Do you believe in tarot cards? How can anything like that possibly be work?

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Do you believe in tarot cards? How can anything like that possibly be work?
Yes they can work if they are in the right hands. It is a tool to help the person giving the reading guidance to their own intuition.
Reply:No! and they don't!
Reply:It's a sham. A deck of cards cannot predict or determine events.
Reply:tarot cards do not dictate the future. they are a tool to help a person see the big picture - what may come to pass - and what he or she needs to do to avoid problems and find the outcome they wish.





they are not as much a divination tool as they are a meditative tool.





if you don't understand that, i can't help you.
Reply:Having used the tarot cards as a tool for over 20 years I have developed a theory about HOW they work that does not simply depend on saying that is a "spiritual" thing or that is "psychology" or "a con-job".





If you accept that events at the quantum level can have effects on the visible world, then the act of shuffling the deck establishes a connection at the quantum level which is what the reader then uses to connect to the questioner. This is also the reason that the more successful readers can use the Tarot for advice on the more PROBABLE courses of events based on what things are CURRENTLY and is also the reason that a person getting a reading can get an entirely different result afterwords as their position (on the quantum level) in space-time has dramatically changed.
Reply:yes. they simply pick up the energy of the person shuffeling them, and then tell that person a story of things that may come to pass.





they work the same way that prayer works.
Reply:the cards simply act as a tool to focus on ... it is our own intuition that does the work


like cloud reading .. bet you have done that before


well like clouds , you just say what you see ... but then you apply it to whoever you are reading
Reply:Believe in God,and for myself I had the card read to me on time and it came true. It is up to you to believe in it or not to.
Reply:Tarot gives you a point of focus. It allows a view of your situation that you might otherwise of missed. It's not magic. It's very good counseling. Sometimes it can create a suggestion of what the way ahead could be, if you have a skilled reader.





Remember, the tarot is only suggesting one possible outcome when you look to it for divination. There are many possible solutions. It merely suggests a propitious one.





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Reply:Probably has about as much chance as prayers,but I've never seen that work either. So I doubt the Tarot cards work.





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Reply:Not sure if they do but some people seem able to see what happened in past. This interests me as I don't think that when you die your being stays on earth.
Reply:Are you asking "How can they work?" or "How can they BE work?"





Just in case, I'll answer both.





Tarot cards--and most other forms of divination--don't tell you anything you don't already know. That being said, sometimes it's easier to admit something you didn't want to face, or see something that has been swimming about in your head, when someone else says it out loud. That's why most people I know don't read for themselves--too easy to see what you WANT to see--and why most of us have the questioner shuffle the cards before laying them out (to impress their own energies on the cards.) There's actually some quantum theory that explains HOW it works, but I don't have a link and won't try to quote them here.





As for how it can BE work--well, it's a mental exercise, and it can be as fatiguing as any other. Akin to proof-reading, or anything else that requires concentration and attention to detail.
Reply:How can a book predict the future any better than a deck of cards?
Reply:since everything is interconnected, you can use almost anything like that to learn things about yourself and the universe. yes it works, don't knock it until you try it.
Reply:There are many things in our universe we do not understand. I don't understand how gravity works. Does this mean that it doesn't?





The best way to answer a question like this is to educate yourself about it %26amp; be a seeker, not an asker.





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Reply:Yes, I do believe in Tarot cards.


Others have already provided excellent answers and reference links.


The cards are merely a tool to get in touch with one's inner guide, and for me are really more for meditation than divination. I don't believe most people read cards to "tell the future", but rather to enlighten and get in touch with their unconscious. In fact I think that most readings reflect the past and illuminate the present while presenting choices for possible outcomes to problems or situations.
Reply:Tarot cards are strictly for the gullible. Precisely as you ask: "how can anything like that possibly be work?"
Reply:NO;and they dont
Reply:if done the right way they do work, they have helped me before. how they are supposed to work is an angle or spirit will arrange the cards in the order of which you are supposed to get them to show you what you need to know. now no normal playing cards wont tell you the future while you are playing a game of cards. with the right help you can tap into you past, present and future.
Reply:Introspection....





Using scrabble letters or clouds work the same way.