List of tarot myths

[NorthernTigress]

Tarot Myth:

That a sitter doesn't actually have to tell their reader the question they want answered. They just need to touch the cards while concentrating and the cards (and the reader!) will receive the "energy" of the question. And obviously a reader who needs to be TOLD the question just isn't very good!

 

[The crowned one]

Tarot Myth:

That a sitter doesn't actually have to tell their reader the question they want answered. They just need to touch the cards while concentrating and the cards (and the reader!) will receive the "energy" of the question. And obviously a reader who needs to be TOLD the question just isn't very good!

Golden dawn says otherwise LOL


"Crowley’s Book of Thoth"

THE SIGNIFICATOR Choose a card to represent the Querent, using your knowledge or judgment of his character ratherthan dwelling on his physical characteristics. This shows the situation of the Querent at the time when he consults you.
1. The pack being in front of you, cut, and place the top half to the left.
2. Cut each pack again to the left.
3. These four stacks represent I H V H, from right to left.
4. Find the Significator. If it be in the Yod pack, the question refers to work, business, etc.; if in theHeh pack, to love, marriage, or pleasure;, if in the Vau pack, to trouble, loss, scandal,quarrelling, etc.; if in the He' final pack, to money, goods, and such purely material matters.
5. Tell the Querent what he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divination.

And again in Paul Foster Case's classic book....

but I hear you!

 

[Minotauro]

I usually tell them I'm "fixed for religion" and when they ask further, tell them I'm a witch.

With Mormons, who are always very young boys, I always call back into the house and say something like "Darling, there's a couple of virgins at the door, and just in time for the sacrifice, too!" They usually leave.

I gradually took off all my clothes once, without a hint of flirtatiousness or eroticism. After all, they came when I needed to take a shower. I was within my own property - it wasn't me who should have been embarrassed. I was merely dressing the way God wanted me to - clothes were something Adam and Eve took on after they sinned, and were therefore sinful. I invited them to come into the bathroom and talk to me while I soaped. They suddenly found they were overdue for an appointment elsewhere.

But the classic was a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses about twelve or thirteen years ago. I remember it almost as if it were yesterday. I was part-feline at the time, and inclined to both bask in the sun and play, so I came out onto the porch and allowed them to Do Their Thing.

Every time he quoted the scriptures, I'd come up with a biblical line saying exactly the opposite thing, plus the correct chapter and verse. They'd look through their Bible, and find the quote as I'd said in the place I'd said. I hadn't memorised the Bible - it just so happened that someone helpful was writing up what I need to say in big silver letters in the sky behind them - they didn't turn around to look. The very last quote (and the only one I remember now after all these years) was them saying Jesus came in peace, and my saying "I come not with peace but a sword", plus chapter and verse. The shoulders slumped. Even the experienced one who was obviously mentoring the other one looked defeated. They weren't surprised when I politely declined to buy a Watchtower. As they started walking away the experienced one turned and said "You're obviously a very spiritual Christian. What religion are you?" I said, as bluntly as possible: I'm a Witch." I didn't get visited at that address again.

I think I love you ._.


I am SO doing all of those.

 

[Minotauro]

aaaand

this is one spread by the dear dear DEAR lord and master of magic and might! ; alejandro jodorowsky , ojo d oro , golden eye;

"the tarot of marseilles is the ONLY real and powerfull tarot with all the RIGHT symbolisms , all others are a fraud , and dont work AT ALL! coincidentally and in a tottaly unrelated subject! Im selling the renewed and original tarot of marseilles deck , restored by me with all my genious-ness , the added stuff you ask? ... well Im sure those were there before you just couldnt see them"

I have a couple of friends who worship him D: they always bully me about my unclean, unworthy tarot decks U.u lol

 

[Barleywine]

this is one spread by the dear dear DEAR lord and master of magic and might! ; alejandro jodorowsky , ojo d oro , golden eye;

