Subject: What are Tarots?
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Posted on: 2019-10-14 09:38:14 UTC
I've never done them, or even been read some cards, but I'm interested in what they're supposed to do. Are Tarot cards related to Zodiac stuff?
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Test-Test by
on 2019-10-08 15:30:30 UTC
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Finally made an account here, so I won't suddenly disappear come next month. =P
Howdy, y'all!
And, to make this a little more interactive - anyone do Tarots? Or, which Major/Minor Arcana do you think you would be?
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I do tarot. by
on 2019-10-14 22:17:12 UTC
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Of the Major Arcana, the two I'm most commonly associated with are the High Priestess and the Empress, for very different reasons. (The Lovers also comes up every now and again.)
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Tarot? by
on 2019-10-14 17:34:20 UTC
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Raven Firedragon (ie, Selene's creator) was kind of into them... I have vague memories of a reading that prominently featured the Tower, though I might be transcluding that from a book.
I actually own a Tarot set - not for the mystical or psychological* content, but because this particular set is Steampunk Tarot. They're very cool cards, even if most readings wind up as 'you're going to steal a zeppelin alongside a lady inventor-slash-adventurer'. Which frankly is my kind of destiny anyway.
*So which is it meant to be? I know the original idea was The Cards Show Your Fate, but the discussion I've seen tends to be more around 'use the cards to help lay out your thoughts'.
hS
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You're more or less right. by
on 2019-10-18 11:36:19 UTC
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Although tarot decks are also the ancestor of modern playing cards, so there's also that.
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I think the meaning varies by person by
on 2019-10-15 03:54:18 UTC
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For me, the few times I've gotten a reading from friends, I've seen it as, as I put it, "RNG-guided therapy". The cards are vague enough that you can use them as prompts to really go through your thinking about a situation and dig into emotional stuff.
There's definitely folks who take a more mystical approach to things though.
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What are Tarots? by
on 2019-10-14 09:38:14 UTC
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I've never done them, or even been read some cards, but I'm interested in what they're supposed to do. Are Tarot cards related to Zodiac stuff?
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Tarots! by
on 2019-10-14 16:29:49 UTC
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They're not related as far as I'm aware, though using Zodiac signs as a theme for a Tarot deck seems like something done on the regular.
I'm no expert myself, mind! |D
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So, I random-generated three Tarot cards... by
on 2019-10-12 09:07:58 UTC
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I got the Tower, the Ten of Wands and the King of Coins, in that order. So dramatic change, ambition and apparently something business-related. Seems rather vague, although I admit the ambition and dramatic change bits seem rather apt. In terms of personality-based arcana, I suppose that I fit best The Magician, The Devil, The Tower, Ace of Wands, Two of Coins, Five of Wands, Seven of Wands, Seven of Swords, Seven of Cups, Ten of Wands, Knight of Wands and Knight of Swords, going off the TvTropes descriptions.