Anyone believe in tarot reading?
 

Been tried out several times with different tarot readers. They seemed like telling me the truths. Wanna know if anyone has ever tried it our...care to share with me your experience?:)

I dont believe in those things and would never want a reading, even if it is free! :eek:

I've been reading the Tarot for years for my friends and family and I really enjoy it. I must say that my accuracy is pretty impressive! I am not Madame Cleo, however! lol

Ok, someome mentioned Madame Cleo, and I just had to say this.. I once almost worked as a phone psychic for the same company as her... It's 60% listening, 30% counseling, and 10% luck.

I don't believe in that stuff. My friend went to a psychic for a $10 reading who told her that she had problems with her aura. the psychic said that she would "cleanse her aura" for about $100. I told her that if she did it, she would soon have financial problems. :eek:

I'm mixed about this-I have a friend who does it and her readings are always pretty true. However, I once went to a Bar Mitzvah a few months ago, and the family had hired a tarot/ rune/palm reader to do readings for whomever wanted one. I got one done, and it was so out there. She told me that my boyfriend had commitment problems and I needed to break up with him-but then she told me that all men are evil, and she always gets screwed over by men...so

oops! got cut off there..anyhoo, listening to her personal opinions made me take her reading with a grain of salt.

There is a festival in Texas every year called the Renaissance festival-I go frequently and usually have a tarot or palm reading-complete bullsh** but I always am entertained. One of the technicians that worked in my clinic read tarot cards-she was very good. Told me I would not get married for 5 years-so far she is rt.

I went to one with a Girl Friend once . . . When the Girl Friend asked about us as a couple, the Psychic said I was good for her.

When I asked about us as a couple, the psychic said the relationship would last as long as I wanted it to.

Needless to say that didn't go over too well when we compared notes later. LOL

I had a tarot reading once. What the woman told me was something anyone could have told me. "You are having problems at work.....You are stressing out right now.....You are having problems with your boyfriend....Something big is coming your way" I do not believe in it. I think it is just a form of entertainment. Not that it is entertaining when they tell you stuff you already knew and you have to pay $20!

Actually my mom and I have actually had both of our tarot cards read a few times and well scary enough it has turned out to be true....its pretty wierd but there are some out there that do have a gift like that many dont but some do and when you find someone who does its scary lol

Nichole

I do believe in all things labeld "psychic". It's just that so many frauds enter the field. When you consider how animals communicate (especally dolphins) and how we humans originally communicated I feel it's very "real". The only question I have is-what psychic ability is really being used...is someone reading the cards or are they actually clairvoyant?

My son and I had a connecton when he was little...they say you lose your openness as you get older and your conscious mind tells you to reject it (plus...it isn't necessary for survival any more)
Add to that, my daughter had three car wrecks that a palmist "foresaw" all three, how COULD I just blow it off as nothing...

When I was little, I had SOMETHING that kept me out of danger-I woud hear my name being called so softly, like a whisper. Sure enough, there would be a snake or something dangerous in the vicinity.

On a side note, ever since the Exorcist-no Ouija boards in MY house!

I agree. The sidewalk around Jackson Square in the New Orleans French Quarter is full of them at their "reading tables." I always viewed them as cultish and somewhat adjacent to the vodoo, gothic, and witchcraft themes that have attached themselves down here.

I actually got tarot cards for a present once and I've been reading them for my sisters. "Reading" is a strong term since I don't know what any of the cards mean, so I have to go straight off the book definitions, but just based off that, all the readings I've done for people have been super-accurate. Of course, since I know my sisters well, I know situations in their lives that the cards can be applied to, but there were a couple that had no meaning for me but the person I read said they were dead on. I don't read myself though, the one time I did, it was all true except for the future one, which ended up coming true a month later. Could just be coincidence, but it was freaky enough where I won't touch them for myself anymore.

My sister used to read tarot very accurately. I believe in it, but I also believe a large majority of people who read tarot are not psychic, just good at guessing.

I would say that I don't really believe in it but a sister of mine read me and my husbands Tarot cards one month after meeting us and I would have to say that she really hit the target. She didn't know anything about us and a lot of stuff that my husband and I talked about we had never discussed with anyone. It was kind of creepy...she later became my little sister!!

Have a nice day :)

The first thing she told me was that reading your own tarot cards is bad luck. Now, I don't really believe in "luck" at all -- things happen. They can be prevented if you are willing to make the sacrifices and decisions that are necessary. However, in all the tarot books I've read, there are no warning about how reading your own cards or looking at the pictures on your cards when you're not reading them is bad luck.

Nope-not true. There are different layouts you use when making a "quickie" type reading however, be it for youself or another.

Two things all books say are important though-
When not in use-wrap them in their cloth and keep them in a place where they won't be misused or moved about. For example-if you leave them out and you rush to straighten things up-you might put a mag. over them or toss them into a drawer.

