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Tarot help - any experts?

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drLu · 21/05/2014 17:47

Not sure if I have posted in the right place but here goes....

I got a pack of cards years ago and a really good book. I would often ask questions and the cards would come up with pretty accurate readings. Even if I didn't want them to be right they later proved to be.

Anyway, I still use them many years later. Most recently to ask if our horrid, old abusive neighbours will be moving. (They are retired and hate living next to a family. This is the third spring they have put house on market). Everytime I ask if they will move this year I get The page of cups. I just can't work out the meaning.

Any help?

OP posts:

snoofle · 26/05/2014 21:51

I care far far far far far more for the spiritual health of a person, even a stranger, than I ever could for whatever words are going to get thrown at me.

The two do not begin to compare.

beatingwings · 26/05/2014 21:52

snoofle, what could happen? Seriously.

TalisaMaegyr · 26/05/2014 21:53

Jolly good.

expatinscotland · 26/05/2014 21:55

Oh, FGS! I am an adult of sound mind and faculties and a stranger on the net. Give over with the Hollywood BS.

It's a tool! I use meditation and chant, too.

Woo.....

LadySybilLikesCake · 26/05/2014 21:56

You do tarot... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU

headinhands · 26/05/2014 21:58

Do the NHS routinely screen spiritual health? Only I've not been called up for that service? Do they have a mobile clinic set up outside the local Morrisons, like they do the breast clinic?

expatinscotland · 26/05/2014 21:58

I don't go to spiritualist things or psychics, but I know people who do. Not my business. I can't say I have ever felt the need to scold them.

I have other mates who are Christians. It seems pointless to me, but again, they are adults.

snoofle · 26/05/2014 22:02

It is up to you what you do expat.
I have done my job in warning you.

beatingwings · 26/05/2014 22:04

Warning of what exactly? Waving the finger of doom?

LadySybilLikesCake · 26/05/2014 22:04

My friends are from all sorts of faiths. A druid, pagans, muslims, hindu's, christians. It doesn't really matter to me, I'd never criticise their believes though. Out of all of them, it's the christians who like to tell other people how to live and try to convert me. Strange that.

snoofle · 26/05/2014 22:05

It is a game that is paying with the devil.

Name any bad thing and he will have done it at one time or another.
He could obviously mess about with a person's physical health, mental health, and to someone else you love and care about.

beatingwings · 26/05/2014 22:06

Ah- the devil. A religious invention.

snoofle · 26/05/2014 22:07

It is nothing to do with critisism.
I would love to just tell you to get on with it, or better still, not post at all.

It is a warning.

If you saw someone standing far to close to a cliff, you would warn them. Woudnt you?

LadySybilLikesCake · 26/05/2014 22:08

The devil?

Told you. Tarot readers will be called witches and burned next.

snoofle · 26/05/2014 22:08

I have done my job.

That is all I have to do.

I would absolutely love not to care.

LadySybilLikesCake · 26/05/2014 22:09

Blessings to you, snoofle, but you need to keep away from the wine, chuck.

headinhands · 26/05/2014 22:10

How did the devil get his grubby mitts on us before the invention of tarot cards? He must have spent thousands of years frustrated by the lack of the occult poor bastard.

snoofle · 26/05/2014 22:11

1 final go

If one of you writes a thread in the future about some woe or other, would you want a warning of troubles ahead and what not to do[tarot]?

Best wishes to you all.

DioneTheDiabolist · 26/05/2014 22:12

Head, I find your posts regarding belief and fact very interesting. And if you don't mind, can I ask you a few questions?*

When you believed in god, did you think that belief warranted fact status for god's existence?
When I say "I believe in god", do you think that I am saying that you are wrong because you don't believe?

It has been pointed out to me that my style of posting can be construed as cold and combative. I have tried to address this and can assure you that this post is not meant to be either. I would just like to understand.

LadySybilLikesCake · 26/05/2014 22:12

I can't find mine. Do you think he's taken them? The bastard!

beatingwings · 26/05/2014 22:12

snoofle- scare yourself all you like with your own bogey men, but don't expect others to see things in the same light.

DioneTheDiabolist · 26/05/2014 22:19

Expat, if you are interested in Tarot, you might find Jungian Tarot interesting. It's more about archetypes and collective unconscious than an afterlife/divine plane. Be sure to keep dated notes so you can look back and judge for yourself if there was any truth/help in it.

I'd love to hear how you get on.

expatinscotland · 26/05/2014 22:24

Thanks, all. I had to do the washing up before having a little nightcap and breaking out the cards.

I don't believe in the devil anymore than I believe in god(s).

In fact, I believe that after you die, you regenerate the soil. And that is it.

We are wanting to make a move, to a different area, and need to star exploring a course of action to get there.

Tarot is a tool I might find useful in this, in the same way as posting threads on MN.

thegreenheartofmanyroundabouts · 27/05/2014 07:26

From what I can work out talking to people who use or have used tarot there are many ways of using it which means that the OP asking for one way of reading one card won't really find an answer. As well as lots of ways of reading the cards there are differences in intent. A lot of people seem to be using them to sort their thoughts and focus rather than to read the future. I use prayer and spreadsheets with pros and cons of courses of action, which is not as pretty as tarot, but I suspect is a similar approach.

A few years ago I had a long conversation with a psychic at a local psychic fair about how she used her cards and for her this was an aid to mediumship. She had a spirit guide and he spoke to her through the tarot cards. Other readers were less specific about how the cards can tell the future. In Christianity there are prescriptions on contacting the dead and attempting to divine the future and that is why Christians can get very twitchy about tarot cards. Maybe it is the same for Muslims.

What I do hear from people who have used tarot is that it can become addictive so that they can't go out of the house in the morning before consulting the cards. I've also had experience of people who feel a spiritual malaise as a result of going to see psychics and tarot card readers. There seems to be a darker side to card reading which I suspect the vast majority of people doing home readings won't encounter but it doesn't mean it isn't there. There is a darker side to many things so tarot is unlikely to be exempt.

headinhands · 27/05/2014 11:58

When I was a Christian I thought the god of the bible was real. I thought he actually existed. If someone had asked me if god was real I would have said I thought so. Wouldn't that mean I thought it was a fact? Do you believe in things you don't actually think are real and exists ie not facts?

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