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What do you think of Tarot readings?
Posted by Lucyvp • 6/17/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Have you had one done? Did you get an accurate reading?
I've only ever had one reading, and I was told I'd be going overseas. I had no plans to go overseas that year, but someone offered to buy me a ticket and I ended up going to the UK (from Oz). She told me I wouldn't be winning the lottery any time soon. Fun sucker! 
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I think you are the only one in control of your mind and your thoughts and you should never let another gain any kind of control over it...
But that is just me
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Give me fifty dollars and I'll fish for a response.-
It can be a good little side business, I knew a guy that travelled the world doing it, when I asked him if he was any good he said "No but the money is". He was American, I met him i India, he lived in Holland, I ran into him in Sydney.
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I don't believe in the effectiveness of tarot card readings, but the cards themselves can have quite lovely/interesting art on them. I've enjoyed seeing them for their mythic and artistic value.-
My ex bought some lovely tarot cards adorned with William Blake art just for their artistic value. -
Oh very nice. Blake's art really seems appropriate, too, given some of its themes.
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I do not believe in them. People always focus on the parts of the readings that come to pass and not on the parts that do not or that are just plain vague..
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I view them as light entertainment.
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I'll do a reading for you, it won't be light...send me your paw print
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Very fake, not funny and not entertaining. People go to jail for fraud all of the time over this stuff. -
Interesting to see all 'unbelievers' so far. Has anyone ever had a positive experience with them?
I agree, there is some beautiful art on some of the decks. I tried to learn to read them but there's far too much to remember. -
I do tarot readings and I am told that I am pretty accurate....I only ever do it for friends and won't take money for doing it.
I do believe that some strange stuff comes out using them and have lots of examples which actually defy some of my original thoughts about them before I ever started to study.
The one thing I have found at times is that I have had to remind people that they are advisory, not cast in stone and you really shouldn't be basing decisions on a spread which is often very dependant on your feelings for the day.
For example, if I do my own and I am not feeling very well, I can guarantee that almost all of the more negative cards will come out in that reading...which of course is interesting in itself! -
I have 2 decks - I enjoy them, they are fun and use them only when asked by friends, I can use a regular card deck too. They are a snap shot of "now" - and now is quite changable. The energy of this moment is going to be different then the energy of a different moment in time. Free will overrides everything. So - if, when offered a free ticket, Lucy said no - the cards "prediction" would not have come to pass.-
I'm trying to get my mind around this - does that mean that the prediction that I won't be winning the lottery is changeable too? If everything is changeable, what is the value of predicting the future?
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Sorry for the late reply - I am no pro - but my uderstanding is the cards show the path that you are currently on (so to speak). That is not to say that you can change directions at will though. Noone's fate is in stone - you always have 100% countrol of your life... the cards are not meant to be "fortune tellers" but more like advisors - sensing the engery around a situation that will give you a greater understanding of where you are and the options you have. I don't think I have the "you won the lottery" card in my deck
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Yup, that's right. Tarot cards don't predict the future any more so than you or I could look at a scenario and give a solid guestimation of what will happen next. That part of paid reading is a scam.
Besides that, readings provide you with an insight to your individual and particular issue at that moment in time, and once you have addressed that issue and come to a possible solution or choice, you have just altered your so called "future" which is not set in stone.
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I think they're as powerful as you let them be.. You ultimately decide where you go in life and what you do! --Not a card!-
Hmmm...food for thought. This could lead to a discussion about fate vs master of your own destiny. It'd be interesting to see a poll on it.
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"Have you had one done? Did you get an accurate reading?"
Yes on the former; no on the latter. -
The one on my Facebook account lies to me all the time -
If psychics/tarot readings are real how come they’re always trying to sell you a “reading” for twenty freaking dollars instead of picking the right lottery numbers or something? -
Bunkam..designed to make you worry. -
I read tarot regularly.
Anyone who charges you for a reading is either a fake or a person with little regard for the art of reading.
Readings are not supernatural and the cards are merely a tool. They posses no magical power - the reader is intuitive to the querant and can help the querant decipher practical answers to life's problems.
Tarot readings are not designed to tell the future. They are intended to help you bring your feelings, worries, concerns or joys or questions to light so that you can accurately verbalize what you are feeling and then work on a solution, if any is needed. -
lol.
