Tarot Reading

[EvianBaby]

On Friday I'm going to have a tarot card reading.

I know there are lots of people who will think it's a load of tosh but what did those of you who have been to a tarot reading think? I'm fairly open minded about it, I don't believe either way currently. I'm fully expecting not to really get anything from it, just a bit of fun at an event I'm going to.

[albaqwerty]

Haven't been to one, but have had my palm read. Spookily came true.

Enjoy and let us know what you thought please x

[boxtops]

I don't like this sort of thing.

[EvianBaby]

Will do Alba.

Why Boxtops?

[Mamyalynne]

Tarot is simply interpretation and I am sure you will enjoy it, a relative who does it for a living says I read every bit as well as she does.

[grasscarp]

I can tell you a story about Tarot cards. Forty years ago a woman's magazine had cut out tarot cards, so my mum cut them out. We then had them laid on the table and the first two cards picked out were a streak of lightning and a coffin, which meant a sudden death. Just then the phone rang and it was my brother to say that his partner had collapsed and died. My mother swept up the tarot cards and threw them on the fire. As a result, I personally would not have anything to do with tarot cards ever again.

[craft1948]

I went with a friend a few years ago..............what he told her was eerily correct, but what he forecast for me was absolute rubbish.

[boxtops]

I just don't like this sort of thing, evian - predictions and fortune-telling are best left well alone, IMO.

[EvianBaby]

Bugger, boss back. Better do some work. Didn't see that coming! ;)

Will check back on here and respond a bit later.

[albaqwerty]

I do not do, and will not, entertain oiuja boards.

Each to their own, and if you treat is as a night out then it can be fun.

[Old_Geezer]

Well coincidences do happen every now & again grasscarp.

The ambience (for want of a better word) of this sort of stuff is great. All mysterious and bordering of gothic and stuff; but as for whether it delivers.... Well, even if you believe in it just being a tool for the mind to use and interpret, it seems a rather blunt tool to come up with anything particularly specific.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh Ouija is great. Gives you something to think about when told something you didn't know and which turns out to be true. Not been to one of those sessions for years.

[Old_Geezer]

Had my palm red once. (Teacher said it hurt him more than it did me.)

[EvianBaby]

Some interesting little tales. Sort of makes me more keen to go. I'm just intrigued as to how it works and what will be said as I've never been to anything like this before.

It's just some lady at a school craft fair so its not an evening of this sort of thing, just a side line and I thought I'd give her 15 minutes of my time. I'm quite looking forward to it, but will remain non-expectant and just see what happens.

[cathfromsaron]

my friend is a complete white witch with them and i would say to go along with a question to have answered ...

[Seadragon]

I've had afew tarot readings and none of them have really come true. I think you have to be careful what someone says because it just sticks in the mind and it could very well be false.

[NOX]

I use Tarot and it's a very beneficial tool if used correctly, great for meditations and also for any sort of applied energy work. As for 'telling the future'- the future always remains mutable whatever cards or anything else says, what they do do is give a suggestion of direction and probability which needs careful interpretation. As long as you see them in a very broad way things are fine, otherwise you end up with ideas like Grasscarp's Mum who thought (I'm assuming) The Tower? and Death? ( from the description) cards meant a sudden death where that is not the meaning at all necessarily and certainly the cards could not have made anything happen. Treat them with thought and they are really wonderful for self enlightenment and progression, treat them as a set in stone literal message and they'll scare the life out of you at some point- which is not their intended purpose at all.

[EvianBaby]

Thanks for the answers. I'll try and remember the advice given about it not being specific answers/predictions and take things quite broadly.

Really quite looking forward to it now.

[rowanwitch]

I'm with NOX they can be a wonderful way of channelling your unconscious in a way that helps you clarify your thoughts, they can also warn of potential problems... keep an open mind

[EvianBaby]

Will do Rowan.

What got removed? I don't remember seeing anything bad...