tarot card reading - piffle or something in it?

[5129frederick]

I've always put tarot card readings on the same level as horoscopes - rubbish in every sense of the word, but some time back there was a report in the paper of a woman who gave a tarot card reading to a bloke and recoiled in horror.  As I remember the first card she turned over was a crumbling tower and the second one was the Devil.

"What terrible deed have you done!"  She demanded to which he broke down and confessed he'd killed a man in a fight three days earlier!  She then called the police while carrying on giving him a reading!  When they went round to this person's address they found his body!  

I was inclined to dismiss it as rubbish, but it got me thinking - is there really something in it?  I'm half inclined to buy a pack and dabble in it to see what turns up on the turn of three cards and try to analize it.  After all, if it gives a health warning you could always change the odds by staying in bed that day!  

As a practising Methodist I know my Minister would take a very dim view and tell me not to dabble in the unknown, but it's a case of curiosity killed the cat.  Donald Campbell foresaw his own death when attempting to break the waterspeed record on Lake Coniston many years ago.   Wasting my money, or am I playing with fire?

Any views on the subject?  Has anybody had a tarot reading that came true?  Over to you:

[mustard-tree]

I have a set of Tarot Cards, but have read somewhere that you can`t do a reading for yourself.

Even though the cards come with the meanings, it is still a matter of interpretation

As in your illustration, the meaning of the crumbling tower card depends on the card that follows.

As to horoscopes, the ones you see in newspapers and magazines are pretty meaningless, as there are only 12 different ones spread across the whole population.

But if you plot individual horoscopes, based on date, place and time of birth, even half an hour difference in time of birth makes a difference to the horoscope meaning.

[**forum-decorum**]

Being a JW, I would certainly steer well clear, as we are taught it isn't dabbling in the unknown it is actually dabbling with wicked spirits and that we are well warned off.

That in turn explains something about your story, that there is something in it but not a good something. Wicked spirits have a knack of making people believe in things because they can glean from their actions etc what that person puts importance on and what they want to hear, so they come up trumps.  if you know what I mean.

[picturediary]

Hi There,

Being an Artist I have a lot of decks of tarot and angel cards and I am an extremely spiritual woman.  There is always light and dark to every situation in your life.  All you have to do is turn your obstacles into opportunities.

No matter what you are facing, Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Have a sparkle of a day!

Sally-Anne

[5129frederick]

Fair do's - I have been warned!  I'll stick to Nostradamus instead!   In betwix  times of that and waiting for the Rapture I shall confuse myself even more by reading the Book of Revelations - some of which is so abstract it makes it nigh on impossible to decypher - creatures being covered with eyes etc.  Big Brother ott?  That sort of thing.  Is  there a book out there that tries to make sense of what St. John the Divine was describing?  Stars falling from the  heavens is generally accepted as a meteorite shower.  A heck of a lot of it is too vague by far.  Some of it is quite specific though - the damming of the Euphrates for example.  Chairman Mao actually said at at a push he could raise an army of 200,000.000.  No way could you airlift that number of people.  They'd just walk across whatever land they wanted and nothing on God's earth would stop them!  Some parts of the Book of Revelations are quite scary!

[vamo48]

Don't worry, it's not a prophecy, just a very old horror story!

[5129frederick]

Hope you're right!    Brings a new meaning to the term "Yellow Peril!"

[bankhaunter]

Any kind of forecasting the future not based on reason is pure piffle. 

With a lot of stuff like tarot cards, people see what they want to see and belief of their 'accuracy' is backed up by confirmation bias.

Believers recognise events which fit and ignore anything which doesn't.

[bankhaunter]

They'd just walk across whatever land they wanted and nothing on God's earth would stop them! 

Nothing would indeed stop them. Nothing in the way of food, an army marches on it's stomach.