Mystical Angels - do you think tarot cards work? weird experience..?

do you think tarot cards work? weird experience..?

we convinced my grandad who doesnt believe in anything magical or anything like that whatsoever to have a reading at some shop we went into, (he doesnt even like harry potter! :O). the woman drew a card for him, but it was completely blank - nothing on it, and she never even knew there was a blank card in pack. he didnt believe, the card showed up with nothing... hmm well now i believe in tarot cards - not the live by them daily and everything they say is true but the odd reading might be right :) what do you think? cheeerss

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I think it's a bunch of superstitious cr*p. It's your money anyway.
Nope tarot cards are made for scams. If you pay someone to tell you future you are getting scammed. That's all there is to it.
okaaay...so what does a blank card mean?
Blank card = now you believe? I'm a bit confused how that made you believe
I think that's nonsense.
If one is TRULY honest with themselves, there is NOTHING that any form of divination can tell you that you don't already know!
Depends on whether you subconsciously believe it to be true or if your spirit guides work that way.... If your guides work that way, then yes it will Peace
There is a spiritual power behind tarot cards but it is a familiar spirit, which is a demon. Be careful playing with them. You may get more than what you bargained for. Quit playing with them. You're playing with a demon. That's who is communicating with you through these cards. I have seen the spirit. It looks like an old witch. You don't want to be talking to an old witch, do you. Even if she answers your questions, it ain't cool. I threw my tarot cards away, even though she pestered me not to. I got with Jesus. He's got more answers and He's prettier.
I had a tarot card reading once and it was exactly as I expected. A vague reading that could have applied to anyone. One thing that was funny was when she said I was going to have a one night stand soon and she knew that wasn't something I was into. I'm very into one night stands and it never happened!
yeah they work, but they work by demonic power and if you use them you will give demons the permission to oppress you.
If you believe in it - that's your own responsibility. However, being a practical man, as I am...I would only believe it, if each and every time I got a reading, the same sequence of cards would come out...even after shuffling. So, no - it's all chance, it's all up to your interpretation, it's all up to the person reading your body language and in your responses. I don't believe it, not even the odd reading.
I know a few tricks on tarot, so I know it is not really true. However, you may believe what you want. If tarot has in fact influenced your life, I will not stop you from believing it.
I think it depends on the person reading them. Tarot cards themselves aren't magical. They're supposed to act as a focus for whoever's reading them. The reader 'draws' the correct card to the top of the deck. The tarot cards act as starting point for the reader to work off of.
Sure they work, but in what way? ---------------------- Magic/Sorcery Leviticus 19: 26 "YOU must eat nothing along with blood. YOU must not look for omens, and YOU must not practice magic". Deuteronomy 18: 9 - 13 There should not be found in you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, anyone who employs divination, a practicer of magic or anyone who looks for omens or a sorcerer, or one who binds others with a spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of the dead. For everybody doing these things is something detestable to God, and on account of these detestable things God your God is driving them away from before you. You should prove yourself faultless with God your God. Acts 18: 18 - 19 And many of those who had become believers would come and confess and report their practices openly. Indeed, quite a number of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them up before everybody. And they calculated together the prices of them and found them worth fifty thousand pieces of silver. ----------------------- Hope this has been enlightening.
Personally, I think it's primarily self-fulfilling prophecy. If you have a reading done and it says that your current relationship is going to crumble, you will worry about it to the extent that it will crumble. And there aren't any blank tarot cards, she might have put one in the pack in order to freak out a customer. And my friend is really into tarot cards and has done multiple readings on me, just for fun, I don't believe in it at all, and I've gotten a reading that did make sense/come true, bu I'd already decided my course prior to the reading, the reading merely reaffirmed it. Tarot readings make you look at the different possibilities for action, as they give the final result, it makes it more likely that you will take that course of action because you feel that there is some sort of divine voice telling you to do so. It really gets into the argument of Fate vs. Free will, and personally I think that yes, there is fate, but fate is nature, fate is limitation, and fate is freedom. Read Emerson's Fate. (It doesn't exactly relate to this argument, but I would recommend it to anybody and everybody).
there is a spirit behind the cards, but it's a demon. my friend's grandma got her cards read, and it said her third child, my friend's mom, would die when she was three. when she was three, she got a fatal illness. my friend's grandma prayed over her, and she lived. be careful with those cards
Tarot cards were originally invented for cards games that required an extra suit, they weren't used for divination until the middle to late 19th century and then only in cultures where those particular games had never caught on so that they seemed exotic. While I do believe in the validity of divination in some cases there are a lot more frauds and want-to-bes than anything else. Rule of thumb, people in shops are doing it for the money, in most cases they're entertainers as much as anything else and you shouldn't take them too seriously.
Ha! In my deck I have a blank card. All I can say is that the cards pick up on the reader. If the reader doesn't believe the cards are not going to go out of their way to show them anything. So I think that the cards just picked up on your granddad and said nothing to him.
What if your grandfather drew something else, such as the Hermit? What would your interpretation be then, given his skepticism? I don't believe in fortune telling. If one can tell the future, then it's predetermined and what is the point of finding out about the future if you can't change it? If you *can* change the future, then how can the cards predict something that is in flux? For me Tarot is a combination of the Rorschach test and archetypal art. The querent (that would be you) reads into them meaning, but the meaning is evoked from you by the archetypal images on the cards. A reader helps you access your own inner knowledge. I think because of their use as a psychological or contemplative tool, Tarot cards can help shed light on a current situation or on yourself, but the only "magic" in the cards is the magic that you yourself create. There is no magic in the cards themselves. On other words, what Watcher said, except with a lot more words. :D