines mean. In other words genuine palmistry. Bluffing your way through is not ideal.

Mark, I am with you about reading the palm first. By the end you will have an idea what is going on. I tend to do more short (five to ten minute) readings, so I occasionally need a question to nudge things in the right way.
In a longer reading I have no doubt there are ways around that. But longer readings are not my area of expertise.

Great mind think alike. If working at a fair or a tarot party, I always start with a quick palm reading. For some reason this always makes the tarot reading so much easier.

Far easier. A psychic fair promoter once told me that the strongest possible combination for a reading is the palm combined with the tarot. He was right. You read the palm first which is more of a character analysis but it does tell the future in a general sense. The tarot is more powerful for predicting future events. But I think you really have to do one to figure out the other.

FRK wrote:I have been studying the Tarot for a while and have all the card meaning quite well sorted in my own mind.
The problem is getting a simple spread of even 3 cards in to a coherent reading.
Any one got any advice on how to link card together or which card to put more emphasis on.

Thanks

A 3 card spread is a good place to start. I know readers who do nothing but because it's so easy you can't really get it wrong!

Just exaplain that the first card will represent the past the second the presant and the third the future. They'll begin to form a history in their mind when you begin to describe the symbolism and how it pertanes to their lives.