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KARMEL NAIR was born Catholic, is married to a Hindu and practises the Buddhist way of life. Before turning to Tarot she worked in a media house and as a successful RJ with leading radio stations. Then Tarot happened and opened up a new world of experience and discovery to her. Karmel went on to become one of the leading Tarot readers in Mumbai, India, and also did television shows as an expert Tarot Reader where she reached out to millions, to hear them out and offer tarot-based solutions.
She turned to Vipassana and meditation to deal with the persistent vacuum she felt despite her success. An increasing absorption in her knowledge of the self led to the realisation that we are all here with a purpose, to serve a calling and that the more we align with the same the more we are enriched in life. She counselled and helped many people from all walks of life; sad, curious, distressed, heartbroken people who came to her for a glimpse of the future, and more importantly, to deal with their grief. Equipped with a Masters’ degree in Psychotherapy and her skills as a Tarot reader, Karmel found herself in a position to help people get a glimpse of what the future had in store for them and to mitigate the negatives through correct steps and actions.
This book is a product of her experience, learning and understanding of Tarot and of human nature.
Your Tarot Predictions for 2015
Karmel Nair
www.millsandboon.co.uk
This book is dedicated to the three angels of my life
Sanaa, Madhav and Miara
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the two most important people in my life who have made this book possible—my husband Manoj Nair and my daughter Miara Nair. Without the timely guidance and encouragement that I received from my husband, I wouldn’t have written this book. He has guided me, walked me gently through its concepts, and more importantly, believed in me. His belief went into shaping my own and thus the book came into being. My daughter is just a toddler, but her intelligence and understanding can put an adult to shame. She has been kind to me when it came to time and deadlines. She is my shining star. I am blessed with two such strong pillars and only thank the Universe for giving me this opportunity to be part of my husband and daughter’s life.
I would like to thank two other important people in my life, my best friends Russell Lobo and Shobha Vikram, two of my severest critics and greatest supporters who have pushed, pulled, guided and motivated me through every page of this book. I owe this book to them. I whole heartedly thank you both for being such great friends and even better critics.
I would like to thank my family; my father-in-law Unni Krishnan Nair, my mom Mary Fernando, dad Anthony Fernando, brother Montanus, brother-in-law Ronald Sequeira and especially my sister Camillia who helped me manage time and write this book. A strong support system like a strong family can go a long way in shaping one’s life and this is what my family is all about, love, adjustment and encouragement. Their belief and confidence that I can do just about anything gave me the courage to write this book.
A book comes into being not just through the author but also due to the opportunities and help that she receives while writing. I would like to thank my publisher Harlequin India for giving me this brilliant opportunity to bring this book out to you. My editor Sucharita Dutta-Asane was a tremendous help in getting the best out of me for this book. She was pushy at times but mostly patient and kind, and I guess these are the qualities that make a good editor.
Last but not the least I would like to thank you for believing in me and in my Tarot Book of the Future for you. I can only say that this book, besides being a book of future predictions, will also guide you to shape your life and discover the new you.
Karmel Nair
Contents
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
My Journey Through Tarot
Myths About Tarot
Tarot FAQs
What is Tarot
How Can You Benefit From Tarot
How is Tarot Different From Numerology and Astrology
What is in this Book for You?
