I guess the question I have is -skeptical of what?
I am a newbie, 2 months into this journey. The Tarot came crashing into my life from outta some crazy left field who knows where...2 months in and it's been a life altering experience.
But I have no definitive ideas on how it works. Am I hooking up with a guardian angel? Spirit? Plugging into the Jungian collective unconsciousness? I have no idea. I've also had many other rather profound and unexplainable experiences in my life, I've studied mediumship and giving psychic readings, past life regression, deep meditation, automatic writing...all kinds of things...but the skeptic in me always keeps me from defining what is going on...I have no idea.
However, intuitively, I know exactly how it works...if that makes sense. Being a newbie I have only given maybe a dozen readings, and every reading seems to involve some conversation about how it works, what's going on...I just say that I haven't a clue. I'm probably more skeptical about what's going on with Tarot than anyone I will ever read for, including myself, but at the same time I know that there's something to it, something very deep and powerful, something that aligns neatly with all of my knowledge about esoteric subjects, as well as my knowledge of science, physics, psychology, etc.
But come on, when I got my first deck and was just kinda shuffling like crazy, laying out 3 cards.....shuffling like crazy....laying out 3 cards....i got the same 3 card spread twice in a row, and the 3rd time was 2 of same cards, and a very similar 3rd card. I pulled the same single card for a friend (a total skeptic) 3 times in a row. Throwing down the same 3 cards twice in a row has happened several times since then. I've thrown down a 5 card spread for a particular question, and then thrown 5 cards from another deck and gotten almost the same exact spread, 4 out of 5.
Something is going on here but I refuse to define it, and am totally skeptical of anyone who claims to know what is going on here, how the Tarot works.
What I do know is that about 2 weeks into this journey I had a very powerful epiphany about this Tarot thing...and that's all I really need to know, otherwise it's just a mystery and I don't worry about what people think, or for that matter what I think. Thinking and tarot are kind of mutually exclusive methinks.