Why Not Tarot?
There are many kinds of psychic readers in the world. The State Fair comes to town once a year and there’s Madame Sabrina, the amazing palm reader, who sets up a booth. Walk down to the corner on Broadway Blvd and there’s a shop with a neon sign flashing “Psychic” and the lady inside uses a crystal ball. In some cities you can find astrologers in your local Yellow Pages. I did a call-in show with an Akashic Reader once which was very informative. Let’s not forget Sylvia Brown as she stands on the talk show stage answering questions left and right (“Yes, dear,” “No, he doesn’t really love you,” “You father loves you very much and he wants you to know he’s very proud of you,” “I see you finding your fortune in real estate, I really feel you should go back to that real estate class you quit a few years ago,”) and then there are tarot readers.
I recently read an online article that discussed how some people will actually go out of their way to avoid tarot readings, preferring psychics who talk only to their angel guides or maybe tap into the Akashic records. Both the author and myself could not understand exactly why someone would find themselves pretty much repulsed by tarot. Is this from fear of some evil content? That would seem unlikely, the occult is the occult period whether you use astrology, crystals, tarot or skrying into the spirit world. Or could it be that they had a bad experience? Maybe they know that the tarot will deliver bad news sometimes and they want to avoid that, or maybe they encountered a tarot reading that was unskilled and just simply did not like the results.
I prefer tarot over all other forms of divination (right next to astrology) for several reasons. Tarot is a reliable and consistent divination tool if used correctly. Tarot is based on an ancient structure of occult wisdom that attempts to understand everything. Tarot helps me release my conscious barriers and tap into my most intuitive side. Tarot removes me (ego) from the equation and helps me find answers and ideas that I would not have come to on my own.
Although just about every newspaper in the world published a daily horoscope, I do not find astrology very useful for basic day to day affairs. It is very difficult to use astrology for those specific question we might normally ask a telephone or Internet psychic (“How does he really feel about me?” “Do you think it would be a mistake if I sent this proposal to our company manager’s office?”). And dead spirits may be informative about what it’s like on the other side, and they may even be able to help locate lost objects – but they are no smarter now then when they were alive and I find it hard to believe that they would know the answers to those questions. A talented seer with a crystal ball might be able to help, but it seems like a lot of distance travelling just to get some daily advice.
Tarot cards are made out of paper. That gives them a sense of relationship to
the earth around us that allows us to use them even for the simplest of concerns. The I Ching (an ancient Chinese oracle device) is structured on mathematics and philosophy, much like the tarot is, but is often more profound and so is best suited for those very important moral questions we have from time to time. Astrology is as slow as the heavens and we all know what it actually takes to try to move Heaven and Earth, so we normally only need to go to that source to view the overall direction our life is taking (you can get your daily transit reports, but without the big picture in mind this can really be a waste of time to try to understand). Waking up someone’s Aunt Ursala from the beyond just to ask about the risks of losing your job should actually be considered rude. Tarot can be approached about any topic without fail, and seeing the consistency a good reader has in explaining the cards on the table is proof alone that what you see is what you get (even on a phone reading, the tarot reader should be able to tell you what cards are coming out and what they mean to your question at the time).