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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Your PM:

"i...have a...concern--re: tarot cards. i have 4 decks (rider-waite, sasha fenton's, spanish-english, fantasy). i went into a 'tarot phase' some months ago and got them. i first got the fantasy deck--fancy, but it paved the way for me to explore tarot. 2nd is the spanish-english deck, which for some reasons, i get a scary vibe. 3rd is sasha fenton's deck, which i find friendly. and lastly, the rider-waite deck, which upon opening, i sensed anger, like literally--the cards are angry and mean.

"months have passed, my interest on tarot diminished. i kept them away. i was wondering--what am i doing? is it okay? is there a sort of 'bad luck' for doing it? part of me thinks of getting rid of them, part of me says no as i have a history of doing things impulsively like getting rid of things and regretting them later. what's the best thing to do about them? why did my interest in tarot fade?

"thank you sir."


My reply:

Hi ___________!

Tarot cards are mere springboards for telling stories. A spread will tell one story, reshuffling them will tell another. All of those stories come from your intuition. There is nothing wrong with them, they are simply works of pop art. On a psychological level they function like projective techniques, like the old Thematic Apperception Test and Rorschach's Inkblots, if you allow the querent, rather than yourself, to read the stories themselves.

I myself have eight decks or so. I used to have a hundred but eventually sold or gave away the decks I didn't feel like using. Keep yours because they easily go out of print and out of stock, and you can sell them at high prices to others when they become collectibles.

There is no such thing as a "Tarot phase". You pick up interest in them, as you would in any plaything or book, get tired of it later, and in the future may or may not renew or rekindle your interest in them.

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