Heals Apr 8

Researching cartomancy and stumbling inadvertently over the history of Tarot cards used for divination.

It's a bit disheartening when you read "pretty much all claims of any occult links were debunked as made up". I guess that's good PR to sell them cards..

But if it's all made up, why do they seemingly work?
I've done tarot readings for friends in the past so.. was that all just me doing good guesswork?

#healsRants #healsQuestionsTheUniverse

Show threadevil shoofleApr 8
@heals i have answers for this actually if you are interested!
Show threadHeals 
@shoofle answer away, that's why shared my mental rambles in the first place :)
Apr 8 at 2:09pmWeb
Show threadevil shoofleApr 8
@heals I think of tarot cards as a means to probe your subconscious by a random stimulus - give a random input, see how you feel about it, use that to figure out how you're feeling about something on levels you're not consciously aware of. And we have a lot of understanding of things that we're not aware of!
Show threadevil shoofleApr 8
@heals add that to cold reading, and hot reading, and the normal startling effectiveness of random chance, and you get a divinatory practice!