Mystical Angels

When I read Tarot cards for myself, do they simply reflect how I am feeling?

For example, if I ask the cards a question, will they just reflect my feelings? Does this mean that they are not so much a tool for looking into the future, but mostly to help you understand your own thoughts more? I'm quite surprised that you write that origen! I thought that you were a believer in the soul and God, is it just Tarot cards themselves that don't hold any meaning for you?

Public Comments

1. All depends on how you interpret each card and what you are concentrating on at the time. Tarot is a good way of helping you to relax and concentrate on issues in your life. It won't provide solutions, but may be beneficial in guiding you.
2. Tarot cards don't mean diddly.
3. I heard that if you want to know one question and they answer something complely different its because there is something that you just needed to know about. Each one is read in a diffreent way and each person teaches to read the cards in a different way.
4. true, better other people read the tarot cards for you. if read something not fits to your thoughts, and the reading is not good for you, you will have mix emotions, so better let others do the reading for you. tarot cards are being use during ancient times, there was another card, the ancient cards with symbols of moon, half moon, full moon, stars, glittering stars, swords also, human images, arrows, and etc. if the reader of cards are efficient in translating and interpreting the meaning it is worth something, and the truth reveals and tell your past and present status.
5. "Does this mean that they are not so much a tool for looking into the future, but mostly to help you understand your own thoughts more?" Both! The cards will show you possibilities that you may follow into the future as well as give you insight into influences from yourself and others. The problem with reading for yourself, especially in areas that are highly emotional, is that you may interpret the reading as you wish to see it and not necessarily with the detachment you would need to see all possibilities. You yourself will always make the choices on how you will proceed into your future, nothing is written in stone. Tarot can be a guidepost to your journey forward.
6. the cards will tell you things, about yourself, others, questions and the future itself BUT it all depends on the interpretation itsefl. But you must need to work on your Psychic/intuition in order to understand it
7. No, tarot cards do tell the future. There are certain positions that the cards land in that may reflect how you feel though. The self position would reflect present feelings. The challenges position could as well. If your back is up against the wall about something and the card that lands in the challenges position talks about that, then it is an accurate reading. It depends on the type of layout you are doing, as to how many times your inner feelings might come up. The way to tell that it's not just you putting your expectations/energies into the cards is to look at the 'past' position and see what it tells you about that.
8. no tarot cards do not tell the past, present or the future. they are a tool satan uses to entice you into things that are dangerous. the cards themselves are just that, cards, pieces of card with pictures and writing on them . they cannot tell you anything, but by looking to them to tell you things forbidden by God, you are opening yourself up to things that don't want the best for you, but that actually want to harm you. tarot cards are of the occult, which is of the devil. and he is a liar and the father of lies. he seeks your downfall, he seeks to destroy you. if you want to find answers, go straight to God. He is the only one who knows all.
9. A lot of people maintain the belief that reading Tarot for yourself isn't going to be effective, although I can't find any logic in that at all. Tarot is a tool for divination, and we perform readings to gain insight on a particular problem that we're having in our lives. There's no reason that you shouldn't be able to perform a reading on yourself and gain accurate results - I do it often, as I'm sure others do as well. There are a great number of books out there involved with Tarot contemplation rituals and meditation techniques, (11 Lessons in High Magick by Craig has a whole chapter devoted to it) which aim to connect you with your cards on a much deeper level of understanding. Through practice, you learn to reign in your emotions during a self-reading and not let it interfere with the outcome, mostly by learning how to balance intuition with objection. In many spreads, there is often an 'outcome' or 'future' position, and I think a lot of people take this much more literally then they should. The outcome presented in the spread is the prediction of what will happen if the situation doesn't change. The spread is a map, and by reading the cards, contemplating their positions and interpreting them - you are being given options that you might not even realize. For example; Say I lost my job, and did a spread to get some insight on where to go next, and I drew the Five of Cups in a position representing the base of my problem. The card shows grief, a loss of some sort - and that might be true. I would be feeling pretty crappy about the loss of my job. But what is also represented on the cards is an unseen choice (more often than not, there are some shiny new cups behind the grieving man, hence where I draw that conclusion) So, the Tarots are telling me I may be overlooking something, and throughout the spread will probably make clear what exactly it is. The cards won't flat out tell me my future, but it offers guidance and opens up new suggestions that I might not have seen before hand. So to restate; it's entirely possible to get an accurate reading on yourself, it's just a matter of trust, practice and being able to remove yourself from your main emotions and really concentrate on searching out those solutions.
10. I think it taps into your subconscious.
11. I would say that what you read in the cards does indeed reflect your feelings. As such, I can accept that tarot cards can have a real meditative application. Knowledge of the future is a different matter. At the end of the day, tarot is a pack of playing cards. They were created in the mid 15th century by adding a fifth suit of picture cards to the existing standard pack of Latin suited playing cards. The extra suit took as its theme a Christian triumph procession, hence their original name, trionfi, meaning triumphs and from which we get our word trump. It was the invention of tarot that marked the introduction of trumps into card games. For 350 years the cards were used for nothing but card games - games that are still played throughout continental Europe. At the end of the 18th century, some French occultists began to write some occult myths and began the practice of fortune telling with them. Occultists introduced the cards to the English speaking world towards the end of the 19th century and here they were subject to major re-design to better reflect the occult beliefs of those who used them. As such, the modern designs will clearly reflect a range of spiritual and magical beliefs. However, there is no occult origin to the cards and so fortune telling with them is no different in kind to using tea leaves or dominoes. This alone makes them suspect but then the idea of future knowledge encounters many of the same logical problems and paradoxes that lead us to reject time-travel. It simply doesn't make sense. So, if the cards are not magical and revealing the future, then what you read there is what you are reading into the cards, perhaps - and significantly - unconsciously. So if you want to use them to examine your own feelings, then this might be worth while.
12. I feel the same way about when I read for myself. I don't know anyone that can read for me so it's frustrating at time.