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(CNNGo)   Tarot reader admits that her profession has nothing to do with being psychic. But you already knew that   (cnngo.com) divider line 58
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2011-03-03 03:15:02 PM
Epossumondas: I'll just stick to reading entrails.


I've found that the problem with this is that the message always ends with "see next cow for rest of message...".
 
2011-03-03 03:19:54 PM
NkThrasher: Oznog: (gasp) the DEATH card?

"oh no, no... that's good" (next card) "AH! OH NOOOOO! (gasp) THE FLUFFY BUNNY!"

I believe it was "Happy Squirrel", but good reference none the less.


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Ah, that's why my GIS failed. Thanx.

Hey, check it out- Tarot card makers actually ADDED a Happy Squirrel card to their decks!

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2011-03-03 03:27:44 PM
HailRobonia: "Jungian" is only barely more credible than "psychic".

Jungian psychology with tarot cards? That can only mean one thing:

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2011-03-03 04:56:30 PM
I do Tarot reads myself. Its awesome and not what most people would think. It wont divine the future, I will allow you to think about something in another way.

The way that I do it is simple. I ask the client thinks of a question and make sure not to tell me. Telling him that most of the time I can deduct from the cards themselves what was the question.

Then I start the tarot read, giving multiple meaning to all the cards until I get a response from the client. I check for subtle clues like twitching, and it is very close to poker, which in fact im pretty good at. Then I start the narrative, which makes sense to the client without trying to predict the future.

Sometimes that is the reason why the cust is asking you those questions. Will I get some money someday? I would answer: yes but not in the way you are expecting, and probably not a small but not a large amount. For all I know I could be predicting that hes going to get his regular paycheck next week.

However there is these moments, these unexplainable moments of pure coincedence like the one time a 16 year old girl who was asking if she would have any boyfriend any day, and all the cards pulled were for male cards. That was awesome and a bit scary. I knew what she would ask, but to see it happen like that was a bit spooky.

Or that one time the guy looks at me with almost water in his eyes when I told him: the answer is YES. YES you will have a kid, and YES its going to be a little boy. His GF at the time wasnt pregnant, and the relashionship was shaky and he was scared he would lose her.

So yes, Tarot can be scary or spooky sometimes but most of it is simply just simple psychology and reading human posture or emotions.

/Dont lie to me when Im reading you, cause I know what you asked.
//Once a guy did that and ran away when I told him: yes you will get caught for what you did. They will find you and youll go to jail.
/// The guy had robbed a guy at gunpoint and got arrested 3 weeks later.
 
2011-03-03 05:12:44 PM
Yes, I already knew that. :O They're great random-number generators or useful to think about something from a different perspective, but I don't find anything magical about them.
 
2011-03-03 06:23:03 PM
I do my fortune tellin' the old fashioned way: good ole' reliable necromancy. Now where did I put my shovel?
 
2011-03-03 06:35:38 PM
Rufus Lee King: r0cj07p: I do my fortune tellin' the old fashioned way: good ole' reliable necromancy. Now where did I put my shovel?

I hear ya. I generally just use this, though. It's a lot less fuss and bother.


Yeah, but my predictions are always.....DEAD ON! AHHH HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAA!
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2011-03-03 07:04:15 PM
ohdoublereally: Lollipop165: ohdoublereally

But there is this magic thing call "Karma" which magically tracks things we do and figures out if they're wrong or not and punishes you every so often if you do something bad. People are pretty comfortable mentioning this magical unscientific Karma which works sporadically at best, but Tarot, Astrology? Fake.

Nothing "magic" about karma. At least, not the way I see it. If you are a jerk, at some point in your life chances are people will realize it and pull away from you. If you nice, lots of people will be your friend. If you happen to be very charitable, people will be more likely to help you in your time of need. If you are selfish, people won't be as likely. Etc, etc, etc.

Sorry but that's just normal human behavior.


Now you're getting it. Science has mapped out some areas of "magic" and given them new names.

Dream interpretation, Yungian therapy, and so forth rely on understanding how our minds handle information and build narratives and analogies, and how they group related items -- that's why archetypes are useful -- and that's basically what Tarot can offer. Science is more systematic about it, increasing probability of learning something new, but someone who's been reading cards for strangers for 30 years probably has a pretty good amount of understanding about people.

Most "magic" can be explained adequately by science. Psychics are very good at reading nonverbal cues, most likely subconsciously, or may be very good at sensing probabilities. Other stuff is handled by the placebo effect or a better understanding of the physical world and the human physiology. More and more science shows us how our beliefs and our brains shape our ability to process what our senses tell us.

In a practical sense, they're all tools to understanding, and they're not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Magic and faith live on the borderlands of what we've learned about how the world works. They live in the gray space between the known and understood, and the merely suspected or longed for. For some, they may overlap more than they do for others, but I think setting them against each other is a false approach. They're not intrinsically opposed -- that all comes from people who want the world to be simpler and easier to grasp.
 
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