Amythyst said:
For the past three years or so, I have been experimenting with using the Tarot to solve murder cases and missing persons.
I do at least two readings when I first get the story-- I prefer to have the barest of details on the case. I will then follow the news to gather information on the cases and see how accurate I am.
I always wondered if the Tarot could be used for practical purposes like this and I've never known anyone else who did this. The results are sometimes startling and I find it amazing and heartbreaking at the same time.
I have never spoke up or tried to contact law enforcement and actually give them any of this information. Mainly because I feel they would take a very dim view of the whole idea.
Has anyone else used the Tarot in this manner and, if so, how do you think your results were?
Yes! I got started reading Tarot, along with several friends of mine, in 1978 when we were all 14 years of age. A few months after we started learning to read cards, a news story broke whereby a well-known actor was murdered. We did follow the case, as best we could, by doing about a billion card readings over the next few months. I still have the notebook where we wrote everything down. To this day, I write up readings in the same style that we perfected back then.
One of these days, I think I should dig out the book and review the reading interpretations. With the benefit of years of reading experience (insead of months) and age (42 as opposed to 14), I'm sure to see nuances and details that we missed back then.
Two things I distinctly recall us ferreting out were that the actor knew the person who killed him, and that there was a woman involved. The case remains unsolved to this day, though MANY years later a person went on trial for the crime. Surprise, surprise, it was a person the actor knew. And they were both involved in, um, promiscuous behavior with women at the time leading up to the murder.
The individual was acquitted, at least in part due to a lack of physical evidence after so many years had passed (and after the authorities fouled up as far as keeping track of evidence they DID gather). But the police did believe he was the culprit, and so the case remains on the books, unsolved. He has since passed away, so we'll never be able to know for certain what happened.
We never contacted authorities with anything WE found, either. We figured that they'd think we were nuts if we tried. How could a bunch of high school freshmen, who've been reading cards for a few months, provide usable information to a bunch of law enforcement officers who are located three time zones away? Even if we were perfectly on target on all counts, I'm sure the response would've been along the lines of, "That's nice. Now run along and play, and leave the police alone to do their jobs."
I can't recommend following news stories highly enough, though, as a good way to "practice" and get relatively quick feedback on results. Well, at least as long as the story remains in the headlines, there'll be feedback, anyway. And thanks to the internet, there's always the chance of ferreting out additional stories about the news item SOMEwhere, even after it's disappeared from your local news.
Keep on doing what you're doing. FWIW, we found it very helpful to the learning process to follow a news story avidly via Tarot readings.
K