I mean tarot is still superstitious nonsense, but so are religions.
I like tarot because it’s like „death; the tower of doom; the swamp of famine” and that means that you’re gonna have a chill week or something
FWIW, tarot decks were used for card playing before they were used for divining money from the gullible
divining money from the gullible
Thank you for phrasing it this way. Superstitious nonsense is all fun and games until someone loses a buck.
Tarot / psychics / etc. being used for personal and financial gain by preying on the vulnerable is far too common and needs to be called out for what it is. People who peddle this hokum for personal and financial gain are no better than TV preachers.
The card that portends doom is the Tower, usually. There are as many interpretations of Tarot as there are folks that read it, but Death usually means “change.”
Tarot is largely harmless; it’s odd how upset folks on Lemmy get over it. It’s mostly middle aged women and queer men who do it for fun. I use it as a way of organizing my thoughts sometimes - I own a few decks which I enjoy as art pieces and brainstorming tools. I’ll read for friends sometimes and I’m pretty open about the fact that I’m mostly leaning on what the cards do in the Binding of Isaac.
It doesn’t mean you’re gonna have a chill week.
It means literally nothing.
“You drew a royal flush, congratulations. That means the local mayor will give you an enema. Since it’s in the suit of clubs, that means it’ll happen on Tuesday afternoon. That’ll be $30, thanks. Go get flushed, retard.”
There’s a bunch of card games you can play with tarot decks. People should mention this more so that they become more popular again. The people using them for non game reasons is the same as if they were using a Yu-Gi-Oh deck for it.
PS: the standard 52 deck is also a kind of tarot deck.
No, we use it as a reframing device. You basically point a random story generator at currently relevant facets of your life. This helps you to see them from a new perspective, which can get you unstuck when you have reasoned yourself into a corner.
There’s absolutely no belief in magic necessary to use it.
