In this video, modern mystic and holistic health practitioner Eva Vennari introduces Tea Time Tarot, a suite of tarot spreads offered through the Elevate Institute. She briefly shares her 25‑year background as a tarot reader and explains that any of her decks can be used unless a spread is tied to a specific deck. She then walks through each of the seven spreads currently available for a tarot party: 1. Celtic Cross – a classic 10‑card spread focused on love and money, revealing the subject’s current energetic focus and possible outcome. 2. Shadow Self – Eva’s exclusive 12‑card spread using the Good Tarot and Shadow decks to uncover hidden negative ego or subconscious blocks. 3. Milano 1810 Love Reading – a retired 1810 Italian deck used in a top‑and‑bottom 6‑card layout (plus an extra card) to clarify love situations and why they may feel “complicated.” 4. This or That – a decision‑making spread for choosing between two options (jobs, relationships, etc.), adaptable to any deck. 5. Storyboard – a 15‑card narrative spread with the Wild Unknown deck, read across, down, or diagonally to map the foundation, current state, and future trajectory of a burning question; Eva warns it can evoke strong emotions. 6. Dragon Twin Flame – a specialized spread focusing on the masculine/feminine balance of a twin‑flame relationship, using dragon‑themed cards that emphasize cyclical energy. She notes deck selection flexibility, the possibility of pulling additional cards for clarification, and cautions that some spreads may trigger intense emotional responses. The video serves as a comprehensive guide to the available spreads and their intended purposes.
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Welcome to Tea Time Tarot by the Elevate Institute. My name is Eva Venari, and I am a modern mystic. I have been primarily a holistic health practitioner for many years now, but for the last 25 years, I have been a tarot card reader. I read energies, and I'd love to share with you what messages are waiting. So we have various different spreads that we can use to reveal what's going on with you. So let's go over them because many of them, well, the cards taught me. So we have— that sounds weird, doesn't it? The Celtic Cross. Now this is a classic. It says classic spread at the top, and you can see where the cards will lay. And I can use any of my tarot card decks for this, and you have your choice, whatever I have with me or whatever is calling you, or I can choose for you or with you. But the whole point of the Celtic Cross reading, it's a love and money reading really. It gets us the subject at hand that you are energetically thinking about the most right now. So what subject do you want to focus on first? Because it can actually reveal so many other things in your life other than love and money, but these 2 are the, the common ones. They tend to go together energetically. They move through our life together. They're tied. So during these, I provide a 10-card spread just like you see here, and it's your choice of the decks like I talked about, and will reveal the journey of the subject in question, the foundation, what's been happening, the things to consider, and the possible outcome. And we're going to get nosy and we're going to clarify the different cards as they come up and find out what's underneath all of that. Now that's the classic, and you have options. So classic spreads, meaning this is well known in the tarot community, many, many readers offer this spread, but Like I said a minute ago, some of my decks have taught me spreads of their own. It's intuitive. All right, so the first one is the Shadow Self. This is my exclusive spread. This is all about what's hiding in your negative ego that needs healing. So if this question is calling to you, you feel blocked or burdened, this is the spread for you. So I'm going to use the Good Tarot. and the Shadow deck. And we can see from that it's a 12-card spread. This is the 2 decks come together to give us a beautiful story. There are no negative messages in here, regardless of what I said about negative ego. This is basically having an understanding of what's going on in your subconscious. So if you have something you feel is blocking you, we can find out what it is here. And again, each of these spreads will get very curious, and, and we will clarify with more cards. And if we have to pull in more decks, we will. Not a problem. Okay, so that's the Shadow Self. Next is the Milano 1810 Love Reading. This deck I picked up in London, and it really did not lend itself to the classic or any other spread, but it loved the idea of doing the top and bottom after a shuffle. And I'll— you'll see that. You'll see that firsthand. So it's that what comes off to— off of the top of the deck is all about your love situation. What comes off the bottom of the deck, which will be down here, and this gives us an insight around why is it complicated. So if your Facebook status says it's complicated, we can gain clarity here, get unstuck in matters of the heart, right? And during these, at the 6-card spread plus the additional one, and that's just the base. Again, we're going to peek into your current state of affairs. And like I say, there's no better people to ask than the Italians around love, right? So that's why we're here. This is a, a deck that has been retired, out of print. First time it came into print was 1810, and the tarot originated in Italy. So these are the people who created the whole process through which we are allowed to do Tea Time Tarot today. All right, next is This or That. You're deciding between 2 things. I don't know, should I take the job? Should I keep the job? I have 2 job offers. Which one is going to be better, right? This is pretty self-explanatory. Again, any deck in my tarot collection can be used for this, for the most part. As we just mentioned, the Milano deck doesn't like to be used necessarily for anything other than love, but this can be around love if you're trying to decide between one person you're dating or another person you're dating, or should I stay or should I go? So these are all ways to get insight into that particular question. Okay, and then there's the storyboard. This is specifically with the Wild Unknown, and who is in your energy can be seen here. So we read these, these cards. There's 15. It's a lot of cards. That's why it's a storyboard. We read them across, and then we can read them down, and sometimes I can even read diagonally. But really, the insight comes from knowing what your foundation is in the subject matter, and, and the question can't be frivolous. In other words, this has to be something that's burning you up inside. I need to know the answer to this. Um, if you don't have that question top of mind, not to worry. The tarot deck will reveal what's going on for you. These are very raw energy cards, and they read whether you acknowledge what's going on for yourself consciously or not. Word of warning, I've had people cry as a result of hearing the truth, so that's something to be aware of. Storyboard is great if you want to reveal the foundation of the current situation, where you are in the thick of it, what's coming towards you if nothing changes, and will clarify in, in some ways to see what will happen if you do make changes. So anyways, this is a really great overview storyboard, and that can be used for any subject. And the last one is Dragon Twin Flame. These are beautiful cards that again did not seem to resonate at all with the Celtic Cross or any other reading. They wanted to be read in the specific twin flame masculine-feminine. As we know, dragons are all about the cyclical, right? So there's the, the cycle formation of dragons. And dragon is all about balance and the masculine and feminine, not only within each of us, which is something you can explore with these cards, but usually with your twin flame. And we're talking about the traditional sense of twin flame. Very few people are actually in a twin flame relationship. It is often seen as highly volatile. It is not a regular love story. In other words, twin flame— I reserve this, so ask me about it if you're unsure and I'll help guide you. Okay, so those are all of the decks and all of the spreads that Tea Time Tarot currently offers in a tarot party. All right, enjoy, and we will talk soon.
