Is Tarot prediction or self-fulfilling prophecy?
This is an issue I have often wondered about so far as Tarot reading is concerned. To the extent where, later, they act out the details of the reading they have been given, how much power does the reader have to subconsciously affect the querent?
Under normal circumstances,The process of Tarot reading is a very intimate one, both parties are receptive and open at a psychic level. This being so, any information imparted during the reading period will infiltrate quite deeply into the mind of the querent. It is, therefore, possible that afterward the querent will behave in accordance with the reading given, thereby creating the events they were told would take place.
This would certainly be very influential when you do the sort of reading where you tell a person that they will undertake a course of action they had never previously contemplated. Most experienced tarot readers will have, on many occasions, predicted things in readings that the querent rejects as ‘something I have never even considered’. But of course they are bound to consider it once the idea is there aren’t they?
Looking back over my own experiences, I recall the querent who believed she wasn’t ‘clever enough’ to undertake extended study. Her reading indicated subsequent success ad dedicated work. Last year, She left University with degree in hand. She said that reading is the thing that really made her start seriously considering study…so…in this case,self-fulfilling prophecy.
A tarot reader’s words can surface in a querent’s mind at the most unlikely times. With unpredictable consequences. About what we say to our querents-they are, in some ways, at our mercy,we have a special obligation to be very thoughtful. Most specifically we need to be sure to temper every single reading we give with love, respect and compassion. Peoples’ lives can be changed literally by reading for them.
It means that to leave the querent feeling as positive and hopeful as possible ,we have a duty to attempt, no matter what we find in a reading.
