Using the Tarot cards for divination is one of the more profane uses for the cards. They aren't meant for divination, the meanings withing the artwork of the cards is very specific and outlines a path to spiritual growth and perfection. Before continuing on your search through the cards I suggest that you read some real books on their meaning and understand the symbolism involved in them.

Those that think the occult is all dark are severely misinformed, there is nothing malevolent in 90% of all occult teachings and philosophies. It is meant as a personal path to spiritual growth, enlightenment and eventual understanding of the universe.

Tarot cards will not summon demons to your house. The worse that will happen by using them for divination is that you will completely miss their true purpose and the centuries of knowledge packed into them, knowledge which had to be kept from the profane and religious until very recently.

If you wish to learn then you must have courage

Tarot cards are not mysterious... Your sub-concious is all knowing and all powerfull. The Tarot cards are simply a tool used to communicate with your sub-concious. If strange things started happening perhaps you are more in tune with spiritual things tham you thought? Your extended use of Tarot cards (I'm picking you don't have a spirit guide to protect you or haven't contacted them) could have brought you to the attention of spiritual beings or your focus on spiritual things could could have heighted your perception of what was happening around you. Perhaps you yourself had a direct involvement in these strange things occuring.
Do what you feel is right. If you are ok with doing Tarot again than by all means do it.

Trust yourself.

I believe that tarot and Ouija are bad.

My advice would be to stay away from both.

If bad things happen as a result of using either of these, they are caused by bad spirits

I've been reading cards for 40 years, and have never experienced anything paranormal in connection with my cards. A Tarot deck is a tool that a person can use to channel their brain's astounding ability to calculate linear trajectories involving specific events as they naturally develop along lines of progression. The best example of the human brain's capacity for linear trajectory calculation is a baseball outfielder tracking a flyball as he runs to ensure that his glove will intersect that ball's linear trajectory before it intersects with the ground. It may seem simple to most of us, but the calculations that the outfielder's brain is making, as the ongoing linear trajectories of the fielder's body and the ball itself change and shift in relative association from split instant to split instant until the two collide and the ball rests inside the fielder's glove, are whithering. If you had to program that entire episode, you'd be surpised at how complicated it is to do so, and that's from 3rd party perspective. Calculating it as you're dynamically affecting it, as one of the principles involved, is really complicated. And yet, the human brain does this without breaking a sweat.

When examining a progressive event trajectory (if I continue in this manner of dealing with our relationship, what can I expect to see develop between me and my wife?) the human brain is actually just as capable, but due to the personal and emotional investment we each have in our own daily lives, it's unlikely that any one of us has the true capacity for intellectual detachment when engaging in such an examination. This is what the Tarot was designed to help with - stepping between the seeker and the seeker's prejudices, as the ongoing event trajectory in question is examined, so as to provide that disinterested outside view of how that progression is progressing.

And the only questions that actually work with a Tarot reading are "trajectory questions", like "If I pursue this specific course of action, what will be the likely result?". The cards are simply helping your brain channel its capacity for calculation, and through the same bizarre ability that allows Savants to count cards at a blackjack table, your brain (if you do it right, and have the understanding that this is what's happening) shuffles the question "into the cards" and arranges the right cards to mix toward the right positions in the reading. It helps that there are several cards that will be suitable in any given position to suggest the same overall response, since exact card migration to the appropriate layout position, by way of a few quick shuffles, would really be a supernatural feat. In short, a good reader makes a successful reading, and a reading can be improperly interpreted a lot easier that you might imagine.

Still, there are no spirits involved in Tarot readings. Just two people (or one, in some cases) and the human brain's capacity for both precise calculations and precision in revealing those calculations by way of moving cards from here to there by way of having the hands manually shuffling them. This is why many really experienced readers require the seeker to spread out the cards, face up, and "photograph them" before gathering them up and shuffling their question into them. After all, no one can read a card if it's turned away from them, and what's being sought is clarity.

If your house is haunted, it's not the cards. Maybe it's how you're trying to use the cards, and what you're inviting in as you project that very clear and compelling intent? The human mind is much more of a beacon than a deck of cards, regardless of what's printed on those cards.

Let this thread be a warning to anyone willing to accept a free tarot reading by any witch on ATS or other place.

That witch craft is a sin against God and you are making your self vulnerable to attack when you do that.

Witchcraft is also forbidden in The Holy Bible.

Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
Let this thread be a warning to anyone willing to accept a free tarot reading by any witch on ATS or other place.

That witch craft is a sin against God and you are making your self vulnerable to attack when you do that.

Witchcraft is also forbidden in The Holy Bible.

Sorry my friend you seem to be mistaken... Tarot cards are not evil they are simply a tool used to communicate with the subconcious.

They are neither good nor bad just a tool. Much like a computer if you put garbage into them you will get garbage out of them.

Think of it as being not entirely different from the isrealites casting lots to devide up the promised land.

Wow, there is a lot of very good insights about Tarot in this thread!

I read Tarot for several years,
until I got to a point where I really did not need them anymore as they are just a tool.

I still do use them on occasion, but my deck was destroyed after 13 years worth of use.
I have never gotten another deck that felt "special" to me, and as anyone who reads Tarot knows, your deck is YOUR deck. Once it is tuned into your vibrations, it becomes almost magical.

One of these days I will go to a store somewhere and get all touchy feely with their tarot decks until I find the right one.

A lot of people have misconceptions of what Tarot really is. You can use them for "fortune telling", and in the right hands they work very well, however, that IS NOT what Tarot is for.

Tarot is a spiritual journey. It begins with card #0, The fool, who is stepping off into the unknown and beginning his spiritual journey, and ends with # XXI The World. All of these cards are the journey of the mystic.

The idea is to start with # 0 The fool,
and to meditate on this card, its meaning and symbols, and then after a period of time you go to card # I, and meditate on that card, all the way through card # 21 The World.

In studying such information, you begin to lift the curtain between worlds as is explained in card # 2, The High Priestess.

The lessons of the Tarot are stored in the sub-conscious mind and as one begins to open their sub-conscious up spiritually, the super-conscious mind begins to filter through as well.
At least this is how it began to work for me.

Dangerous?

It depends on what your belief system is.
If truly used the way they are intended, and if you get the meanings, symbols, and sub-conscious messages, I see nothing dangerous at all, only self-exploration on a mystical level.

Its a fable devised by traveling fairs in the 18th century. They used tricks like this and many others to con money from people. They still use these same tricks all over the world today and people still fall for it. Please wake up and stop. Thinking it is true,
Fools are as fools do.