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Originally Posted by Chrystella
One thing that makes my eyes roll is when a reader makes big, "spooky" claims about a tarot. For example, on eBay, I once saw an auction and the seller claimed the that the tarot deck was super old, owned by a gypsy or a witch who had died, and her spirit was now attached to the deck. It was full of warnings and disclaimers such as "I can't be responsible for what could happen". It was all very ominous (and laughable).
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But I think my biggest pet peeve as a querent is when the reader puts the card down and slams her palm on the table and yells, "You see?". Then she just looks at me very seriously, shaking their head, and says, "You know exactly what to do." That has happened to me so many times.
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how ridiculous
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Originally Posted by gregory
Clarifiers drive me nuts.
But what gets to me most is when the reader knows they are right, when they actually can't be, and insists on that in the face of everything to the contrary. I recall one where the reader was CERTAIN the sitter would become pregnant. This is REALLY not likely to happen to a 65 year old - but the reader was adamant, even when this was pointed out. It absolutely WAS going to be a LITERAL PREGNANCY (she tried suggesting projects and so on - no, it was BABIES.)
Pressed VERY hard, the reader allowed that it MIGHT mean an adoption - well, no, no chance.
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My pet peeve is when customers take EVERYTHING so literal with tarot and live their life to the cards. I have clients who would come to me for a reading about their love life. Then, 6 to 9 mos. later come back and ask again--and then tear that reading apart because it was "nothing like what the reading 6/9 mos. ago said!"
These customers have made me really hate to do readings on love issues.
I always tell my customers before a reading, that the cards can only give a glimpse of what 'might' be. That nothing is carved in stone, it only gives the customer a possibility of what may be.
Also, I can't stand when customers compare me to other readers they go to. "Well she told me that he is in love with me and we're destined to be together, how come you are telling me that it doesn't look like we'll get back together?"
I also really dislike it when tarot readers take on the role of telling you, the PAYING customer what to do. I had a reader yell at me because "I was making my mother very upset and I should be ashamed of myself!"

Really? Do you even 'know' us? Do you know the WHOLE story there?

(this happened when my mother, my sisters and I all went to a tarot card reader and of course, mom went before me. So, I can only imagine what she said to the reader.