Do tarot cards work?
Do tarot card readings work?
Yes they do. But, and this is a huge but, they only work if they are used by an experienced expert who has done many readings before and has a knack of doing them, being a good listener and possesses all of the other skills of a good clairvoyant. Unfortunately now there is this longing to get something for nothing and most of my clients come running to me in tears or moaning about some person they went to before who let them down by predicting and promising things that never happened. In a lot of these cases the "tarot card reading" was free or very cheap - but this is not the point - the point is that it upset them, it raised their hopes, it gave them a false idea of the future, and this is all wrong. Many of these people do not know much about these things, do not bother to find out or research the subject and just trust anyone who claims to be able to do the tarot cards instantly because it saves them having to think and be more careful
One thing people forget is what the tarot can actually achieve. This idea that they can tell you who you will meet and marry, or who you will sleep with next, or when you will have a baby and whether it will be a boy or girl, are very simplistic and totally unrealistic. You go to a fortune teller if fortune telling is your think because a genuine reputable tarot card reader will not touch customers who want out and out solid gold cast iron guarantees with fortune telling. Why? Because it is unrealistic. There is no way that someone can say you will meet a guy and you will marry him because if you blow things with this guy when you date him, in all different ways, maybe by being difficult or demanding, he will not want to propose to you. And if you ever end up engaged to him where you are supposedly going to get married one or the other of you could call it off because of the other person's lack of good behaviour or terrible behaviour. How you behave towards each other is dictated by the goings on between the two of you and constantly change. If you wanted to marry him and then found out some terrible secret about him - whether this is through the tarot cards and cheap psychic email readings or a friend - you would probably be wise to cancel the whole thing. But going to ask a clairvoyant medium if you will cancel is daft, only you can decide that, they can tell you how things are and advise and then it is down to you which you prefer to do. You cannot expect tarot cards to make your decisions for you nor to somehow turn back the clock if you treat someone badly and lose them. Use the tarot as a navigation tool, like a compass, where it tells you to turn left for this or turn right for that, whatever it tells you is true and accurate but you decide what you want to act upon.
Some clients go to fortune tellers, psychics, mediums, clairvoyants, astrologers, palmists, crystal ball gazers, asking them when their husband will die because they are bored with him and hate him and want to be without him. It would make more sense and be much nicer to end the marriage and become separated and then divorce rather than expect someone to die so that you can have less inconvenience and hassle. But if you asked the tarot card reader come psychic if you will leave him how could they know - if you have not decided yet? You need to decide this for yourself as it is you that lives with the consequences of your choices.
Remember too that many so called tarot card readers, palmists, fortune tellers, clairvoyants, mediums, astrologers etc are fakes, pure and simple, with no skills or abilities whatsoever. In their hands the tarot cards will not work. There are a lot of fakes out there who have a boring empty life unless they can go around bragging of knowing all of these things about people, they want to tell the World how clever they are as a reader, they would do so called tarot card readings for free rather than watch television, read a book, or do a normal job, because they get obsessed with it all and how important it makes them feel when they have people hang on their every word. These people are not tarot card readers or psychics anymore than the woman who sings at karaoke a lot is a professional singer. Or the guy who works at a local greasy spoon joint is really an actor.
Beth Shepherd is a psychic clairvoyant, relationship expert, an advice columnist and a therapist.