Some Terms to Remember
The Book of Emperor: ARIES
TAROT Trump
Monthly Predictions—2015
Your Love Life in 2015
Your Health in 2015
Your Wealth in 2015
Your Career in 2015
The Spiritual You in 2015
Summary of Your Predictions
Tarot Spreads
Author’s Note for You
Your Iconic Contemporary
The Book of Hierophant: TAURUS
TAROT Trump
Monthly Predictions 2015
Your Love Life in 2015
Your Health in 2015
Your Wealth in 2015
Your Career in 2015
The Spiritual You in 2015
Summary of Your Predictions
Tarot Spreads
Author’s Note to You
Your Iconic Contemporary
The Book of Lovers: GEMINI
TAROT Trump
Monthly Predictions
Your Love Life in 2015
Your Health in 2015
Your Wealth in 2015
Your Career in 2015
The Spiritual You in 2015
Summary of Your Predictions
Tarot Spreads
Author’s Note to You
Your Iconic Contemporary
The Book of Chariot: CANCER
TAROT Trump
Monthly Predictions
Your Love Life in 2015
Your Health in 2015
Your Wealth in 2015
Your Career in 2015
The Spiritual You in 2015
Summary of Your Predictions
Tarot Spreads
Author’s Note to You
Your Iconic Contemporary
The Book of Strength: LEO
TAROT Trump
Monthly Predictions for 2015
Your Love Life in 2015
Your Health in 2015
Your Wealth in 2015
Your Career in 2015
The Spiritual You in 2015
Summary of Your Predictions
Tarot Spreads
Author’s Note to You
Your Iconic Contemporary
The Book of Hermit: VIRGO
TAROT Trump
Monthly Predictions 2015
Your Love Life in 2015
Your Health in 2015
Your Wealth in 2015
Your Career in 2015
The Spiritual You in 2015
Summary of Your Predictions
Tarot Spreads
Author’s Note to You
Your Iconic Contemporary
The Book of Justice: LIBRA
TAROT Trump
Monthly Predictions in 2015
Your Love Life in 2015
Your Health in 2015
Your Wealth in 2015
Your Career in 2015
The Spiritual You in 2015
Summary of Your Predictions
Tarot Spreads
Author’s Note to You
Your Iconic Contemporary
The Book of Death: SCORPIO
TAROT Trump
Monthly Predictions 2015
Your Love Life in 2015
Your Health in 2015
Your Wealth in 2015
Your Career in 2015
The Spiritual you in 2015
Summary of Your Predictions
Tarot Spreads
Author’s Note to You
Your Iconic Contemporaries
The Book of Temperance: SAGITTARIUS
TAROT Trump
Monthly Predictions in 2015
Your Love Life in 2015
Your Health in 2015
Your Wealth in 2015
Your Career in 2015
The Spiritual You in 2015
Summary of Your Predictions
Tarot Spreads
Author’s Note to You
Your Iconic Contemporaries
The Book of Devil: CAPRICORN
TAROT Trump
Monthly Predictions in 2015
Your Love Life in 2015
Your Health in 2015
Your Wealth in 2015
Your Career in 2015
The Spiritual You in 2015
Summary of Your Predictions
Tarot Spreads
Author’s Note to You
Your Iconic Contemporaries
The Book of Star: AQUARIUS
TAROT Trump
Monthly Predictions in 2015
Your Love Life in 2015
Your Health In 2015
Your Wealth in 2015
Your Career in 2015
The Spiritual You in 2015
Summary of Your Predictions
Tarot Spreads
Author’s Note to You
Your Iconic Contemporaries
The Book of Moon: PISCES
TAROT Trump
Monthly Predictions in 2015
Your Love Life in 2015
Your Health in 2015
Your Wealth in 2015
Your Career in 2015
The Spiritual You in 2015
Summary of your Predictions
Tarot Spreads
Author’s Note to You
Your Iconic Contemporaries
Copyright
My Journey Through Tarot
They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. There I was on a pleasant Goan evening right in the middle of a bustling flea market. The stall in front of me was nondescript yet alluring with bold letters inviting visitors to ‘KNOW YOUR DESTINY WITH TAROT’. I took the initial step with trepidation and curiosity, with the keenness to know what was in store for me. I entered the stall and met an elderly lady whose hypnotic and magical eyes belied her age. I took a seat right in front of her. She immediately asked me in a confident tone, “What would you like to know?” Well, this was my first time and I was a total novice at asking questions about my future. With all my inexperience and innocence, I gathered courage and came up with a simple question. “What do you see in my near future?” She shuffled her cards some three to four times and spread them in a circular shape, a total of five cards. They looked colourful and interesting, even magical and mystical. She seemed lost in the cards and this kind of gave me a mixed feeling. Was it good or bad? In any case I butted into the silence and asked, “So what do you see?” To this she answered, “My dear, I am happy to tell you that I see you getting married to your boyfriend, the one you are seeing now, in less than a year.”
This came as a surprise to me as I was unsure of my ongoing relationship and definitely wasn’t considering marriage anytime soon. The other things she said really appalled me. “I see a new beginning,” she said, “a beautiful one, but this comes at a price.” I was sold. “What beginning and what price?” I asked.
“I see you starting a journey that you have never taken before, a journey that will change your life and your life’s purpose, but at a price that you may have to pay now. The price is at the cost of your existing job. You may be asked to leave what you believe is your dream job, only to begin the real journey of your life.”