The Tarot is a deck of cards now commonly used in 'fortune telling', or divination. Divination using cards is called cartomancy. The deck consists of four numbered suits like a regular deck of playing cards, and twenty two picture cards numbered one through twenty-two (in some decks, zero through twenty-one).
The cards appeared at roughly the same time as the now-universal 52-card deck, and it is a matter of dispute which came first. The Tarot deck has fourteen cards in each suit, versus thirteen for playing cards; the Tarot 'court cards' include a page along with the knight (knave), queen and king.
The twenty-two picture cards, now called the Major Arcana (the suited cards are the Minor Arcana), were originally permanent trump cards. That is, in a trick-taking game, any picture card would take a trick over a suit-card. They illustrate universal story themes; the Fool is a young man setting off on a journey with a pack insouciantly slung over his shoulder. He is often depicted not watching where he's going, and about to walk off the edge of a cliff, while a small dog yaps at his heels in warning. Other cards depict concepts rather than people - the wheel of fortune is fate or karma, and the figure of Judgment is justice in all its forms.
The suits have direct analogies to standard playing cards: swords are spades, cups are hearts, pentacles (coins, discs) are diamonds and wands (staves) are clubs.
The use of the Tarot as a tool for telling fortunes is of fairly recent invention, dating back to the end of the eighteenth century. The most familiar deck is the so-called Rider-Waite deck. The designs were by Arthur Waite, a member of the occult society Order of the Golden Dawn, in collaboration with artist Pamela Colman Smith, so the deck is sometimes called the Waite-Smith deck. It was first published by the Rider Company in 1909.
Hundreds of different Tarot decks now exist. Decks that downplay or remove the Christian symbolism are increasingly popular, and some feminist decks significantly downplay the male dominant roles found in traditional decks. Some decks have discarded the suit system altogether and are structured around different themes - animals in a Native American inspired deck, for example.-
Is that at me?
I know the history of the tarot decks.
That doesn't mean they posses any magical power. many readers use regular playing cards, books, bones, dice or nothing at all.
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Not everbody knows though eh?
Sharing is caring my little antiestablishmentarian chum.-
I think you need a kitteh avatar
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What's a Kitteh? lol
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That's LOL-speak for kitty. I'm hooked on I can haz cheezburger. *shrug*
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Ahhhh..first rule about forchan is don't talk about forchan. Second rule about forchan is that it's not really cool anymore.
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RULES 1 AND 2... only apply to raids; I know.
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I'm a non believer in tarot cards. I believe in mystery and living in the now. I like to sit in meditation and read my feelings -
I believe in Tarot cards..I done seen'em in a shop. But theyr'e just cards. It's all a bunch of teabags and rattlings for the feeble minded.
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@DVS - Really? *laugh*
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I think sometimes its good to have an open mind...from my experience, there isn't an explanation for some of the very positive readings I have had from questions.
But, I cannot fit myself into the "fortune teller" category either as I have seen this very misused! -
Leave your mind open..and who knows what'll walk in!
Nope...it's bunkum..dangerous neo-satanic demon raising dead taunting hokum..an' no good will come of it! you mark my words!
Stay on the path...STAY ON THE PATH... -
I want a reading from Anok! -
You got it, horseboy
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Anok provides a pretty good explanation, I think.
And bunkum it may be, although I have had some pretty odd experiences. The one that suprised me the most was a guy who wanted to ask a question, so we shuffled them, he asked his question (which I didn't want to know), then he picked a card and I gave him the advice from that card.
Meanwhile I shuffled them all back up to clear them. 5 minutes later, he said, look I don't think I phrased that very well, can I do them again? So he reshuffled the cards, thinking of his question, pulled a card and it was the same one!
He looked a little surprised and we carried on discussing other things and I reset the cards yet again.
Half an hour later, he asked me again, look I really didn't ask that question very well, can I do them again?
So he proceded all over again to shuffle them and ask his question and for the third time, he pulled the same card.
He looked at me and said "how many of them blimin' cards are in the pack?"...
I looked at him and replied "only the one".
I always wanted to work out the odds but its all too much for my feeble mathematics -
I think people go to Tarot readers because they want someone to tell them their life is going to be better. Considering we create our own reality, they are true if you believe it to be.
