Frequently Asked Questions
with Karen Dess
How do Karen’s readings work?
Then I do a tarot reading using a metasymbology spread of 49 cards to give a general understanding of all areas of your life, and finally I answer all your specific questions using a process of concentrating on your questions while shuffling the cards, and the cards answering your questions will fly out of the pack.
I am clairaudient and clairsentient. Clairaudient, meaning “clear hearing”, is where I can hear suggestions inside my head which occur like they are my own thoughts. Clairsentience, meaning “clear feeling”, is where I feel the energetic vibrations of other people’s intent and this gives me information about them.
What I like most about offering readings is meeting all the new people and getting an insight into their lives and their personalities. People’s stories play out in front of me like characters in a book or a movie. Calculating their metasymbology gives me such a clear understanding of who they are, their weaknesses and their strengths.
I love unravelling their questions and dilemmas and revealing positive solutions and possibilities for them in accordance with their metasymbology type. I get so excited with them / for them about what the future can hold and I always find ways to frame my answers in the positive.
Often I get so wrapped up in their stories that when they run out of questions I will add a couple of my own, because I’m so eager to know how things will turn out for them and that they will be able to find the rewarding outcomes that they’re looking for.
How does reading Tarot work?
This works by tapping into a combination of the client’s personal energy and the atmospheric energy of the moment. We all have free will and choice at all times and nothing is cast in stone. However, it is possible to predict likely outcomes given the current course of events based on a combination of subconscious mind intent and the synchronicity of timing and coincidence.
Carl Jung suggested that events occur due to a combination of causality and synchronicity. In this way ‘meaningful coincidences’ combine with occurrences shaped by random chance to create subsequent events that appear to happen purely by chance but which carry some meaning for the person to whom they occur.
How do Metasymbology Life Path readings work
“Metasymbology” as the modern name for an ancient mystic wisdom. This wisdom was derived from the mysticism of the Kabbalah and the Tree of Life, which taught the lessons and meaning of humankind’s life on Earth as pathways back to God. The goal for all paths is for people to work their way back to God by learning the lessons of their path in order to become their true selves, and thus perfect that aspect of Godliness in themselves.
The knowledge of the Kabbalah and the Tree of Life was originally passed on orally through the generations, until the advent of using paper in the 13th century. It was then recorded on small sheets of paper like cards. For many reasons, the information was written on the paper using symbols to describe all the aspects of the life paths. The Julian calendar was also adopted in the 13th century, and the knowledge of the paths was eventually synchronized with the days of the calendar so that every person would know what their life path was for the day they were born.
Because the meanings of the paths were written in symbols, which was intended to keep it esoteric, it meant that it could also be forgotten or misunderstood. As a result, the cards went on to be used as playing cards for gambling in China in the 14th century, and as tarot cards for fortune telling in Italy in the 15th century.
Metasymbology reveals the story of your entire life from birth till death. Each of the 53 cards (52 playing cards plus the Joker) represents a day in the year. These cards combine to form charts which document the pattern of the universe and the immutable laws that govern it.
The paths are read from right to left (like Hebrew). Every life path is a story which has its own journey (like a plotline) and its own themes, characters and conflicts. How you live your story depends on how you work with the elements of the path.
Metasymbology can be used to give a unique understanding into an individual’s thought and behaviour patterns. It offers understanding into events and experiences that play out in life and can open the way for change to occur.
Each person’s birth date marks their entry into the grand pattern of the universe and outlines how they will be affected by the universal laws. Each individualised pattern is determined and conditioned by the numbers, elements and planets which surrounded us at our birth. This influences our behaviour patterns, our emotional patterns and the conditions and experiences we encounter in life.
Your birth path documents the secrets of your personality, your talents, what type of work will bring the most satisfaction, how you interact with others, who your most significant relationships will be with, what your biggest challenges are and how to get the most from your life. It’s like reading an encoded script of every aspect of your life.
All personal traits (the symbols) inherited in one’s Metasymbology have both good and bad implications and interpretations. How these manifest is up to the individual.
Sometimes “Metasymbology” is called “Destiny Cards” or the “Cards of Life”.
How does Hypnotherapy work?
Speaking directly to the subconscious mind is a supple and powerful tool, and creates the possibility for change by creating an opportunity for new neural pathways to be developed. Suggestion allows the subconscious mind to understand that new types of thought and behaviour are possible, and to help the client realise that they have options on how to feel and think where previously they felt completely option-less.
Hypnotherapy works to remove distress and thus create new subconscious thought and positive behaviour. By uncovering your negative subconscious thoughts, and then reframe them into the positive thoughts to help with solutions to your problem or habit.
How does Hypnotherapy with Life Path therapy work?
I would work with you by understanding your personality, your circumstances and what you’ve been through in your life, and how that may all have affected your character and your body. Then I create your personalized healing based on your individual story.
I work by clarifying the mind/ body connection around the issues, and then create different ways for the mind to think and the body to respond. Life Path therapy can explain how it is that your behaviour patterns operate and what other patterns are available to you. Including hypnosis activates subconscious mind healing to create better strategic behaviour with positive outcomes, both physically and emotionally.
What does hypnosis feel like?
Can anyone be hypnotized?
How deep into trance will I go?
Light – body relaxed, where your hearing can expand to hear all the sounds around you;
Medium – body relaxed, where you listen only to the sound of my voice;
Deep – the most profound level of relaxation, where you become unaware of the sounds around you or on focusing on any one thought.
Is Hypnotherapy the same as stage hypnotism?
What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Counselling?
Our subconscious mind is an incredibly powerful organ. At all times it knows much more than our conscious mind, including information that we have forgotten, how we really feel and what we really want.
If I were to ask you to choose between chocolate or vanilla, your conscious mind may dither over questions of quality, price, calorie intake or a hundred other factors before making a decision, but deep inside of you there is a voice clearly stating your choice. In these cases we often call this voice our ‘gut instinct’. Our subconscious mind is able to protect us from hurt, misfortune and loss by giving us the ‘sixth sense’ to know when someone is behind us. Our subconscious mind also rules our patterning and our habits.
Our manner, behaviour and speech can all form habitual patterns which stem from the influences which have taken hold in our subconscious minds.
