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IMHO The two Schools of Thought are 'Tarot is Predictive' and 'Tarot is Intuitive.' Predictive would be considered 'information from without' - meaning that the cards (and their interpretations thereof) are produced from an outside source. Many people believe Tarot is a direct connection to the Divine, their spirit guides, angels sitting on their shoulder - all from a source from without and not under human control. If you believe that God/Goddess/All That Is is bringing the cards up - would your God lie to you? Are you a 'Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God' ? "God: You ran a stop sign today so for the next month all your Tarot readings will be wrong."
In the School of Intuitives Tarot is controlled by the subconscious mind, the human aura, muscle contractions in the hands, and many other theories. These people also say that Tarot cannot predict a single future event because we do not - as humans- know the future. But the Tarot can tap deep into your psyche, into memories you do not know you have, into parts of the brain we do not even understand. This is what archetypes are all about - the abilty to recognise universal symbols that may be in your brain at birth. Can the human brain be deceived? Yes - how many people only see the skull but not the girl sitting at the vanity in the famous illusion? Does that make Intuitive's cards 'wrong' ?
Going back to my statement in my other post - I do not believe the cards can be 'wrong' - as in 'they deliberately lied to you' - either the wrong question was asked or they were mis-interpreted by the Reader. I have had many readings where the 'Final Outcome' never came - but that does not mean the cards were 'wrong.'
How come the cards cannot be both intuitive and predictive? Insight no matter what form as with Power can come from within and from without. Example being when I do a reading, I not only pray to the powers that be as I see them, but I also clear my mind and focus on the energy of my being. To me the Power of the cards is both internal and external.