I get my tarot cards reads every six months. I'm a huge believer in them and all things related

Been dying to do it for a while thought i may aswell when i was out today, and it was SO accurate, i thought she'd be all vague but she was so specific! x

I'm very skeptical since reading books on magic and cons and stuff. Some of the books I have tell you how to cheat people into thinking you're an expert tarrot reader, as well as other false psychic schemes and tells you about cold reading and stuff. Anyway I used to beleive all this sort of stuff until recently. Also when you think about it, how can a deck of cards tell someone about your life? If they really could, they have only been around for so many hundred years, maybe thousands I don't know, but they are a man made thing, I fail to see how they can work. I think tarrot readers are very clever at what they do though and that some actually beleive in it themselves. I'd still love to get mine read, but don't beleive in it at all.

With ideas like these I've always spoken of science, of the vagueness of the predictions. However I do try to keep my mind open. A guy I now is a wiccan (aswell as a Hells Angel) who specialises in Tarot Cards. He's done a couple of readings for me and has been disturbingly accurate, not just in the typical prediction sense but in the true background of Tarot, in the readings of energy. I have to say I do bear his predictions in mind, even if I don't fully believe in them.

When bipolar came up to a mind, body, spirit festival she had hers done. She said she was skeptical, but apparently when I walked past the woman said she could tell I was into acting and dramatics. Which is very true because I direct and act in plays and am part of a Theatre Company. I was too skeptical to have my cards done so I had a psychic reading instead and she was about 60% accurate.

I had mine read once. I was told that I would have a baby within a year and the following year would have a second. I laughed and then it came true, lol.

I was pretty doubtful but the things she said were so specific, i broke up with my boyfriend on thursday night and she basicly managed to sum up our whole relationship and everything i'd been thinking about him, and she started talking about media and education and i'm on a media course going into my 3rd year. She told my best friend there would be a pregnancy in the family and as soon as we got home she got a phone call to say her aunty is pregnant! I'm a believer now, i'll definatly be going back!

Another tarot reader told one of my friends not to get them read for another 6 months after her reading, why is that?

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by Eve
Another tarot reader told one of my friends not to get them read for another 6 months after her reading, why is that?

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That's pretty standard as what they tell you in a reading can last for 6 - 12 months, so if you go sooner then you're not really being told anything different.

Ah righty ok! That makes sense lol! x

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by Teresa
I had mine read once. I was told that I would have a baby within a year and the following year would have a second. I laughed and then it came true, lol.

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Oooh scary!

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Another tarot reader told one of my friends not to get them read for another 6 months after her reading, why is that?

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As far as I know the general advice given is that any specific timeframe is fairly useless: you'll just know when your reading's run it's course, as should the reader.

(Edited by Havoc 17/07/2005 18:25)

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by Eve
Another tarot reader told one of my friends not to get them read for another 6 months after her reading, why is that?

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Also, I suspect it's to stop the customer becoming over-reliant - being able to talk about yourself without restrictions can become pretty addictive, which is why it can also be difficult to give up counselling / therapy.

I first learned to read the cards in about 1988, from my ex-fiancee up in Norwich who also bought me my first deck. (Lizzie: the ex isn't the one you're probably thinking, but we did both work in the shop from time to time and she introduced me to N.) I never imposed any rules about frequency, but I was absolutely rigid about never doing a reading for someone who'd been drinking or had taken drugs. (Well, I tried to be, anyway - it's difficult to refuse a maudlin boozed-up student who's in tears because he's homesick and misses his mother.)

I don't do many readings now, but I used to have a bit of a reputation for it, although not always a good one: when I worked on a production line in Bedfordshire my readings were responsible for the break-up of four relationships with a combined length of eight years

The thing about that, though, was that these were relationships that were better off ended: in all cases the result didn't come from 10 bits of pasteboard on a workbench, they came through 40 minutes of talking through the person's situation using the cards as cues. In each case the woman concerned looked at her situation with fresh eyes and decided she was better off out of it.

And that to me is the important thing about doing a reading. I'm sure there are readers who slap down the cards, cackle, and say 'a-ha dearie, I see you're going to meet a tall, dark stranger who will roger you senseless, steal all your money and elope with your sister'. It's just, I never met any of them, and I never learned from any of them.

The way I do it, the balance and tone of the chosen cards give an overview of the person's life and concerns at that moment. Added to this, the combination of a specific card and the specific place in the lay-out offers a way into exploring an area of the customer's life - for example, if the Two of Swords comes up in the place in the lay-out that represents the customer's immediate environment, I'd ask who they'd been arguing with recently.

And there's the question I can't answer - how did that card get there? It's that process, the one that so often puts exactly the right cards in exactly the right place, that stops the Tarot being nothing more than a counsellor's tool. I don't pretend to know why that happens - I just know it does...

I am intrigued by tarot readings, but I've only ever had two done before. One was many years ago and to be honest I can't even remember what I was told, never mind if any of it came *true*.

The second was only a few years ago and the lady who did them was very impressive. She had a caring personality and it was almost like I imagined a life coaching session to be. When *bad* cards came up she stressed the positives as well as the negatives and I left there with a sense of awe. Many things that she said were accurate enough to accept, but a lot of response was how I would interpret them and whether I would apply myself to changes (which I did't)

I think the tape is around the house somewhere, it would be interesting to find it and see if anything specific has occured since the reading.

I was hoping to see the same lady again recently, but it seems the psychic fair didn't happen on the day it was advertised. Perhaps the psychics knew something that we didn't