This was meant for Ramona, ........ Are there not laws to protect our elderly parents who are adult, but they lack the mental ability or because of health issues, they are unable to see, they are being defrauded?  Dont we have cyber bullying laws to prevent attacks? "Your child is dead Mrs Miller" dead I say,  DEAD DEAD DEAD   The poor distraught mother, was seeking comfort, not hope shattering, bullying bullshite. Why couldnt the psychic heal the wound in the poor womans heart. Instead "shes DEAD Mrs Miller" now why dont you go away and grieve some more, until you cant take it any more and you join her".

I hated the movie "Ghost" because it perpetuated the LIE and promoted the seeking of Spirit mediums, who can be used by the demons; who enjoy nothing better, than messing with us humans.

"You're going on a trip"..... Never mind it may be years from now, but the fortune  teller was correct........ Much like Nostradamus; throw enough BS on the walls and some is bound to stick.

I have some fragments of a blog with which I am tinkering about, in part, my experience reading tarot cards for friends.  I had started with some friend back toward the end of my college days bringing a tarot card deck to the bar a group of us were hanging out in. At first, the readings were merely a kind of parlor game, the kind of one played by liberal arts majors slumming it in a dive bar, who treated everything with a post-post-modern facetiousness (something about the laugh laughing at the laugh laughing).  

But for a few of us, the readings turned into a sort of therapy session. It becomes impossible for it not to when one actually wants to take the comments seriously.  None of us would say that we actually believed the cards were a source of divination, or that it provided a way for the forces of whatever to answer an inquiry.

Yet when the reader tells the inquirer that 2 of Swords is in the "conscious influence" spot of the spread, which suggests that the inquirer is primarily focused on or one's thoughts are being primarily influnced by blocked emotions and a sense of stalemate, the inquirer inevitably finds his or herself asking "is that true?"  Or "In what way is true, and not true?"

A tarot reading between friends (even if some of them are majoring in clinical therapy of some sort) is not the same thing as therapy.  The therapeutic relationship is unique, in many ways it is one of the most unique of social relationships.  But for a brief moment, an individual contemplating the topic of "just what is it that is pre-occupying my consciousness (as well as the subconscious, the forces at work on one's self from the outside, etc)?" is pretty much the same regardless of whether that individual is in a therapy session or having a tarot reading.

The possibility of positive consequences of such an act of reflection are there in both situations.  Usually the people I did readings for came away stating that situation(s) that were bothering them were more clear, both in clarity about the situation and clarity about the best way forward. 

With that said, if one does enough readings, there are way too many times the interpretation of the cards come up damn near perfectly aligned with what the inquirer's actual situation, and any suggestions to make the best of the situation appear to be the best path (i.e. if one's therapist had made the suggestion, people would generally agree that the therapist had been right on the money).

Moreover, doing readings for particular individual multiple times, the cards had an eerie way of giving each individual a consistent reading over time that reflected the individual's changing situation.

So while no one would claim that he or she actually believed in the tarot cards, we all respected the cards. Which was a way of saying we weren't going to claim there were no unknown forces at work, forces that could help illuminate the way to getting closer to a good life.