○ Decisions: Tarot readings aren’t meant to answer yes or no questions, they are supposed to act as a guide for your own decision-making [1]. This is fine, as long as one is comfortable with the randomness of cards opposed to common sense and logic.
○ Flux: The purported reason for different spreads of cards being drawn to the same question is the fluctuations of a yet undetermined future [2]. Thus, tarot cannot make any practical predictions. This brings us to the…
○ Future: The future is just as determined as the past, and all coming decisions, based on one’s own choice due to a specific layout of cards or cause and effect, will still play out in a determined fashion.
○ Guidance: It’s more common for tarot readers to just supply one with awareness of the possibilities in one’s life, rather than exact visions of the future [3], i.e. a conversation.
○ Psychometry: Meaning, the ability to sense others’ mental imprints on objects [4]. Tarot cards are pieces of layered pasteboard, not a conduit to a Laplace Demon [5] or a capacitor for “Energy”.
○ Experiment: As with basically all paranormal experiments, tarot cards haven’t yet proven their professed effects. This tends to happen because of bad methodology or psychological explanations, such as cold reading or the Barnum effect [6].
○ Vagueness: It’s no surprise that, like astrology, tarot readings yield universally applicable answers.
○ Experience: My mother has been reading tarot cards during the majority of her life. So, I conducted a mini-experiment of my own. I asked her to lay down two different kinds of tarot cards, both answering the same generic question; How will my life look during the next six months? (aug-jan, 2014-2015). So far, the answers could be – unsurprisingly – applied to many (or none) of the events during this time. Since one specific tarot card can have multiple meanings in relation with other cards, there is way too much room for subjective (mis)interpretation for this little experiment to hold any truth. Then again, this is my personal anecdote, so you’re (hopefully) doing right to be skeptical.
important to find common ground and assure it’s stability or that it alters according to the environment one currently inhabits with other similar organisms e.g. humans. Every human would without hesitation agree that red is red, fire hurts and that we die without air. And how do we know this?
Believer Beware 