Tarot readers and fortune tellers

[L50LasPak]

What kind of apocalypse?

Specifically the one mentioned in Revelations. The modern depiction of the Death card is shown riding a white horse, which is clearly influenced by the King James interpretation of the quote about the fourth rider:

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
(The Catholic bible specifies a pale green horse, so this is definitely the influence of the KJV bible on the modern card. There are several cards dating back to the pre-KJV bible though that show Death riding a grey or brown horse instead. )

This leads to the modern interpretation that the Death card represents "change", which is technically correct but misleading. It represents change because of course things are going to change significantly during an apocalypse. More accurately the Death card represents "an end" but personally I would append that to "a big end" rather than something insignificant like a single death or bad event. It would be an event that likely upends your entire life, for better or worse.

 

[Ophelia Jones]

Specifically the one mentioned in Revelations. The modern depiction of the Death card is shown riding a white horse, which is clearly influenced by the King James interpretation of the quote about the fourth rider:

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
(The Catholic bible specifies a pale green horse, so this is definitely the influence of the KJV bible on the modern card. There are several cards dating back to the pre-KJV bible though that show Death riding a grey or brown horse instead. )

This leads to the modern interpretation that the Death card represents "change", which is technically correct but misleading. It represents change because of course things are going to change significantly during an apocalypse. More accurately the Death card represents "an end" but personally I would append that to "a big end" rather than something insignificant like a single death or bad event. It would be an event that likely upends your entire life, for better or worse.

So if the Death card represents the apocalypse, then what would pulling a death card in a personal reading represent?

 

[L50LasPak]

So if the Death card represents the apocalypse, then what would pulling a death card in a personal reading represent?

An upending event, that is going to essentially end life as the person knows it, for better or worse. Often worse though. But there is hypothetically a future beyond a straight Death card.

 

[CarbieDoll]

Oh, yeah, this thread is up my ally. I know someone who started doing tarot in the pandemic, and she quickly became a deck collector. And I mean going out hunting decks and participating in auctions. I think she's close to 100 decks now... To me, it's just another form of consumerism disguised as spirituality.

 

[Ophelia Jones]

Oh, yeah, this thread is up my ally. I know someone who started doing tarot in the pandemic, and she quickly became a deck collector. And I mean going out hunting decks and participating in auctions. I think she's close to 100 decks now... To me, it's just another form of consumerism disguised as spirituality.

Yeah I had a similar friend who was always larping as a fake hippie. Buying decks and hippie clothes and crystals but underneath all of that you could see she was just some rich white chick who's always high on weed.

 

[Retired Junta Member]

A friend of my mother became rich thanks to tarots lol she was an excellent cold reader

 

[AmphimorphodusCynomorphus]

Who wants to argue with me about what the Death card means?

If you pull the Death card it means you are definitely going to die

 

[HIVidaBoheme]

An upending event, that is going to essentially end life as the person knows it, for better or worse. Often worse though. But there is hypothetically a future beyond a straight Death card.

I also like how some Witchblr/Twitter/Tiktok tarot posers love to append a grim meaning to it, while others simply leave it as "something awful is coming your way" when the meaning ascribed to it agrees on a major change.

And then almost no one draws it upside down with an accurate interpretation of it's inverse meaning.

Speaking of which @L50LasPak I read it was meant to be interpreted as "complete lack of change, stagnation and close call in an accident". What do you think?

 

[L50LasPak]

Speaking of which @L50LasPak I read it was meant to be interpreted as "complete lack of change, stagnation and close call in an accident". What do you think?

I believe that's the Inverted meaning, when you draw the card upside down. Each card means its opposite or an interpretation of its opposite when Inverted, but not all fortune tellers do Inverted cards because it complicates the readings.

 

[Michael Wade]

My understanding is that this shit is fake and gay at best and if it ever gets legit.... You dont want to play with it.

I mean who here has had a "good" experience with it?

 

[L50LasPak]

My understanding is that this shit is fake and gay at best and if it ever gets legit.... You dont want to play with it.

I mean who here has had a "good" experience with it?

Its a parlor trick. A deck of Italian playing cards can't talk to ghosts or summon demons. If you unironically think it can, you're dumber than the Tumblr Witches are.

 

[Ophelia Jones]

Its similar to peoples interest in astrology. We know stars can't tell our future but still its entertaining to read the horoscope section of the newspaper when theres nothing else to read.

 

[Michael Wade]

Its similar to peoples interest in astrology. We know stars can't tell our future but still its entertaining to read the horoscope section of the newspaper when theres nothing else to read.

Its a parlor trick. A deck of Italian playing cards can't talk to ghosts or summon demons. If you unironically think it can, you're dumber than the Tumblr Witches are.

All I know is god is not terribly fond of the practice

"There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God,"

 

[L50LasPak]

Yes, and damnation awaits us all, for there is no man righteous. Not a one.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

I like the art of tarot but the culture around it is cringe.

 

[ComeOnDuder]

I use to have a thing for crazy chicks, like pagans into fortune telling and crystals. Was interesting and the intimacy of the rituals was fun but holy shit keep these people as a side piece. Any kind of aura reading is a symptom of true derangement.

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[eternal dog mongler]

A friend of my mother became rich thanks to tarots lol she was an excellent cold reader

Probably easier than ever these days thanks to social media. Just look your clients up beforehand. I think that's called warm reading though.

 

[Red Mask]

I love the Tarot myself as I like the asthetic and find them entertaining. I also use them as guidelines which is how they’re supposed to be utilized. I don’t care what God thinks of it. I have a Mystic Mondays deck, but that’s it. I have a Tarot App full of Love Nikki decks. LOL.

 

[Retired Junta Member]

Probably easier than ever these days thanks to social media. Just look your clients up beforehand. I think that's called warm reading though.

She usually asked her clients the age, occupation and if they were single, etc. Combined with their appearance, it gave her more than enough material to work on.

But yeah, social media are a goldmine for “fortune tellers” who work via cam etc.

It’s warm reading, yeah. It became “cold” during the sitting when more stuff came out.

 

[Pliskin101]

Huh, never expected to see a thread about Tarot here, of all places. My dad plays Tarot "professionally" (as in, he makes money out of it), but he doesn't really believe in the mystical side of it, he treats it like therapy for people. I think it's fun, but people that are way too obsessed with it are pretty weird.