"the tarot of marseilles is the ONLY real and powerfull tarot with all the RIGHT symbolisms , all others are a fraud , and dont work AT ALL! coincidentally and in a tottaly unrelated subject! Im selling the renewed and original tarot of marseilles deck , restored by me with all my genious-ness , the added stuff you ask? ... well Im sure those were there before you just couldnt see them"

I have a couple of friends who worship him D: they always bully me about my unclean, unworthy tarot decks U.u lol

Personally the only thing I value Jodorowsky for is his early cult-classic movies. El Topo was mesmerizingly bizarre and intriguing. I just found it on DVD with a couple of his others. I can see in them his preoccupation with occult subject matter but never realized he had become some kind of an authority.

 

[Minotauro]

Personally the only thing I value Jodorowsky for is his early cult-classic movies. El Topo was mesmerizingly bizarre and intriguing. I just found it on CD with a couple of his others. I can see in them his preoccupation with occult subject matter but never realized he had become some kind of an authority.

well I thinks its a spanish speaking countries thing , just like many of the people talked about in this forum are unknown to me.

I also know that in europe the marsleilles is the most used deck.

and I also know he has a thing called psycho-magic , wich aparently only his son and him are capable of doing , and the only ones that can help you and all others who trie are evil liars who want to hurt you!

in any case , I dont like him , I've read or semi read some of his books (Tarot ones), they're really not my thing...

even though I can see why some people like his point of view , maybe Im just used to the english speakinf countries ideas? =P

 

[gregory]

well I thinks its a spanish speaking countries thing , just like many of the people talked about in this forum are unknown to me.

I also know that in europe the marseilles is the most used deck.

Really ? Surprised European tarotista is fascinated by this remark; almost everyone I know uses the RWS or a clone of it.

Now TdM style decks ARE used for the GAME of course. I never saw anyone play tarock with a Waite style deck...

 

[entropy]

I'm so excited! I've read the whole thread and I have not one but TWO myths that haven't been mentioned previously:

1) Never read without cover
2) Never ask about the same thing twice (or more) in one month or the cards will start giving you nonsense answers because they are tired of answering the same stupid question.

I heard the first from a Witch friend of mine after I'd had a dream where someone asked me to read and I refused because we were outside. She then proclaimed that I'd been a gypsy in a past life and that I was accessing residual knowledge and you are never supposed to read without some kind of cover - tent, house, etc. because you never know who might be looking in.

 

[Minotauro]

Really ? Surprised European tarotista is fascinated by this remark; almost everyone I know uses the RWS or a clone of it.

Now TdM style decks ARE used for the GAME of course. I never saw anyone play tarock with a Waite style deck...

well dont trust me on this one I just read about it in some blog I think , I think thir source was something related to lo scarabeo?

anyway in wherever I read that , it said they use that one for divination too

but I can see how that could happen , its the most common there , just as the waite is the most common here , and if they were to learn to read it with divination purposes they'll use the one they alredy know wouldnt they? its familiar and comfortable , etc.

edit: maybe it has to do with the language too? jopdorowsky's audience is spanish speaking , and the pictorial key , raide waite tarot was mainly popular in the states and england?

EDIT 2 : or maybe the fact europeans use mostly the marseilles tarot for divination too is another myth! XD lol

 

[Minotauro]

I'm so excited! I've read the whole thread and I have not one but TWO myths that haven't been mentioned previously:

1) Never read without cover
2) Never ask about the same thing twice (or more) in one month or the cards will start giving you nonsense answers because they are tired of answering the same stupid question.

I heard the first from a Witch friend of mine after I'd had a dream where someone asked me to read and I refused because we were outside. She then proclaimed that I'd been a gypsy in a past life and that I was accessing residual knowledge and you are never supposed to read without some kind of cover - tent, house, etc. because you never know who might be looking in.

well arent the cards a temperamental bunch?
there are SO many myths about how you could anger them!
D:

I guess mine are just friendly and laid back <3