Young Readers

Isaacrpgr

I came across a thread a day or two ago talking about readint to teens or young adults and thread about the majority of female/male readers there is,well this thread is a mixed of them two but with them reversed....sort of

How many people here who read(anything) are aged up to 21?,How many of you are much mature then other but are looked down upon as a reader due to your age making people thinking your just a kid with some game and they have to humor you? I myself am 15,I have a bit of intellectuality to Aspergers Syndrome and always have been drawn to magick/divination even though i'm only a beginner in tarot reading i don't think I'm doing too bad and luckily havn't been looked upon for this?
but how many of you young tarot readers face this problem
also (to general)what do you feel about young readers
 

darkmoon84

Hi, Im 21 and I am faced sometimes with that problem. Family members think that Im playing around with my cards, they dont take me seriously, but not only because of my age also because they dont believe in tarot cards so they think Im trying to be a "witch" or something. I consider myself young, because I am, but not childish at all. People always say that Im much more mature for my age...so I guess that maybe its not only my age but the fact that that they dont believe....

I would let a 15 year old give me a reading, as long as she/he knows how to...i dont think giving a good reading has to do with age but with experience and knowledge (..intuition...)
 

Pao

This is a very interesting question. Well I am 25 and I officially started eading up on Tarot when I was about 16 or 17, but the other day I was remembering that I may have actually started way before that when I was about 12. i would just take a deck of playing cards and ask questions and would come to an answer seeing the cards that would come up and nobody in my family read cards nor had I ever ocme into contact with someone who did so I basically just had that inclination all by myself, which I feel very lucky for. Now that I'm 25 I still find people are surprised i read them and always ask me if I am good, i think they expect me not to be and that always put a little doubt in my head so I end up answering im only learning (even if Ive been at it for years) It almost sounds like they are waiting to test me, like ok lets see read them for me and then if I get everything wrong they'll just assume its because Im 'young" but I find that everybody is different I know people who are 40 and just beginning so i don't think you can judge someone by their age specially since divination is based on intuation, whose to say a 17 years old can't follow theirs?

just my take on it :)

BB

Paola
 

Alpha-Omega

Hey there. Well I started Tarot at 13 and no one knew about it execpt for my Sister and she was skeptic of course. Now I am 18 and she and my Cousin always come to me for a reading cause my readings always hit the spot. As you get older and you get better as a reader others will respect you more for your talent.
 

Gemini Rising

I'm 15 as well, but on this website (I actually joined last year, stayed on for a few months, lost a bunch of passwords...) I found that nobody seems to care what age you are when you read, because you can be skilled at any age.

However, I do like to think I'm wise way beyond my years. I hold very strong and "unorthodox" views on religion, God, reincarnation, etc. I offer my bits of wisdom, but they're rejected by kids my own age because it isn't "cool" to be wise, spiritual, understanding, etc, and when I try and offer spiritual guidance to adults, they say "Oh, it's just youthful idealism. I was the same way in the 1960's."

No, it isn't idealism. My parents have learned to follow my advice, and they've learned I know how to deal with my life completely on my own. I have my own set of morals that are completely and totally independent from my parents, and there are things they haven't taught me at all that I emulate daily because it makes sense to me to do so.

The only time my wisdom was respected was at my Youth Group that I now no longer go to because my parents can't stand driving me all over God's creation as it is (I live in an area where I'm an hour away from everything, school included). I used to go to a study group, and it was very strict and dogmatic-if you didn't go to this specific church, God hated you and damned you to hell without question (basically). My goal to go there was originally because of a girl I liked (I am, after all, a hormone-crazed teenage boy), but after finding out she hated me, found that I had another mission there. In the study group I was in, we were told that God loved you and helped you if you believed in Christ, Jesus would save you, and on and on and on...coming from a Jewish background, this offended me greatly.

I began pointing out that no matter what religion you are, how you worship God or where, or what you call Him (or Her), it's still the same God, and that even if you are an atheist who only mentions God in vulgarity, that if God was truly as loving as Christians claim, He (or She) wouldn't care. I mentioned that no matter how evil a person may be, I always try to find that little piece of God, that Spark of the Divine, buried deep within their soul, and after a while, the study leader told me she saw God in me. For some reason I don't know, that's when I stopped attending that youth group.

I'm disrespected everywhere I go for one reason or another, and I'm glad there are other people who go through the same thing...

Those who have ears, LET THEM HEAR, DAMMIT!

~Nicky
 

Alpha-Omega

Gemini Rising said:
I'm 15 as well, but on this website (I actually joined last year, stayed on for a few months, lost a bunch of passwords...) I found that nobody seems to care what age you are when you read, because you can be skilled at any age.

However, I do like to think I'm wise way beyond my years. I hold very strong and "unorthodox" views on religion, God, reincarnation, etc. I offer my bits of wisdom, but they're rejected by kids my own age because it isn't "cool" to be wise, spiritual, understanding, etc, and when I try and offer spiritual guidance to adults, they say "Oh, it's just youthful idealism. I was the same way in the 1960's."

No, it isn't idealism. My parents have learned to follow my advice, and they've learned I know how to deal with my life completely on my own. I have my own set of morals that are completely and totally independent from my parents, and there are things they haven't taught me at all that I emulate daily because it makes sense to me to do so.

