Do you belive in Tarot? Why?

Question

Please give your opnion and tell your story about it!

Answer 1

I have been a tarot reader for over 20 years. I believe that Tarot can be a helpful tool to help gain different perspectives on the situation or question. Some people can misunderstand the imagery, and fear them, but they are just a set of cards with lots of metaphorical imagery that can be used to gain insight.

Some believe that the layout of the cards during a reading is guided by fate or some other supernatural force. As a reader, I am not going to say definitively whether that is true or not, but I do believe that there is meaning in each and every card, and each position that they are placed in has meaning as well.

Tarot cards are comprised of symbolism that can be used as a key to your subconscious mind. When laying the cards out in a pattern or layout, each position has meaning. So, each card gains a different layer of meaning when placed in position in a layout.

For example, one spot in the Celtic Cross layout pattern indicates "what is holding you back". If you get a card that symbolizes lack of material comfort, it could mean that there isn't enough money. It could also mean that improvement of skills is important for success. Reading the meanings of the cards in their positions creates a story that the questioner can think about to get additional and impartial insight into their situation.

As a reader, I never ask the questioner what their question is. I read the symbolism of the cards to them and let them apply the meanings themselves. I am a firm believer in our ability to help ourselves, and I am not negating the possibility of supernatural or divine intervention, but my opinion is, if it helps, what does it matter? I hope to empower each person to look at many different possibilities, and consciously make the decisions that are best for them.

So, I personally don't tell people that I tell the future. I don't think that is possible. I think there are many possible futures, depending on what our actions are in the present. When I give a reading, I am hoping to help someone get a good idea of what is going on and what they can do to help themselves change or improve for the better.

So, to answer your question, "do they work?" Yes, in the sense that they can help us see things differently, and as a result think through situations where we might otherwise not know what to do.

Answer 2

I personally use tarot and teach one method.

It is my understanding and belief that the cards are there as a focal point for energy and not much more. In the beginning the reader often relies heavily on the pictures in front of them. As time goes by, and they develop their intuitive nature, They rely less and less on the cards until they can blank cards as easily as normal ones.

After this point the cards are there for the person standing or sitting in front of you. Why? You might ask. Well if you came to me with a question and I gave you an answer then would you take it from me or not? However if you asked me a question and I took some cards out of a nice velvet bag and I layed them on a silk scarf and read them. Would you belive me then?

I'm not saying this is always the case. There are some people who read cards very differently than I do. Either way it's tapping into their Intuitive and Spiritual Natures. I've made many believers in the past 10 or more years and I expect to make many more. It's all about how open the person is to the experience.

When I do readings I make sure to let people know that what I am telling them might not necesarily be a reading of the future. Only a small percentage of my readings involve the real future. Most readings involve current problems. The ones that do hint at the futere are just a snapshot of the most likely outcome if everything stays just as it is at this moment. sometimes the very act of telling someone what is going to happen will change that future.

Answer 3

Actually, you will be surprised to know that the Torah, and the current bible, are both based on the tarot. At the time they were using symbolic (less peoples could write, so drawings were more understood), and was the least corruptible way of spreading wisdoms and religious beliefs in a population. But then some decided to put everything in writings, making religion more corruptible by the subtle meanings of words. So the Torah was writen (Judaism), then from the Torah appear the Bible (Christians share similar religious roots with Judaism). So it means, that in a way, depending on which tarot you are using, you are doing what our ancestors were doing few thousands years ago! And I guess it works so well, that it spawned the biggest and most powerful religions in the world today!

Answer 4

I have been reading Tarot for 2 years. Its nothing that you believe IN really. Its a method. A technique. A tool. Nothing more. The skill is in the reader not the cards.

They can be extremely accurate. The way it works is in terms of past, present, and future. If life were a road map it would be like pointing out the bumps and detours. It gives the path that your life is most likely to take. Not neccessarily what WILL happen but what is likely to happen.

They can also give insight into people. But like I said before it is the own readers intuition that is actually doing the work. The cards just help inspire the reader.

Answer 5

Personally I believe in Palmistry and Astrology more.
I believe some people can 'read' a person, and the cards might be an avenue to use to do that. If it's a 'cold read' or a 'reading of the person's soul', i'm not sure.
My problem is, that too many inexperienced, and non-psychics use tarot to predict the future or other things for a person, and give tarot reading a bad name, to true readers/psychics.
Also, one thing is, it seems to easy to pick any card, that if you pick any card...somehow it can relate to you.
I do believe there are psychics, but if they use tarot, it's more of a show to help convince the client, because the client would have less trust in a psychic, if the psychic didn't have some attractive method of divination like the tarot deck.

Answer 6

I believe in tarot cards as a divination tool. I do not believe IN them themselves. And that's an important difference.

People with empathic abilities (I loate the word psychic) can use tarot and other tools in order to aid their perceptions when doing a reading for someone. I always tell people that there is no set future, because you largely create it with your actions. Each of the cards has a symbolism, and those symbols vary with each reader.

I have been doing tarot intrepretations for over 15 years.

Answer 7

I do believe in tarot reading. I myself am a tarot reader. I've helped people with problems and issues that they think they can't do it. Tarot is not really of interpreting the future, its more like knowing what happens when you take a particular type of action. I believe in it cause most things that i have seen for myself have come true and help me out in terms of the worst.

Answer 8

I'm a reader and I've always been accurate. The death card came up in the future for a kids whose mother developed cancer. The empress came up in the past for someone who had had a miscarriage. The most freaky is recently I've been scary accurate, I told someone was doing a reading for online that he had a rigid mother, had never stood up to her, and he never would, and because of that his upcoming marriage would bring him power but not love. And that fate was deciding his life. It was all there. It wasn't just a random card that was right, all the cards supported each other to give me a clear picture.
The Tarot is about the reader and the questioner: the reader must know instinctively what that card in that position means, and the questioner must be focused on what they want the reading to show them.

Answer 9

I do. I have a tarot deck that was specially made for my great-grandmother. All the women before me have been able to read tarot. My mother obviously thought nothing of me being allowed to play with (by then) my grandmother's deck until I was 5 and told her (accurately) that my brother was dead. I was not allowed to use the cards again for years. They now belong to me and are as accurate as ever.

Answer 10

Yes, i do believe in Tarot. Just not in the people who read the cards.