Here are Sonia Chouette’s fees, by the way. ![]() But if is to do that, shouldn’t we stop using the traditional decks used for prediction and make new decks with drawings and words inspired by modern psychology? What about Rorshach cards? Here we see the usual excuse: it can be used for prediction, but the cards can also prompt you to tell stories or call up other ideas. “It’s also used for brainstorming, or storytelling, or writing or prompts.” “The biggest misconception is that tarot is only used for prediction,” Antenucci says. Neither is wrong each reflects the person drawing the card. But someone who hates winter is going to have a decidedly different visceral reaction. One person might pull a snowstorm card and be delighted - they love winter and snowstorms. Imagine a deck focused on weather conditions across the four seasons. ![]() That could be called “confirmation bias.” You read things the way you want them to be. “Every picture is going to strike every person differently, so there’s a lot that can happen across a whole spectrum of personalities,” she says. ![]() While decks usually come with guidebooks to help users understand the potential meanings of each card, Antenucci encourages people to go with their instincts when they pull specific cards. What you’re doing is recognizing the patterns of something.” When you’re seeing the cards, all those pictures together, it opens up different patterns. “ Sonia Choquette said that we should call intuition ‘pattern recognition,'” Antenucci says. Paul, Minnesota-based tarot reader in her sixties, founder of the Twin Cities Tarot Collective and the author of two books, “ Psychic Tarot” and “Tarot Rituals.” She sees tarot cards as being a language of imagery. Beginning by focusing on a question is a good idea, even something simple like “What will this week be like?” Then draw a single card and see what it might tell you. People can read tarot cards for themselves or work with an experienced tarot reader. I’ll be brief and just quote some of the article’s waffling. ![]() It’s psychology, Jake! I wonder why more psychologists haven’t hit on tarot cards as a professional aid! Still, the article says that prediction is part of what tarot can do-but there’s so much more!Īs it turns out, tarot is not just for prediction but to stimulate your mind and explore possibilities you haven’t realized. In other words, as all these articles about tarot in the liberal press maintain, it can be a device for getting you to think about your life and ponder future behaviors. Of course PBS can’t just say that tarot cards flat-out can predict the future, for its listeners and readers are more sophisticated than that. And what it has put out is a piece promoting the virtues of tarot cards (National Public Radio has done the same thing.) The free article is below click the screenshot to read. This part-government sponsorship means that taxpayers like me are funding what nextavenue puts out. As public media’s first and only national publication for older adults, we are dedicated to covering the issues that matter most as we age.Īnd this logo is at the bottom of today’s article, which is about something that doesn’t matter more when we age: Next Avenue is a nonprofit, digital journalism publication produced by Twin Cities PBS (TPT). The nextavenue site is actually an arm of the Public Broadcasting Service, 15% (or more) of which is funded by the taxpayers via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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