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mark lewis wrote:I don't do fake readings like a lot of magicians do. It is far better and more accurate to do it for real.
russpie wrote:I agree that the stories which tarot cards can lend themselves to within magic tricks can be seen by audiences to be quite interesting. There's certainly an oldy worldy mystical feel to them.
I also agree with Johnny I'm afraid too, a deck of cards can be shuffled & the resulting deck would have never been in that order before. It doesn't mean that some higher being has made you stop shuffling at that particular point & it doesn't mean that the resulting cards dealt off to 'read' are there for any reason other than chance. And that is before we get into the realm of what the reader has been taught/researched on what tarot cards are supposed to mean, add onto that the influence of how they choose to interpret all the cards together & their connection with the other dealt out cards.
In my view it's as far out there as tea leaves, star signs, crystal balls & phrenology. I think telling someone what your interpretation of something which can very easily influence their life choices is dangerous ground. As I said, my opinion & I do appreciate your contribution to magic, I hope it's not taken personally but it seems tarot cards like Ouija boards were created as a game, nothing more.
Boris wrote:Tarot cards, as a tool of divination, began in the latter half of the 1700s - hardly what I would call ancient (particularly considering that ancient generally refers to any time before the fall of the Western Roman Empire or 476 AD).
mark lewis wrote:The death card often comes up and I rather like it when it does! It is actually a good card! It means the death of the old and the beginning of the new. The end of one cycle in a person's life and the start of a new cycle.
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