Tarot Cards

Interesting, but it can’t be true. If it was, my destiny would be too boring.

Heh…
This reminds me of a really weird SNES rom I found once.
The only thing it did was tell your fortune with tarot cards :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyway, I don’t really believe in that tarot works, I’d more say that it MIGHT work.
I don’t think it tells the future, more like a warning about what might happen.

Anyway, according to that site my essential card is:

III - The Empress

Venus in Taurus, standing for fertility and growth, the earth rules the Taurus
Planet: Venus
Tree of life: The horizontal axis between Chokmah (the universal power) and Binah (the understanding)
Number: 3 as the combination of the contrasts to a unity (synthesis, harmony)

The Empress is the friendlier, more approachable aspect of the female archetype. She stands for maternity, love and mercy; at the same time she’s a symbol for sexuality and emotion. She is pure feeling, absolutely unintellectual, but basically life. The Empress is the Great Mother, representing the beginning of all life. She is the power of nature, causing change, renewal, major plans.

The Empress also stands for passion, a phase in which we cope life on an emotional and joyful basis, rather than on the thoughtful. This could mean great satisfaction, but in a improper context, when actually more analysis is needed. The Empress can also stand for a reflective, emotional attitude, refusing to accept reality. It also could stand for a person who is greedy for joy and abundance when actually just more self-control is needed.

Drive: Devotion and maternity, Mother Nature, creating something new in connection of both inside and outside

Light: Maternity, love, trust, fulfilness, the joy of great abundance

Shadow: Greed, envy, jealousy, laziness

“The Empress can also stand for a reflective, emotional attitude, <I>refusing to accept reality</I>.”
In some ways it is actually correct :stuck_out_tongue:

Oh, and the other two cards were Prince of Discs and Five of Discs - Worry
They had some things in common with the way my life (and I) seem right now, but not much…

I actually I have my own tarot cards. They are pretty cool. And often very accurate, if that is the right word.

Her deck seems quite different from the one I hav got, for example my one has Strength as VIII, but I guess each deck has slight variations. Anyway I got:

Essential Card: IV - The Emperor

Sun in Capricorn, standing for responsibility, order, security, continuity
Zodiac: Aries
Tree of life: The axis Netzach (creativity and anarchy) -Yesod (reflection and imagination): from chaos to structure
Number: 4 as physical reality, basic structure, orientation

Drive: Mastery of the will over nature, a sense for law and order, plan and structure

Light: Creation, recognition, stability, realism, responsiveness

Shadow: Despotism, selfcomplacancy, poorness of feelings, lack of fantasy; rationalism as a prison

Pesonality Card: Prince of Cups

Drive: The combination of Spirit and Soul

Light: Compassion, warmth, love, artistic intentions

Shadow: Selfishness, unscrupulousness, cruelty

Destiny Card: Four of Swords

Drive: Manifestation, balance of powers

Light: A chance to reflect, a rest from fighting, tolerance, generosity

Shadow: Cold truce which means no peace at all, isolation, forced restriction

This is somewhat right, but not entirely right, in my opinion.

I can’t seem how to figure this thing out, might be because it’s late.

Essential Card
VIII - Adjustment

Venus in Libra, standing for fairness and justice, with a clear aspect to Saturn
Zodiac: Libra
Tree of life: The connection between Geburah (movement) and Tiphareth (consciousness and harmony)
Number: 8 as the number of justice and adjustment (2 x 4, 2 x 2 etc.)

The adjustment is a symbol for the balance of contrasts, complementing one another and also building up room and time. She combines the High Priestress and the Magician. Both are connected - true, conscious action results from realization, wisdom is based on action. The principle of activity completes itself with the passivity of inner reflection, the adjustment being the balance in between.

Another common name of this trump is ‘Justice’ - the card tells one to be righteous in all aspects of our life, to ignore, surpress or prefer none if need be. Only when we have an objective view of all and accept them, can we can find inner balance and silence.

