Research Paper: Coach with the Tarot Cards in Mind

4. Applying Tarot cards to your coaching:

a) Getting powerful questions more naturally:

Now that you started to get familiar with the Tarot cards, I will show you how you could apply this knowledge to your coaching. Indeed it will help you get powerful questions more naturally.

The Tarot increases your intuition and awareness about the human being complexity. By getting more and more familiar with the tarot cards I realize that I listen better to my client, am more in the present and more efficient in finding the right tools to help my coachee. The more you study the Tarot cards the more you will get from them. As it will be part of you, the right question will come to you intuitively/automatically.

During a session you will then able to think intuitively to a card or more, depending on what your coachee is dealing with, to give you the inspiration on what aspect to explore with your coachee to support him.

I will now show you how each card is related to coaching powerful questions. This is of course a non-exhaustive list as the possibilities are endless.

We learnt earlier that each card includes strengths and weaknesses. Therefore now that we will use them in coaching we have to always keep in mind that our powerful questions need to always be positive and non-judgmental. Never believe that you know more than your coachee. Tarot cards are just a support to help you mirror back and ask powerful questions to your client in order to empower him. It is an additional tool that you need to learn to use only and strictly in a positive way for your coachee.

As it is complex to remember all the possible key words and powerful questions, I at least highlighted, on the following pages, the main one for each card.

Cards	Possible key words	Possible questions
The Fool	Free electron. Freedom also at others ‘disposal. Path more important than the goal.	What am I in the midst of (or what should I be) releasing? What is my path? How should I channel my energy?
I. The Magician	Embracing the adventure of life on earth. Faithful to myself Respectful Our analytical ability. Confronting ourselves to reality.	What am I beginning and how? What am I in the midst of deciding? What are my possibilities in potential?
II. The High Priestess	A space of silence. A clear presence. Knows what to say, when and to whom to say it. Have patience to pursue has started.- Wisdom of time.	What am I accumulating? What in me remains untouched? What should I study? What is my deadline? How committed am I to my project?
III. The Empress	The imagination opens-up My creativity expresses itself freely and warmly. I pay close attention to others’ ideas.	What am I creating? What is that is flowering, bursting in me? What experiences am I in the midst of living? What would be another way to work towards my project/goal?
IIII The Emperor	I deal and materialize my ideas.- I am always fair. I am in charge of…	How is my work, my material life going? What am I in the midst of building?  How do I relate with the notion of power? On a scale to 1 to 100% how much am I in charge of this project? How comfortable or how feasible is it to delegate part of my project?
V. The Pope	I communicate and pass on what I am and what I know. I act with compassion and in a simple manner.	What does tradition say? What should I communicate from my knowledge and how? Am I in the midst of transmitting something, and to whom? Do I have an ideal?
VI. The Lover	I listen to my heart I follow in harmony the path my heart shows me. I have to make a choice.	What pleases me? In what relationships am I currently involved? How is my life going emotionally? How do I feel when surrounded by people?
VII. The Chariot	I believe in myself I move toward success I am focused.	Where am I going, and where do I come from? What is my vehicle? (For example, a mystical doctrine, mathematics, the Tarot, my body….) What is my action in the world? What would be my next step? What appears to be feasible right now in terms of action?
VIII. Justice	I evaluate the pro and the cons I make the choice to re-establish a fair balance.	What should I balance or harmonize? What should I rid myself of that is useless in me? What is my notion of perfection? How would I describe the time spent between my work and family? What could make this situation less stressful?
VIIII. The Hermit	I am the guardian of my inner light I guide others. I am discrete and open-minded. I am not isolated, as I need to take this time for myself.	What does my wisdom say? What am I in the midst of distancing myself from? What should I renounce to? What do I believe in? How open am I to receive external support?
X. The Wheel of Fortune	I give a new momentum to my life I dare to take things in hand to create revival. A new cycle with more possibilities. I am responsible for taking initiatives.	What should be changed? What cycle has ended in my life?  What are my opportunities? Who can help me? What am I in the midst of repeating What do I feel comfortable with changing right now?
XI. Strength	My strength is my softness, flexibility, autonomy and inner strength. I dare to move in my life in a responsible and wise way.	What is my strength? Where is my strength situated? What are my desires? What do I intend to tame? What is my creative project? What could keep motivating me?
XII. The Hanged Man	I surrender with complete confidence to life’s intelligence. I let it go. I am detached. I need to wait.- My past knowledge is very well part of me. I am building an inner stable structure.	What should I sacrifice? What am I hiding from? What should I stop? What should I listen to? Where should I direct my inner seeking What is the best timing for my project Which area would I like to dedicate more time to while waiting for the situation to open-up?
XIII. The Nameless Arcanum	I have the courage to take the decision to make a change.- It is an inner and outside revolution. I am not able to give a name to things yet as I am still confused. Decide what needs to be removed from our life. We are close to our inner structure. We go to the essential.	What inside me should die? What is it that I should let go? What is in the process of transforming inside me? What is my anger?
XIIII. Temperance	I harmonize with softness. I communicate with flexibility and give a karmic healing. I add fluidity to my life. I add a little water in my wine. I am patient.	What protects me? What kind of relationship should I establish with myself? What am I in the midst of healing Whom should I bless?
XV. The Devil	I channel all my strengths for own good and the one of others. I harmonize my strengths and weaknesses.	To what am I bounded? What is my creative ability? What are my impulses? What are my main challenges?
XVI. The Tower	My essence is spreading out unexpectedly. It is a surprise. We evolve and learn something.	What am I freeing myself from What are the energies becoming unblocked within me? What is the feast that awaits me?
XVII. The Star	I know that the more I give the more I receive. I receive in abundance and give back to life. I have the courage to be vulnerable. I live in the present. I love towards my essence, my meaning in life. I communicate with nature and beauty.	What is my hope? What is my place? To what purpose should I employ my energy? What have I to give, to whom, and how? What am doing from an artistic point of view?
XVIII. The Moon	I go beyond what could be an illusion. I have access to my profoundness, my intuitions and put light to it. The conscious and unconscious. We need to clean our unconscious.	What is my receptive capacity? How is my femininity, my intuition going? What is my false belief? What is in gestation inside of me?
XIX. The Sun	I shine and heat hearths without burning them. I am happy. I enjoy my family and friends. I am full of positive energy.	What gives me joy, energy, success How am I loved? Am I building something new?
XX. Judgment	I celebrate the rebirth of my spirit. I show myself how I am. I let my ego aside.	What is in the process of awakening inside me? How do others perceive me? What are we in the midst of creating together? What is my position toward starting a family?
XXI. The World	I reach my inner potential and share it with the world outside. I need time to concretize my project. I open up to life.	What is the result of what I have done? Where is it leading? Am I in the process of blossoming?  What is my realization?