How the tarot had influenced your decitions live ?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 20 Aug 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

paulo32	20 Aug 2003
Hello I wonder how the tarot had influenced your decitions on your live ? On a positive way and a negative way bye sorry for my english paulo

Elle	20 Aug 2003
Ha! I had doubts about my ability to keep up with a "debate" group - a bunch of people who get together to talk politics, history, and current events - which often shifts into a philosophical discussion. I did a spread the following day (after the first debate, where I felt grilled and pummelled), and because of that, stopped attending the meetings! It looked like all the Knights and Kings thought I could not keep up. So I bowed out gracefully...(ego was sore, though) Warmest, Elle

Indigo_lady	20 Aug 2003
I'm stubborn.. very stubborn I like tarot very much and try to learn as much as I can about it. Yet when I come to a deccisive moment in my life I don't consult the cards until after I have taken my decission For some very odd reason I feel my independence when taking my decission would be affected by the tarot -as you see I have issues with people telling me what to do... even if it's my own unconscious... Now that I think of it, I've barely asked for advice on a situation ... I've asked for insight and clarification.. but not really for advice...

Kiama	21 Aug 2003
I find that alot of the time I make the decision partially in my mind before I use the cards, and then I do a reading just to explore the option I am leaning towards at the time... This way, I find out influences and effects that I hadn't previously considered. I don't live my life by what a Tarot reading says. Most of the time I'll do a reading, and then live my life in my own way, using the cards as a sign-post telling where I was at the time of the reading. When I do a reading I simply find out what will happen if I carry on the way I'm going, but after the reading I just do what I want and usually forget the cards that were in the spread! (I write them down however, so that I can turn to them later for perusal). Paulo, I think your English is very good considering it's not your first language. :D Kiama

paulo32	21 Aug 2003
Thanks Kiama In fact i have live somme time in london working,for somme moths, but now i live in Portugal and i need to have the dictionary next to the computer, for undertsand somme works. I donīt like to live in portugal because this country is a mess in a literal sense. Thatīs why i like this forum. We can have good discutions and manny diferent points of view with out confusion in this virtual place. I Portugal is dificult to have so diferents points of with so calm and peace. I think is time to say : thanks of all the people who participate in this forum. bye paulo

firemaiden	21 Aug 2003
I don't read for myself much, nor ask decision-type questions of others who read for me, but rather, I am more curious to know the deeper meaning behind things, I'll ask questions about who a new person I meet is, or how am I doing type questions. However, ONE time, when I first joined Aeclectic, I did ask a question, and acted upon the advice. I asked the tarot "who is this guy B-- for me?" And the answer came up THE TOWER. Further discussion of the situation with fellow Aeclecticians convinced me to get this person out of my life, which I did, and I think it was the right thing to do.

WolfSpirit	22 Aug 2003
In my daily draws I always have one card as "advice" but I don't consciously base my decisions on it, it is more an underlying influence if this makes any sense. It does help me make the most of the day, sometimes it is something I was already aware of anyway. If it is something that does not make sense to me I try to figure out afterwards what the card could have meant, but I don't base my decisions on it. I rarely do a decision spread, often I already know what I really want and it makes no sense to ask the cards. I once discovered what it was I really wanted when I did a decision spread and the cards adviced against what I wanted. So in that case the cards helped me find out what I most wanted to do - although it was clearly not the easiest path to take.

paulo32	24 Aug 2003
Hello firemaiden It happens a similar situation im my live like yours. I just give some distance and it works well. What I mean is : itīs no did to cut relations because of the tarot. Bye Paulo

VGimlet	24 Aug 2003
I thought about this question for a while before I came up with the answer. I am a very stubborn person, and sometimes I make decisions very fast, and don't want to change my mind. I use the tarot as a tool, to help me learn to think before I act. Also sometimes I can get focused on one part of a problem, and the information I get from reading the cards has, in the past, helped me change my perspective. I certainly make many (most) decisions without consulting the cards, but I find them a very useful tool.

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