I’ve gotten suuuper into introspective / therapeutic tarot reading and in my related research I’ve come across a bunch of techniques used by people who use them performatively as a divinatory illusion. The funniest part is if I was going to do it therapeutically for another person I would probably do all the same things I’d just be honest that that was what I was doing. Kinda like a ritualistic / spiritually themed rorschach test.
This is exactly how I use tarot! It’s not a magical technique of divination, it’s a collection of targeted vagueries that help your brain frame a concept in a way you wouldn’t naturally conceive. You make the answers, tarot is just the conceptual equivalent of picking up an object and inspecting it to figure out what it is.
Barnum Statement.
I’ve gotten suuuper into introspective / therapeutic tarot reading and in my related research I’ve come across a bunch of techniques used by people who use them performatively as a divinatory illusion. The funniest part is if I was going to do it therapeutically for another person I would probably do all the same things I’d just be honest that that was what I was doing. Kinda like a ritualistic / spiritually themed rorschach test.
This is exactly how I use tarot! It’s not a magical technique of divination, it’s a collection of targeted vagueries that help your brain frame a concept in a way you wouldn’t naturally conceive. You make the answers, tarot is just the conceptual equivalent of picking up an object and inspecting it to figure out what it is.