Can the tarot cards really tell about the future?

Question

What is the truth behind tarot cards?

Answer 1

the truth is that the meaning in each card is open-ended, letting you interpret however you want them to.

Answer 2

The many different tarot decks available will all portray symbolic imagery which must then pass through your psychic senses and, given the context of the questions asked, bring forth a tarot card meaning that significantly answers your question.


I am a professional psychic and always have at least 4 different decks on the go at any one time. When a deck get’s a bit too well worn I buy a new deck (often from eBay). I prefer to work with as new a deck of cards as possible so the shuffle and deal smoothly and quickly. I usually sell my old decks on eBay too. Here’s a live RSS feed for Tarot Decks on eBay at the moment. http://feeds.feedburner.com//TarotDeck

You can use this four minute video as a brief meditation on the tarot that, repeatedly viewed, will help you learn how to read tarot cards psychically. http://www.psychic-junkie.com/tarotvision.html

Answer 3

No, they cannot tell the future.
They're *cards* that a practiced user of them can use to *convince* you that they show something, but they don't. The people who sell their services to do tarot readings are the same kind of people that do palm readings, cast horoscopes, and do other scams...they're very good at asking you questions to elicit information that they use to make guesses about you, they're very good at reading body language, and they're very good salespeople -- they don't know anything about the future.
Every time -- EVERY SINGLE TIME -- tarot readings have been put to scientific tests, they've failed. They do no better than chance at predicting anything. That means you're just as likely to know what will happen tomorrow by flipping a coin as from a tarot reading.

I can predict your future for you (better than they can): instead of spending money on a tarot reading, put it in a savings account -- then I guarantee that you'll have more money a month from now than you do now (because of interest in the account). :)

Answer 4

Tarot cards can tell about the future, as can any symbolic system. Whether they are accurate is a completely different question.

The tarot is arguably more useful than a personal system you might come up with on your own, because it uses mythological symbols that have meaning for many people. Different cultures and individuals attach different values to spiritual experiences such as tarot readings, from considering them 'a scam' to relying completely on their veracity. Generally, in business or politics, it would be unwise to cite the tarot as your source, however much you might rely on it in fact.

Answer 5

why do you want to know about future, when there is so much to know and do in present. But still I don't think tarot card or any such fortune teller is real. I mean they all are fake. They were fake, and they will be fake. Don't waste thousands of money on such people, instead you can make your own future( I guess they tell only your future and not others). These things (magic, fortune telling)are only going to happen in movies.

Answer 6

You need two things, besides a full deck. You need to have faith, or at least not be an absolute doubter, and the person reading the cards must be well versed in the symbolisms expressed on each card. Even the order in which they appear can signify different events.

For centuries, people have used the tarot to help them gain access to spiritual knowledge and explore universal truths. You don’t have to be spiritually inclined to get something out of the tarot. Even the most hard-boiled materialist, with the assistance of The Knight, The Fool, the Lovers, the Hanged Man, and all the rest of the major and minor arcana, can achieve deep insights into their own true natures and the natures of others in their lives. Used properly, the tarot can reveal to us our deepest longings, help us to confront our fears, and allow us to recognize unspoken emotional and psychological obstacles to happiness.

Carl Jung was the first psychologist to attach importance to tarot symbolism. He may have regarded the tarot cards as representing archetypes: fundamental types of person or situation embedded in the subconscious of all human beings. The Emperor, for instance, represents the ultimate patriarch or father figure.
The theory of archetypes gives rise to several psychological uses. Some psychologists use tarot cards to identify how a client views himself or herself, by asking the patient to select a card that he or she identifies with. Some try to get the client to clarify his ideas by imagining his situation or relationship in terms of tarot images: Is someone rushing in heedlessly like the Knight of Swords perhaps, or blindly keeping the world at bay as in the Rider-Waite-Smith Two of Swords? The Tarot has been said to be a kind of language of the "subconscious" , allowing it to be analysed at the conscious level. Like most "New Age" therapies, however, tarot cards are not widely used by mainstream psychologists. Although Jung along with Sigmund Freud are still seen as important innovators, the majority of psychologists today are quite critical of many aspects of their theories. Moreover, there are no known university programs that teach this practice and there is no empirical evidence of therapeutic benefit. There are also no scientific papers published on their use in any professional journals. More likely, individuals who practice these "techniques" can be seen as being on the fringes of the field.

Answer 7

Yes, if the person reading them has a connection with the cards

Answer 8

You might have seen their performance on TV while predicting the out come of Indian Cricket team and individual player's performance before the recent India-South Africa one dayers.They try and evade a straight comitted answer ,and were wrong in their prediction in 3 out of 4 times whenever they risked one.I am sure anybody else- any lay person ,wouldn't do any worse.

Answer 9

hard worker always depend on his work which is done by him. He Nieves depend on the tarot cards.I really don't tarot cards can tell our future.bu our is depend on our work.

Answer 10

yes it might tell real
each horoscopes not gives 100 % truth.
it depend on u, on which u believes