Therefore, the Adjustment stands for uncompromising honesty and objectivity, the realization of cause and effect, background and consequence.

Drive: Will for knowlegde, harmony between reality and instinct, objectivity

Light: Balance, justice, fairness, always looking at both sides

Shadow: Selfrighteousness

Some of it fits, and some of it doesn’t. For instance: While I like balance, I think chaos is the only true force. At least I got eight. My favourite numbers are six, eight, twelve, and 13.

essential
VIII - Adjustment
Drive: Will for knowlegde, harmony between reality and instinct, objectivity

Light: Balance, justice, fairness, always looking at both sides

Shadow: Selfrighteousness

personality
prince of disks
Drive: Solidity, increased material, growth

Light: Unwavering, industrious, enduring, reliable, practcal, reasonable, careful

Shadow: Stubbornness, corruption, avarice, phlegma, dullness, coldness

destiny
6 of disks success
Drive: Overcome of crisis, success

Light: Wealth, generosity, nobility

Shadow: False pride, taken everything for granted, prodigal

So I’m going to be a rich, old and stubborn, selfrighteous bastard? uh…yay? stupid cards.

Tarot is like astrology. It is not the cards themselves, it is whether you believe in what they are saying that makes it come true.

It’s all psychological suggestion. Let’s take for instance, the supposedly divinatory phrase “You will find someone special today.”

If you believe in the phrase, you will naturally be on the lookout for someone special, and will likely find ‘someone special.’

If you disbelieve in the phrase, you will just roll your eyes and conduct bussiness as usual.

Originally posted by Chris StarShade
“You will find someone special today.”

Only an idiotic hack (such as Ms. Cleo) would say something like that. =p

Well, that’s what the crummy newspaper astrologers say all the time.

Besides, I was doing a simpler example because my brain is too numb right now to think of anything complicated.

Originally posted by Chris StarShade
Well, that’s what the crummy newspaper astrologers say all the time.

If you actually read up on astrology, you’ll realize that the newspaper astrologers are more full of shit than anyone ever. I mean, even if you think astrology is shit… well… lets just say that newspaper astrologers don’t even come close to the rules of astrology. =p

Hierophant (nnnot really, no), Knight of Cups (heck yeah…), 7 of Swords (uh… kinda, maybe…).

Hmm, I got the Empress. I won’t post the whole card info here, because no one’s gonna read it anyway. :stuck_out_tongue:

Personally I’m more into I Ching. It’s way simpler.

I would have read, surprisely. I’m into tarot cards and all this kind new age stuff or whatever it be. It’s not like i believe everything to be true i just like thinking something can truely know how i am without really knowing. I bet that didn’t make sense at all… sigh

the tarot, like all systems of divination, only works because it helps to manipulate the conscious mind of the diviner into pathways through which the unconscious part of it can reach out into the web of all-connectedness and read the past, the future, and the present in all places. the beautiful images and stories behind the cards are just shadows - to believe in and venerate them creates grooves in our mental mindscape whereby the REAL power can more easily access the truth. that’s why I’m kinda skeptical of tarot told over the internet, or of people who say that the divinatory power lies in the cards alone.

It’s kind of a quandary - it’s like hypnosis. You can’t be put under hypnosis unless you believe that you can be put under hypnosis. But if you believe in it as it’s going on, then you allow yourself to overcome those conscious barriers, and you really are hypnotized.

-mazrim taim very briefly

edit: Yeah dude, that’s kinda exactly what Raven is saying btw, on (his? her?) reams of random spiel.

“However, another most common question in Tarot is: ‘Is Tarot dangerous?’
Generally, it is not, unless you eat all 78 cards at once. That might cause some stomach problems and give you funny colored lips.”

Heh! Rock on, dude, rock on. :smiley: Naw seriously though, I’m being irreverent, Raven goes on to say stuff about how your unconscious really is a pretty dangerous thing and how there’s more both “out there” and “in there” than we might be ready to believe.