Mystical Angels

Ouija boards and Tarot Cards?

ok so here's the deal: my boyfriend told me a really freaky story about his friend and how he used a ouija board and the dam thing haunted him, he threw it out, and he found it a week later in his closet, he burnt it and again it was in his closet. my bf told me that the thing wouldn't ease up on horrible stuff happening to him unless he kept using it... well the story alone scared the crap out of me and so in my own will i'll never ever use one. but my question is: are tarot cards like ouija boards? do they do the same freaky stuff like horror stories i've read (on here and heard about)? i just want to use tarot cards to ask questions about my day to day life and see if i'm going along ok... i'm also looking to the whole karma thing... what can you tell me about tarot cards? and are they like the ouija boards?

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1. i have a Ouija board and i was using by my self and i was trying to get it to work i was there for roughly half an hour and then suddenly it started to move but because it was home made i was using a glass well the glass got violent and started to move by it self later that night i kept hearing a bang down stares i am 16 and i was shitting my self i woke my dad up last night saying there was someone down there we both went down and the door to my parrot cage was swinging open and shut by it self and my parrot was dead ...........................................edit.................... to start with i was not taking it serious because during the day my mate was over and we played with it we could not get it to work so when he went later i played with it my self not taking it seriously and it started to move. you may find this a lie but now i can sometime's here someone whispering in my ear when i am in my bedroom and i smell this weird smell and a cold breeze in my bedroom
2. Well, tarot cards began life as a pack of playing cards... They were created in the mid 15th century Italy for the Milanese court. They consist of two parts: a standard pack of Latin suited playing cards and a fifth suit of picture cards. These extra cards took as their theme a triumph procession, hence their early name of trionfi, meaning triumphs, and from which we get our word trump. It was the invention of tarot that marked the invention of trumps in card games. For their first 350 years they were only used for games, however, at the end of the 18th century, a Parisian occultists, Antoine Court de Gebelin took up the cards and published his theory that they came from Ancient Egypt. He also published the first account of using the cards for divination. For about 100 years, these ideas remained unique to France but at the end of the 19th century, some British occultists began to translante French texts and import the cards to the English speaking world. Although most of the tarot cards you see today have been re-designed with the intention that they represent various occult beliefs, they do not have an occult origin. Because of this, 'reading' with them is no different in kind from reading with any number of every items and no more of a threat. After all, people read tea leaves - but tea drinkers don't report haunted tea pots! I personally don't believe in fortune telling but if you do, you've no cause for concern.
3. Yes, Tarot cards are used in much the same way that the Ouija boards are. The power of divination, no matter what divination device you use, comes from the calling forth of spirits. The participant(s) get(s) the attention of these spirits and ask(s) them questions, whereupon the spirits respond by moving the planchette around on the Ouija board or manipulating the order of the cards. The spirits who are summoned in this way are never good ones. Good spirits will not respond to this type of summoning. Sometimes the spirits who are summoned are merely neutral or mischievous. Other spirits may be more powerful than these, and may actually have actual limited knowledge of the future they may impart. However, these spirits are nearly always malevolent, and when summoned they may decide to take residence in the room or household where they are summoned. Sometimes they will even take residence in the participants themselves! Once they have taken residence, they can manifest themselves in our world of reality in real and very frightening, and in some cases very destructive, ways. Depending on the power of these malevolent beings, one may be able to drive them out in a variety of ways. These spirits are very legalistic, however, and some of them may have the power to take up permanent residence in the room, household or person they have elected to haunt. These spirits can only be gotten rid of by identifying the source of their right to be wherever they are, renouncing this right, and flooding the host with good spirits. They can then be forced to flee. Very powerful evil spirits may be difficult to exorcise even in this manner, but it is the only manner that has been proven to be successful. Keep in mind that this is the way you get rid of the malevolent spirits once you have them. You cannot prevent their permanent residence by any means, whether by religious prayers, icons, garlic, holy water, or whatever, because the actual calling forth of spirits is what gives them the right to stay. The calling of the spirits will override any preventive measures you could use to prevent their permanent residence. If you do call forth spirits to manipulate objects in the real world and divulge information, you are asking for trouble. My advice is, DON'T! No information received in this way is worth the potential risk of possession by evil spirits. Many lives have been completely destroyed in this way. Please, don't let this happen to you. If you are tempted to use divination devices to call forth spirits, get rid of them. Your life will be much better for it. - LJS
4. No, Ouija boards are totally different then Tarot cards. Tarot cards are safe because they get there power to fortune tell from the reader's energy while ouija boards get there power from spirits that guide the board and can become attached to it which causes problems. My sisters are both Wiccan and use tarot cards quite often while they completely avoid ouija boards. I hoped that helped!
5. No, Tarot cards are not like Ouija boards except that they are both used as forms of dinivation. However, it seems most people tend to use Ouija boards as a way to speak with spirits. However, Tarot is completely different. I find Tarot to be a wonderful and powerful tool to tell us what we need to know about ourselves, and also to let us know about things that are going to happen if we continue living our lives the way we do. By knowing that through the Tarot if there is something that isn't quite so possitive that is likely to happen we can know in advance, and perhaps find a way--from advice through the cards--to change it. Hope that helps!