The only time my wisdom was respected was at my Youth Group that I now no longer go to because my parents can't stand driving me all over God's creation as it is (I live in an area where I'm an hour away from everything, school included). I used to go to a study group, and it was very strict and dogmatic-if you didn't go to this specific church, God hated you and damned you to hell without question (basically). My goal to go there was originally because of a girl I liked (I am, after all, a hormone-crazed teenage boy), but after finding out she hated me, found that I had another mission there. In the study group I was in, we were told that God loved you and helped you if you believed in Christ, Jesus would save you, and on and on and on...coming from a Jewish background, this offended me greatly.

I began pointing out that no matter what religion you are, how you worship God or where, or what you call Him (or Her), it's still the same God, and that even if you are an atheist who only mentions God in vulgarity, that if God was truly as loving as Christians claim, He (or She) wouldn't care. I mentioned that no matter how evil a person may be, I always try to find that little piece of God, that Spark of the Divine, buried deep within their soul, and after a while, the study leader told me she saw God in me. For some reason I don't know, that's when I stopped attending that youth group.

I'm disrespected everywhere I go for one reason or another, and I'm glad there are other people who go through the same thing...

Those who have ears, LET THEM HEAR, DAMMIT!

~Nicky
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Wo I think I found my Twin! lol We both share the same ideas and beliefs.
I have unorthodox views that diff from my family and the older people in my family get mad at my views cause it does not agree with theres
 

euripides

Gemini Rising said:
I'm 15 as well, .....
I began pointing out that no matter what religion you are, how you worship God or where, or what you call Him (or Her), it's still the same God, and that even if you are an atheist who only mentions God in vulgarity, that if God was truly as loving as Christians claim, He (or She) wouldn't care. I mentioned that no matter how evil a person may be, I always try to find that little piece of God, that Spark of the Divine, buried deep within their soul, and after a while, the study leader told me she saw God in me. For some reason I don't know, that's when I stopped attending that youth group.

I'm disrespected everywhere I go for one reason or another, and I'm glad there are other people who go through the same thing...

Those who have ears, LET THEM HEAR, DAMMIT!

~Nicky
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You sure you're only 15? You seem like an old soul to me! Your philosophy about God sounds wise to my ears. I'm almost 40.

warmest wishes
Euri
 

Fulgour

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Fairawen

I'm seventeen now, though when I started I must have been about thirteen-fourteen.

Unfortunatly, I've never had the chance to be spurned/accepted for my use of tarot, because I've had to keep it under wraps. I have God-fearing parents who... though I have absolutly no problem with their religious choices, don't take me wrong... they hinder *me* by saying tarot is evil, of the devil, ect... you know the drill. :)

I'm homeschooled so, once again, I can't even tell you if I'm "wise", or anything equivilent. When I come up with theories of a God, or Gods... I begin second guessing, or coming up with an even better theory. When I'm sure I'm right, I'll be wrong. I'll doubt, I'll pout, and get in nasty moods. :D I've been called an "old soul" by a few people here on AT.

But. Me? Wise? Nah. Just a homeschooled girl who plays around with tarot. I search, and hope for answers. But there'll always be some I can't. Right? :)

Back to reading young: I see no problem with this. The sooner you start reading, the sooner you start to realize so many things about yourself. You all know how tarot is... wouldn't you have loved to know some thing, about yourself or others, much sooner then you did? I know I would have loved to find tarot sooner. I say let 'em at it! Good for them! I'd do anything in my power to encourage those starting out young. :) And all you here AT who are younger... same to you: go for it, don't let people stop you, and have faith. If you want to do tarot, no force in the world'll stop ya.

~A~
 

wheeloffortune

Well, I'm 17, turning 18 soon enough in this Blood Moon. I had many hard decisions to make during my turbulent teen years, and it will never stop, even under my family roof.

Your family, although God-fearing as they may be, must realise that their children are growing up and can find God on their own. In Judaic tradition, the age for men and women is 13 and 12. In my religion, Baha'i Faith, it is 15 years of age.

I remember back in the day, when I began the Tarot cards when I was 12 years old. My own mother didn't mind that I took up the practice and opened up that I was a Wiccan (during that time; I still practice Wiccan practices under Baha'i prinicples and theology of course), and then from some other person, she got noted that practicing tarot was of the Devil... Of course, now I just don't care, because although my mother calls herself a Catholic Christian, she practices Feng Shui superstitions and goes to casinos. Even when I was a bible-reading church-going Jesus-loving Catholic Christian, I still disliked those things, those superstitions which she did.

But then, I should let her do whatever she wishes. As much as she should let me do whatever I wish.

Personally now, I see the psychological and soul-connection to the Tarot cards, regardless of any psychic power or magickal intuition, and that any psychic power is not psychic at all, but the open connection of the soul towards an object or whatnot. Whether you believe that there is power in the cards, whether you are psychically inclined, or whether you see Tarot as a means of psychological therapy.

I have firm belief that God will let us follow Him in our respective ways, and if you believe in Him, He will not fail you. Whether it is the Deity of Wicca, Christianity, Sikhism, Baha'i Faith, Hinduism, and even in theistic Buddhism. Parents must realise that independence is not dependent on age, but on the wisdom that their children come to know in the form of self-realisation.
 
When did you start learning the tarot? Tarot shops in Paris?