This kind of disappointed me. I loved my job as a Radio Jockey with a leading radio station; I was doing exceedingly well and there was talk of my being moved to prime time, which was like an indirect promotion. It was out of the question that I would be asked to leave. What journey was I going to start? This didn’t go down too well with me. However, with this I ended my reading and bid adieu to the mystical woman.
When I returned to my job, everything looked good, as it was. It continued in the same manner for a couple of days only for something strange to happen after that. In less than 10 days I was asked to leave from my present profile and this at a time when I was doing very well and hoping to shift into drive time shows. The project I was working on had moved to some other location and they didn’t need me any longer. This shattered me and my dream. That’s when the Tarot reader’s predictions rang like a warning bell in my head. Her predictions were coming true. I felt it deep in my heart. Four months from the time I got my first ever Tarot reading, I was engaged to my boy friend and was married after another three months.
Today I am happily married, leading a different but remarkable life in which I discover myself each day. Everything she predicted went right and I found it difficult to accept this, to even acknowledge it. After a couple of months I went back looking for her because the urge to know what she had left unsaid nagged me. She had mentioned a new journey. What could it be? I went back to Goa where I met her at the same place. Luckily for me, I met her just as she was packing up for Europe permanently. I reminded her that I had been there a few months ago and she had predicted everything correctly but with one undisclosed thread of events.
“You will discover yourself through your instinct and intuition. You are meant to do something related to foretelling the destiny of others. Your calling is to see the unknown.” Her prediction was still ambiguous. On the way back I continued to ponder over her words.
Life got back to normal as usual. I found myself a new job, was getting ready to move on with marriage and the rest, but there were sudden incidents that would bring me back to what the Tarot reader had predicted about my self-discovery. Two of my common friends got engaged; I had a nagging feeling about the eventual marriage and would often discuss the uncomfortable instinct with my husband. I strongly felt that their marriage wouldn’t last long. Since it was only a feeling, an intuition, I couldn’t take it beyond discussing it with my husband. My friends got married and three months later they separated. This didn’t come as a surprise to me for I knew something was wrong, my instinct told me so.
After a while I predicted India’s victory in a critical match, a victory which seemed impossible. Again it was my intuition, my sixth sense. It didn’t stop at this. I continued predicting big and small incidents as if my ability had suddenly assumed a mind of its own. A colleague of mine was going through a difficult financial situation; I predicted an unexpected sum of money for him, a windfall. Of course he didn’t believe me when I said help would come; I didn’t know from where or how, but I knew it would, and it did. Incidents like these would keep bringing me back to the Tarot reader’s prediction and that’s when it dawned on me that Tarot could be the missing link. Probably this is how I could foretell one’s destiny, heal one’s life through my knowledge, and show others the way. This is when my journey began.
I started working towards this new discovery, the discovery of Tarot. I knew the underlying power of Tarot but the success lay in becoming not just a Tarot reader but a good one. I dedicated my life to its understanding and study. I continued working but only half heartedly. I was convinced that Tarot was the big change and I had to master it; my destiny rested upon it.
There has been no looking back. I have excelled at my work as an expert on this subject and in fact Tarot has opened doors to more than what I thought predicting the past, present, and future was all about. It showed me the way to spirituality. Spirituality is about connecting with your real self, with the Being in you. I am yet to get there but the journey has begun. Tarot has opened the door to achieving greatness and success beyond the material wonders of life.
Around this time, Vipassana also happened to me. Vipassana is a scientific form of meditation which releases negative energy from your body and brings your biggest formidable opponent under your complete control, your Mind! I attended a ten day course of Vipassana, and this opened my third eye. I knew my purpose in life—to reach out to others and guide them to their destiny through Tarot. I studied the Science of Psychotherapy and Counselling and this equipped me with a deep and scientific understanding of the human mind and enabled me to understand my clients’ needs beyond just pure tarot reading.
Today Tarot is an intrinsic part of my life and my experience as Tarot Reader gives me the confidence and knowledge to write this book. It is not just a medium to predict the future but a different way of life. As a student and practitioner of Tarot I have learnt that there is more to an individual than just his/her future. As a Reader I don’t just predict the future for my clients but try to equip them, through my intuitive future forecasts, with knowledge of what awaits them and how they can shape their future with this foreknowledge. Tarot gets you to where you want to be. My experience over the years has shown me it is not just the readings that draw people back to me but the whole process of change that Tarot offers. Besides readings, Tarot gives you a new way to handle life by guiding you not only through predictions for the future but also by equipping you with the means to address this future.
