I know this is gonna sound really stupid but I have gone to a tarot card reading recently and had my fortune told, and now I am sad about it!! The lady was supposed to predict my love life for the next 7 year and apparently in the next 3 years I will be having tons of short term relationships until the 4th year I will meet someone who is an introvert and makes less money than I do...this relationship will last for a while until I am 32 then I will be confused about him, great!!! I know there is nothing I can do about all this but can someone please tell me tarot cards can't really predict future THIS far ahead? :-(
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I wish I could think like that ! but I have been to fortune tellers before and sometimes they do predict things right, makes me wonder about this lady (with the 7 year thing, but it was my first time visiting her). Man, hope I can manage to forget about what she said over time!!
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blaze
19 yrs ago
SS, if it consoles you: I've been to a tarot card reader who made several predictions about my life. All those relating to my career came true. However not those for my love life. For instance, I was supposed to have met the man I would marry by the end of last year- and I'm still very much single. So take such readings with a huge pinch of salt. Not everything that has been said will come true.
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Thanks guys you really made me feel slightly better.. but Im sure you imagine how it is, you go to a tarot card reader who is "supposed to be accurate" because they are recommended by a friend. I cannot help but be worried after I heard what she said. My mother makes more money than my father and I have seen the problems they've gone through and I really really wish that will not happen to me.
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I confess- I have fortuneteller phobia.
It's a dilemma- if you go to one, be prepared for a bad reading. If you know you can't take it, then don't go.
I know I can't take it, I'd obsess over it every day. So I never go to one.
When I was still in college, my friends and I met an Indian businessman while doing part time jobs. He was able to read palms 'somewhat'. Out of curiousity the 3 of us jokingly tested him. He accurately predicted that my friend was the eldest child, with only 1 sibling, with minimum 4 or more years younger than my friend . Said that my friend was a scrooge (really was) and a few other things.
When it came to my turn- he smirked but did not want to reveal much , other than say 'big disapppointment in my life, but not sure if it's in the past or to come". He did not reveal if it's a romantic disappointment or something else. Something which kept me very worried and puzzled for a long while.
Recently another close friend started a fortune teller craze. She found a 'very accurate' one and from her anecdotes, this guy sounded eerily accurate. He can even predict the year of death, IF you would like to know.
But it all comes up to "what's the point?". My mom thinks of it as a form of guidance. I call it a sealing of fate or self fulfiling prophecy.
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You can't seriously think these people know what they are talking about!
Don't worry about it, take everyday as it comes and make the most out of your life. Maybe think twice about going to have it done again.
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Guys, really thank you for all your advices.. I guess there is not much I can do about what the lady said so better just get on with life. I would probably never ever go back to a fortune teller again though.
Balzac: did you or your friends find that your tarot card reader accurate? Anything that actually happened that maybe made you believe (leading to the phobia)
Man, I am gonna try so hard to prove that this lady is wrong. Actually another friend of mine just told me that tarot cards cannot predict anything farther than one year, any of you have heard of that?
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blaze
19 yrs ago
You know, nothing is set in stone. One of my friends went to see a tarot card reader, who could see that she was having problems with her husband. It was predicted she would have an affair and indeed, at the point of the reading, she was flirting heavily with a man she was very attracted to. But she got so scared by the prediction that she made a conscious effort to distance herself from the guy. So the affair never happened (or at least that's what she tells us).
I was told that I'd quit my job by a certain month and that I'd worry about finances. In the end, I hung on to the job until I found another one.
Tarot cards probably tell us what our natural tendencies would drive us to do in a certain set of circumstances. But I think we still have a choice at the end of the day.
I was given a lot of details on who I'd marry by the way- down to his age, profession, race, personality etc. I was even told how long he'd court me for before popping the question and what kind of marriage we'd have. That totally freaked me out. The guy wasn't exactly my idea of how my Prince Charming would be like. And if everything turns out exactly as said, there'd no surprises left. Anyway, I'm taking what I've been told with a huge pinch of salt. If I believe the reader, I'd go out looking for this man- so the prediction would be self-fulfilling. There's no point really.
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SS- the examples I gave earlier were not tarot card readers.
One was an indian businessman who knew how to read palms.
The other is a chinese fortune teller who did calculations based on birthdates, and looked at palms and bone structure of your face. And, according to my friend he only does readings at night and seems to be talking to 'someone' (if you observe carefully, but it's hardly noticeable). This man says 30% of your fate is sealed, the rest changeable.
The chinese fortune teller told my friend, who was doing her masters localy at the time-that she would marry a foreign man, or a local man born overseas. Also gave details on his facial features. Estimated age of marriage, death estimation, wealth estimate.
six months after the prediction-my friend was given a scholarship to study overseas and we (her friends teased her that she's on her way to meet her overseas husband)
Lets look at it this way,
1) If it comes true, they'd say they predicted it
2) If it doesn't come true, they'd say that it's because you knew, that you managed to avoid it.
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ShazP
19 yrs ago
Several years ago... I went to a ' popular'tarot reader for fun & was told that I would be married in 1 year! I thought " not if I can help it"!!! was told a lot of other garbage...
Well, pleased to say I got married about 5 years after that & none of the other garbage came true either...phew!!
So, I can honestly say....tarot readers are not necessarily accurate.
Also, you do make your own future in many ways...I could have married the first idiot that year & made my tarot reading come true...but I chose not to & so made my tarot reader a fake!
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Thank you, THANK YOU!! I need to stop believing in that stuff. I am going to Spain in 2 days and will put all of this BS behind. But its really nice to hear that some others have done it before and they were told wrong fortunes.
FYI, I visited the tarot card readers on temple street...
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Tarot card readers cannot predict a year in advance, they cannot predict 10 minutes in advance, neither can palm readers, psychics, fortune tellers, or anyone else. Look, if they could, wouldn't the tsunami have been predicted, by SOMEBODY? And hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved. Wouldn't the recent Javanese earthquake have been predicted? Wouldn't EVERY future-teller be fabulously rich, and the stock markets and casinos and horse races be out of business? Sure they would.
These guys, however much they may actually believe it, cannot do what they say they do. Stop wasting your time and money on it, please. Don't be gullible.
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Also, look up something called 'cold reading'. It's basically the technique used by fortune tellers, psychics, mediums and stage magicians. They make an educated guess about the person, if it sounds vaguely relevent the person usually supplies any 'extra' info to fill in the gaps, and voila! You have an accurate 'hit'. Any misses are glossed over and the person goes away wowed by the magical powers of the fortune teller and a whole $$$ lot poorer.
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There is no free will for most, sorry. Hardly any free choice. No choices only forces. Choices of forces. You can technically avoid fate if you tak TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY which is too much to ask for most.
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