To ask what you think of crystals, stones and tarot readings?

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Had my cards read today, very interesting and strangely relevant.

Bunkum.

Utter BS

Science suggests that alleged healing by crystals and stones is caused by the placebo effect. It works because we believe it will work - so positive thinking.

Cartomancy seems to me to be about how cards are chosen to be interpreted by the reader. There are a variety of meanings for each card and for where the cards appear in the spread. I think the reader helps the person using the cards to come to the answer they unconsciously want or what the reader thinks they need but need a push to head in that direction.

Often the person asking for the reading is almost giving the answer themselves. I've seen two very similar spreads be interpreted in two very different ways and each person was happy with the readings they were given.

I used to do this a lot when I was pregnant. Mostly for a friend of my mother's who was having relationship troubles.

But every time I did it for myself, I got the pregnancy rune stone. Every single time.

I believe in them all, but would read my own tarot cards as going through another person is asking for their interpretation.
I have a beautiful set I purchased and have them always out in the lounge. Guests enjoy picking a card or two out for themselves too

Complete bollocks but some people are into it.

I believe it's a load of Bollox because it can't possibly be true.

But when I do card readings the cards are alway accurate. Ie bad money cards, someone going to prison, someone passing an exam, someone winning a competition.

I've also had premonitions in that I know things about people when I first meet them.

Lulu you're like me. I trust myself. I wouldn't trust another fraud.

It’s all bollocks but no harm having fun with it, and I can even see how it might help in a sort of aid to meditation / mindfulness way.

As long as people don’t hawk it in place of actual medicine / counselling etc or use it to prey on and manipulate vulnerable people, I don’t really care about it.

Woo bollocks.
But I do have some crystals. They "ground" me .

Lulu do you feel that sort of knot down low in your tummy (belly button direction) when you read them?

FFS I'm deluding myself here that I'm psychic. Will someone get me a gin please?!!!

Utter garbage - but then some people are gullible and some people exploit that.

It's utter nonsense. Either fraud or a wish to feel special.

Yet people believe in a story about a dude who turned water into wine!

Haha. Apparently a fella called Jesus existed. A friend of mine, his dad was a historian, who converted to Catholicism on the back of whatever he found.
I'm a complete heathen. And if someone told me they'd read me my cards, I'd tell them to go and shite. I don't believe in it.
But strangely, I know what I can read. Makes no sense.

Charlatan Central.

People read into them exactly what they want to read.

It's called confirmation bias

I work in a manor house that's hundreds of years old and you wouldn't believe the amount of people who ask me if it's haunted.

When I say no, they actually try to persuade me that it is, despite the fact they've never even been there

It’s bollocks. But if you’re aware of that and don’t take it to heart, it can be fun in a silly kind of way. And if you have a particular problem that you share with the reader, it can be quite useful purely to have someone you don’t know assess the situation.

I had a reading on holiday because I wanted to see how much they could cold read from me. The reader actually gave me a good piece of advice. Nothing to do with any gifts, just a common-sense suggestion that I hadn’t thought of yet (dressed up as something spiritual!)

Cards and stones I have no interest in. I think they're a charlatans game.
Crystals, I do like; it may be the placebo effect, I don't know. I have a small collection and they work for me and 2 dc (5&2) they calm them well when needs be! Totally different from cards and stones; crystals are naturally formed over millennia and maybe there is more to be said about things we know less about...

I don't see anything. It's the person who turns the stones over. But while they're doing that, I feel energy being sucked out of me. I didn't read the runes, I read the book that told me what they meant lol. Pure and utter bunkum I'm sure.

At the same time, how can you explain me turning over the rune stone for pregnancy maybe ten nights? I doubted it so much, I used to close my eyes, in case it was a shape I was picking up. Nope. Every time, it was the pregnancy one I picked up.

Also a bit woo, was that same lady had 6 children and her 5th had died (tragically, fell off his motorbike). So they used to do the dangling a wedding ring over my pregnant belly.

The ring, for this woman would go girl, boy, girl boy, then literally stop dead when it came to the fifth. When she'd go to the 6th, it would go boy again. Meh!
I kind of half believe and half think it's a load of shite. It's fascinating though.

And in case that doesn't make sense, she had 2 girls and 4 boys. In the order the ring predicted.
God almighty, I need to find me a psychiatric hospital lol. Ah no, I generally think there is some woo shit. I don't know why I happen to have it, as if you were sending woo to anyone, I would be the last one you'd choose haha.
But here I am.

WorraLiberty you need to get Derek Acorah round - he's doing the Brookside in Romford in May which is not a million miles away . I;m sure if you give him cake and tea he'll tell you that it is indeed haunted .

Most Haunted in fact.

I had my palm read years ago and though I scoffed at the time , it was accurate. I'm not telling because there are lots of nay sayers ( nothing to do with money ,, but there were babies involved )

Don't know anything about crystals. Have never encountered rune stones. I don't have any tarot cards but I do readings using playing cards. Have done so for years. Have read for several people. I also have post cognition of events which I had no prior knowledge of, which have later been verified. Not terribly useful, and upsetting to me because in every situation it was about the death of someone. I'm also clairaudient, unfortunately. I don't find much joy in any of it but it's entertained a few friends! I don't take it seriously, and wouldn't try to make a living with it.

Really effective

at extracting money from gullible peope.

Utter fucking nonsense perpetuated by fraudsters who prey on the weak minded and the vulnerable. Anyone who pays a moment's attention to it is soft in the head.