At the beginning of the summer, I was at Colossalcon in Ohio. When I started to get bored between bigger events, I decided to walk around with my tarot deck, and get some practice doing readings for profit (read: $1 a reading). I only got a few bites, but the people that got readings were across the board impressed. Two of the girls I did readings for ended up crying by the end of the reading, shocked by how accurate the things coming up were.However, following a reading where the guy I reading for was particularly impressed, a guy that had sat down to watch made some comments.
Grinning and scoffing, he said something along the lines of;
“Well yeah, but see the descriptions of these cards are so vague that it could fit anybody. A few key words that could work with anybody make it seem true, it’s all fake.”
I let him go on for a few minutes about how buzz words - words that affect everybody - were being used to make it seem like I knew things that I didn't about the guy I was doing a reading for. He was right and wrong at the same time.
When he was done, I just smiled, and explained to him something that I think anybody who wishes to use tarot needs to understand.
“First of all, Tarot does NOT tell the future.”