The Tarot way encourages and enables a deep understanding of the self that no other medium does. Spirituality is this deep sense of understanding of one’s inner being. Tarot gives you the power to get in touch with this side and change your destiny by thinking beyond the usual ways and means, beyond your mind’s restricted thought processes. Tarot takes you to your soul; it opens doors to the pure spiritual energy which we all have but is experienced by only a few. Tarot does this for you through me, your Reader; I am the path, Tarot the way, and the spiritual awakening the light. With my understanding of the scientific mind and spiritual knowledge, awakening you from within you becomes a simple and enjoyable process. Once you touch this inner spirit, there is nothing that can stop you from creating your own destiny.
The purpose of Tarot, and therefore my purpose in this book, is to lead you to your spiritual being and unlock your latent powers. Tarot is in a way the holy trinity—it is the future, the change, and the spiritual destiny.
Today I am not just a Tarot reader but a spiritual guide and a qualified counsellor. This was the metamorphosis the old woman had predicted. I had begun my journey in pursuit of material gains and small successes. Today I know my destiny, my purpose. It is to reach out to you, to show you what’s in your destiny, to guide you through it gently and counsel you through life’s difficulties, to help you reconnect with your soul, your true spirit, and to reveal your ultimate purpose. In this book, you will find all this laid out before you through ‘Future Predictions’, ‘Spiritual Reading’ for the year ahead and ‘The Author’s note’.
Welcome to the magical, mystical and alluring world of Tarot and its readings for your past, present and future.
Myths About Tarot
Before we delve into Tarot, how it works, and what it can do for you, there are some other important facts that you must know. Tarot is a powerful medium used for many reasons. These reasons could be good or bad depending on how one uses it and how the other perceives it. For me, Tarot is the magic that happened several years ago. The woman who brought this magic into my life was some kind of a gypsy whom I will probably never forget. I recall my first experience as I was getting my first tarot reading done from her. She was as mystical as Tarot itself. She brought this interesting aura to Tarot which lured me into getting the reading done rather than the tarot cards themselves. Somehow the whole gypsy presentation was fascinating to me, exciting.
I am certain you too have a similar impression about Tarot, at least before you read this book. A lot of myths go into the making of Tarot. These myths are both interesting and fascinating and I would like to dispel them one by one by giving you the true essence of the reader and the Tarot Cards.
Myth: Tarot is done only/mostly by Gypsies. It is Gypsies who created Tarot.
Fact: Tarot is, was, and can be practised by any normal person who has a heightened sense of intuition and has mastered the art of reading tarot cards through practice and meditation. Tarot is neither limited to Gypsies nor was it created by them. The myth developed because in the olden times, Tarot was very often seen with Gypsies. Gypsies used the tarot decks as playing cards and were responsible for bringing them into Europe. It travelled with them from place to place and thus became associated with gypsy lives. Tarot was used by gypsies but mainly for playing games. Its occultism emerged after it travelled down from them to various other parts of the world. Although today Tarot is used by everyone, we tend to see and remember the most impressionable of our experiences, one like mine. Gypsies provide a dark and mystical presentation of Tarot, which makes it easy perhaps to associate Tarot with them.
Myth: Tarot is Black magic
Fact: Tarot is the prediction of one’s life through plain aura reading. Over the years, due to its association with gypsies, magic, dark energy and negative elements, it came to be identified with black magic. Throughout history, various religious institutions have wanted to keep the power and control of human life in their own hands. This caused them to banish tarot and create negative speculation about it, thus discouraging people from using Tarot for predictions and using it instead only as a plaything. Powerful religious institutions didn’t want the power of the future and positive belief to be handed over to the common man as they feared loss of trust and control. Tarot gives you the power to change your destiny by foretelling what’s in store for you and this shall be revealed in the forthcoming chapters of this book. From this it is evident that Tarot is no black magic but simple intuition and aura reading which gives it a certain magical quality due to its predictive quotient.
Myth: Tarot is Witchcraft
Fact: Tarot is purely energy and aura reading. In keeping with the tradition of condemning anything that was not in line with their religious beliefs, powerful institutions down the ages tarnished Tarot’s name by calling it negative, black magic and dark energy so as to dissuade the common man from knowing its true power and potential, the potential which gives one control and mastery over one’s destiny. These religious institutions successfully banished tarot by calling it Witchcraft, devilish and occultist, and thus people were discouraged from relying on these mediums for guidance, depending completely instead on religious and dogmatic practices.