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you have to look at tarot cards the right way. no, they will not tell you about your fate or what to do; why should they? but while trying to interpret the meaning of the tarot cards you will get insights into yourself you didn't have before. it is not the cards that tell them, it is yourself; the cards are but a means to get to your unconscious.

it is the same with horoscopes or other methods of divination, by the way. I am not speaking of newspaper horoscopes here, I am speaking of the real McCoy


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Typically, personal prophecies that come from "fortune readers" are kept general enough to apply to pretty much anyone.  The way they make it seem personal is by watching for cues and listening to hints from what their subject is feeding to them, then they take the "card" or whatever they are reading and match it up with those little clues they get from the subject. 
 
However, I think there are some people that do have a certain strong link to the "unknown" that are quite a bit more accurate in predictions than most amateurs that try to make a buck by fooling others.

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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

I think there are 78 cards in a Tarot deck but if anyone seriously believes that there are just 78 variables waiting to decide their fate then they really don't have their problems to seek. I had my fortune read circa 1996 and was asked to choose between the short to medium term or long term reading (with a commensurate hike in price) Only an unprincipled charlatan would quantify divination in these terms. The querent is complicit in the perceived success of any reading and apophenia is every bit as culpable in an interpretation of Crimson's Moon Child as that of of the confirmation bias inherent in any Tarot quackery.
 

Absolutely agree with your words. Still, there's this tiny lair of truth in all such stuff. Like, I don't believe in astrological prophecies, but I do believe in short descriptions of people according to their astrological signs. I have no idea why they really usually tend to be true, but they do - I mean, the astrological signs' descriptions applying to people's characters, etc. Stalin, Zhukov and Churchill were Sagittarius, Lenin and Hitler were Taurus - there's some reason to it. Oh, and Keith Emerson was Scorpio vs Kerry Minnear is Capricorn. 

Similarly, I suppose, in some situations some Tarot cards may definitely mean something, prophecy something - but, on average, it's all lies. Now, that's my opinion. 


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I think there are 78 cards in a Tarot deck but if anyone seriously believes that there are just 78 variables waiting to decide their fate then they really don't have their problems to seek. I had my fortune read circa 1996 and was asked to choose between the short to medium term or long term reading (with a commensurate hike in price) Only an unprincipled charlatan would quantify divination in these terms. The querent is complicit in the perceived success of any reading and apophenia is every bit as culpable in an interpretation of Crimson's Moon Child as that of of the confirmation bias inherent in any Tarot quackery.
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I do not believe in it in the sense of it's being an oracle.  I do read Tarot and collect the decks, because I love the artwork.  I am packed for moving right now, but I believe I have about 20 different decks, including the rare Salvador Dali deck.  I think that the way they are constructed, they are very representative of specific kinds of people and events in most human lives.  I think that they can make one focus on an issue in a different way than one might otherwise, just like interpreting dreams, which I see as the subconscious solving problems or sorting out issues of the day.  Just like taking a problem to someone else to have them help you figure out how to solve it, it is usually suggested that reading one's own cards may not be as helpful, as sometimes it takes another viewpoint (or way of looking at things) to "see," what is in the cards.
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I tried tarot but the messages seemed like they were for someone else. They did not apply to my life.  I did not see the outcomes of the readings manifest in my life.  So I gave my deck away to a friend.  
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The game of tarot is a nice niece of bridge. What do you actually think of the whole tarot cards issue? Do you believe in all that stuff? Does cartomancy work for you? Or perhaps you used to play the game of the same name? Or just used to listen to the respective Rainbow's song and get excited? 

I can tell you totally sincerely that being an Eastern Orthodox Christian, I realize that if a human being is seeking for an easy supernatural mystery, even the pigeon's feces will tell something to such a human being - but that's because the invisible forces will do all the work. As a good example, the first tarot card that I got in my life (thanks to the smartphone app) was the one whose existence had embarrassed me most because of my religious background. Yes, it was the Devil card. Soon I saw it all and understood that interpretations of the cards are too broad... 

What are your impressions and experience on the topic? 
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