Second-very important-You and the person you read for should be the ONLY ones to handle the cards.

As far as the bad coming back to you-never heard or read that. Sounds like some information put out there to discourage the practice.

It's all bunk!!!
 

It's difficult to imagine that anybody would believe in this stuff. The only bearing on reality is the perception of those who subscribe to it.

I think tarot cards are real. :) I have like, three decks. Don't read much since I came to college though. The bad stuff coming back...yeah that is karma. Don't cheat people or tell them they are going to die. That is unethical.

One of my sorors does tarot readings and she is ALWAYS right on the money. It's actually kind of scary. Speaking of New Age stuff. I got a new dream book and the stuff I dream about and look up is kinda scary!

I have been reading cards for years. I'm acurrate most of the time - I'd say 97%. The trick is that any good card reader is also a good person reader. I sit and talk with the person for a bit before the reading and then proceed. Anyone in old San Antone who wants a reading, let me know, I'll do it for free.:)

Forgive my skepticism. I have seen some strange, unexplainable stuff, but in general, I think that Tarot readings are a gimmick, and in retrospect, I should have gotten into it as a profession. Good returns on mostly generalized guesses wrapped around common sense counseling.

Bumping this because I am majorly procrastinating.

I believe in occult-type stuff to a point....Tarot is one of the things I believe in. I read my own cards from time to time, and though I never get precise answers, I also don't generally ask precise questions. (Probably too afraid of the accuracy, lol)

I own the Rider-Waite deck and the Tarot of the Ages.

I pretty much agree with you, Senusret. I have my own cards and while I'm not very good at readings, I'm getting better with practice . . .

I'm not sure I believe in a lot of occult type things, but I don't consider Tarot cards "occult" -- to me they are just a way of focusing your thinking and getting you to think in new ways and bring up ideas that you may not have thought of.

Senruset - You might be like me as far as I have a hard time doing a reading for myself but am usually pretty accurate when reading others.

S&S - I agree with what you said about the Tarot helping you to focus your thinking. I think of it as a way to exercise the mind!

wooo wooo I see ghosts. Let me bust out a ouija board. Wooo wooo you are all crazies for believing in this. Wooo wooo I have some magic crystals to sell you!

-Rudey
--You wanna see visions? Go talk to one of those guys that's white with an afro and has drowsy eyes and buy a dime bag

There are actually people that make their living -- have businesses in strip malls as psychic/tarot/palm reader types around here.

Never been though.

Some people have the gift to do certain things.

Actually, all have a gift. I have had hits of wisdom about insights that are not to be beleived.

It takes some honeing to perfect it, most dont take the time to do it.

Oh of course there are many Like Madam SuSu who is a gypsy who make nothing but money from dumb asses! DA!

No one really knows what the Brain is capable of, do any of you?

Used to do self hypnosis and got distracted and lost it.

Had a Hypnotist at GA, Amazing what people did. NOt jsut ones on the stage, but ones brought up on stage from the room to be a part of after they were in a semi trance for lack of a better word.

Truth cannot ever be stranger than what it be really like!!!

I've been reading the tarot since I was about 14. So far I haven't done any damage. I've been tald I'm quite accurate, actually.

And yes, you're right about the readers congregating in Jackson Square. They seem a bit freaky to me, but I leave them alone, and they leave me alone.

As for "Miss Cleo"...the less said, the better.

B to the iz ump

Bumping because I got into it again, way more seriously than before. :)

I was scarily accurate in a family incident earlier this year and was so frightened that I put away all of my cards. But when I went to New Orleans, I got interested again. I stopped being afraid of my accuracy and started going with it. I practice a little every week.

Do you use the regular sized version? Because they do make the Giant and the Mini. Here's the mini.

I use the Albano-Waite because the colors are vivid. I have a bunch more kinds, but only the Rider decks really speak to me.

I don't believe in it. I'm fairly cynical about this type of stuff.

go to Banyen Books on West 4th - they used to carry the Rider Waiter in different sizes & I bet that they still do! They also have tonnes of other types of decks. I have the Motherpeace one, which is ROUND and I love it.

Me too. I actually bought a set and read about how to do it when I was in high school. I found the meanings of the cards and how they work together (regardless of how they are chosen) to be vague and could be applied to about anything rather than specifics, like the "prophecies" of Nostradamus. I think they are a bunch of nonsense.

I threw them out with the trash when I became a Born Again Christian.

Crowley's deck is awesome. I love it.

Can you believe I had the Crowley deck ten years ago and threw it away??? Now the damn thing is out of print!

hmmm, Sen.. how do I get an appointment with you or something? Because I need some advice on how to handle some stuff. I"m so serious..

New Orleans is a mecca for the craft.