I think it can cripple your thinking to believe in anything like that. My grandmother was a fortune teller, it's pretty hereditary but I'm opposed to doing that stuff for money.
It's easy to put fear into yourself and freak yourself out. It's just another dependency. But I will restate if you believe it to be true, it is, just like Jesus and Buddha, wheras an atheist will not include them into their reality...so they don't exist.
We have an assumption that we all experience the same reality, I don't subscribe to that view at all. I've been in places in India where people have given totally different accounties about what actually happened when they visited some of the Indian Saints and Sages, at the same place same time, completely different experiences from very sane people. -
Tarot is interesting. Now and then I look at it, though I prefer the I Ching (Yi Jing). The cards of the Tarot represent the human journey, the road of the human experience. What one sees in the card, can tell a lot of what one sees in his/her own lot at that moment. The jester, the lovers, the crashing towers. What each person sees says much of where one is.
The future is consensus, so how it may foretell, I do not know. If there is a higher plane of existence, maybe there is a way to look down and see something, that I cannot - a helicopter view of life, as one can say.
Tarot is interesting, when it is studied. But, as I said, I prefer the Yi Jing. It is even more mysterious. -
I had a reading once...the woman freaked out because there were two tower cards in the pack..she was really bothered by it. Clearly she had two packs mixed, although she swore she didn't. I laughed and left..crazy people.
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No need to freak out. But some people do tend to overdo it. Towers are not only the end - but they are also the beginning. Beginning of what?
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Really
Very subtle..as in brick, methinks you have a wicked SOH! -
Haha sounds like someone set her up
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It's true..she really did freak out. I left that place feeling like DAMIEN.
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Good to meet you Damien
Despite your very odd humour....you really don't need that flag as your avatar!
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Odd humour? How so?
Yeah..the flag's not all that popular these days..but i'm using my massive online presence to try and give it new life....call me the UK ONLINE PR PRESIDENT. -
Tarot can be generalised and unskilled - it depends on the state fo mins of the recipient, the setting and how open they are to sweeping statements....
Some readings can be very effective!
One question though - WHY do they always advertise ' Psychic fayre - newxt Friday night at 8pm' - Wouldnt they already know? -
I own 2 deck of cards a guild and animal spirit cards. I use them to meditate, inmediate guide for the day but I don't think anything that what they might said its written on stone since I am in control of my free will to do what choice I please through my life. I would not say they are fake, since it depends on the state of mind of the reader. I would not say that they are accure because you are in control of your life at all times and you change the outcome through your choices and free will. If they tell fortune, don't you think everyone would have a deck of Tarot in their home by now?
I have my respect for Tarot cards, I have done some reading to friends and strangers with my animal spirit guide cards, they seems to work for what its asked. However, among all the readins I have, only one was impressive and it was done with a regular deck of cards that you buy for $1, so its not the cards..its the reader's perception and vision who give languange to the cards.
Among readings, I believe the ones coming from a Medium are the more impressive readings but then again, this post its about Tarot..
I saw among the comments about charging money for reading..I don't think some of you are aware that its not the information or reading per se on sale, but the energy and time of the reader.
"If" I am a proffesional tarot, psychic or medium reader, I will charge for my energy and time not the reading or info giving through that reading, because instead of me spending my time and energy reading for you, I could be taking care of my house, family or just have a "me" time per se.
The saying at there is "Time is money"..if you are doing things for others like moving furniture, school paper, cleaning a house, counseling, social work, would you do it for free? No, because time is money and energy waste its gratified with money according with our human needs.
Consider a Tarot reading as a counseling seccion, because you are counseling the cards for guidance after all...and counseling seccion of any kind does cost money
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Might as well waste your money donating it to me. I'll tell you your future, "I can see you doing a charitable deed."-
LOL, I am doing a charitable deed for the past 12 months, I am in Iraq as US Soldier paying for Iraqie's injuries with YOURS and MINE tax money. How do you feel about that? Hurts, isn't it! LOL Time is money as well war
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I do my own readings nearly every day. I've gotten the Death card twice this week alone. Last year I got the tower repeatedly for months. -
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.” ~Stephen Wright. -
I like 'em -
I think that the tarot is something that analysis the inner self of the querent, and as such is more of a step on the journey of spiritual enlightenment than a divination tool.
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