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.
The way I see it, it’s just a form of therapy. People don’t walk in and sit silently, they talk about their problems and get vague reassurance that everything is going to be alright - or occasional advice when they’re way out of bounds
I don’t think it’s unethical to do that, so long as you operate in good faith with good intentions
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.
And honestly I think I’ve gotten more out of the spiritual ritual aspect too than meditating or anything more technical / modern. It almost feels like my brain is just better geared to process information in that format and doing the technical stuff was like trying to run code through an emulator / compatibility layer. I can do it well enough, but it’s much easier, more efficient, and stable to just run the program natively.
For me, meditation is basically useless for anything outside of self diagnostic work. I can use it to figure out where a pain is coming from or how my guts feel but anything more emotional needs more prompting.
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.
The way I see it, it’s just a form of therapy. People don’t walk in and sit silently, they talk about their problems and get vague reassurance that everything is going to be alright - or occasional advice when they’re way out of bounds
I don’t think it’s unethical to do that, so long as you operate in good faith with good intentions
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.
And honestly I think I’ve gotten more out of the spiritual ritual aspect too than meditating or anything more technical / modern. It almost feels like my brain is just better geared to process information in that format and doing the technical stuff was like trying to run code through an emulator / compatibility layer. I can do it well enough, but it’s much easier, more efficient, and stable to just run the program natively.
For me, meditation is basically useless for anything outside of self diagnostic work. I can use it to figure out where a pain is coming from or how my guts feel but anything more emotional needs more prompting.