Zephyros
I think someone could make a mint selling "Tarot moisturizer" for use after readings in order to counteract their harmful effects to the skin.
Would You Continue To Read Tarot Even If It Aged You?
tarotbear
I like it! donnalee
If it, or something else other than being alive, took years off my life, HELL NO: I'd quit right away, since I would not see the value of something other than a superhelpful thing--like saving someone else's life literally--as being worth it. My perspective is mostly Tibetan Buddhist, where it's considered that the more enlightened you get each lifetime the easier it is to pass away, to be born into the next life, and to benefit beings, so it would not make sense for me personally to waste lifeforce unless it genuinely saved the life of others--
If it 'merely' made me look like crap and undid all the organic facecreams I use, then HELL NO too!
If it 'merely' made me look like crap and undid all the organic facecreams I use, then HELL NO too!
donnalee
Id love to know the age range of the various respondents and if that affected our choices: I'm in the 'older than some' category, and may have answered differently if I had been much younger...
Amanda
You don't think tarot reading can be "life saving"?
I would think even the "smallest" piece of information could potentially change a life for the better.
I'm 28. I probably look much older in my picture... maybe, 33-35 I would guess? I don't really know.. but I've always had comments that I looked older than my age.
Annabelle
It was easy enough for me to answer that I'd read only once in a while, as that's about how often I read tarot anyway .
.MandMaud
What a busy thread this has become. I last posted "1 day ago" and that's reams ago!
It's a bit like stretch marks. I'm very fond of mine because they are part of my sons' coming into existence.
Looking younger than we are runs in my family; a nuisance when you're 16 but perhaps nicer when you're 76. I never felt I was taken seriously (at work etc) until I turned 30.
I'm not entirely immune to liking to look young. When I had a phase of walking with my stick, I was disappointed that NO ONE exclaimed how young I was for that.
I'm intrigued how many of us have grown up with tarot etc, and how many are the only people in our families to know much about it... sounds like a new chat thread!
In fact I took you for quite a bit older than you are just from your tone of voice and manner in your posts. Some people just have that... my youngest son for example. He can easily pass as 20+ on the phone but he's 14. Long before I had kids, I knew a ten-year-old I could have conversations with as an equal and she astonished me; and also a twelve-year-old who was still very much child. That doesn't astonish me now I know better.
Anyway, facially I'd struggle to tell a mid-20s from a mid-30s. With men it's even harder, many could be anything from 25 to 55. But even with women it's not easy until you hear what they choose to talk about.
Ooh, you are clever. I like your reasoning.
I have Sun in Leo too, and I have to admit, vanity was the only reason I cared what I ate in days of yore - whether I'd look fatter. Some time between 20 and 40 that changed and began to prioritise health... maybe when I began to realise I wouldn't live forever, and the wish to live forever got stronger?If there was real scientific proof that it physically aged you I would give up the Tarot for sure. Same reason why I gave up smoking 15 years ago; I didn't care about the fact that it could kill me, I'm just vain (I'm a Leo, what can I say?)
this is so good to hear. I never had a problem with looking older - I'm sure that living with my grandmother until I was 18 helped with that - and I feel really sorry for people whose worth hangs on it. Mind you, I do have a problem with looking "not as I need to look" but it's not about ageing.This thread was very good for me. To see that not everyone feels this way about looks and aging especially when it comes to divining. Very comforting to say the least.
It's a bit like stretch marks. I'm very fond of mine because they are part of my sons' coming into existence.
Looking younger than we are runs in my family; a nuisance when you're 16 but perhaps nicer when you're 76. I never felt I was taken seriously (at work etc) until I turned 30.
LOL, that's happened to me since I was about 40. But I don't "look down" on thm as cutiecutie assumed... you see the very language we use gives away the assumptions we live wtih...When I see middle aged people (who are actually my age) I forget that I'm the same age as them, and I think "Gee, they're old."
I'm not entirely immune to liking to look young. When I had a phase of walking with my stick, I was disappointed that NO ONE exclaimed how young I was for that.
That. Is. Shocking.
Driving us nuts is what mothers are for, isn't it? At least that's what I tell my sons.So, going by my mother, I'd say divining does the opposite. She acts more like she is in her 60s then 87, except for the fact that she slightly forgetful (and she drives me nuts)
I'm intrigued how many of us have grown up with tarot etc, and how many are the only people in our families to know much about it... sounds like a new chat thread!
I reckon that's the same as I was saying about being taken seriously, or rather not being in my 20s. You have the air of someone who'd get taken seriously.
In fact I took you for quite a bit older than you are just from your tone of voice and manner in your posts. Some people just have that... my youngest son for example. He can easily pass as 20+ on the phone but he's 14. Long before I had kids, I knew a ten-year-old I could have conversations with as an equal and she astonished me; and also a twelve-year-old who was still very much child. That doesn't astonish me now I know better.Anyway, facially I'd struggle to tell a mid-20s from a mid-30s. With men it's even harder, many could be anything from 25 to 55. But even with women it's not easy until you hear what they choose to talk about.
Holly doll
Oh this poll & its replies is hilarious!! I love it!!!
It's not reading that ages you, it's the loved ones or clients who can give you grey hairs!!!
Seriously though, there's no way I'd stop reading! IMO - if you "think or act old" that's the way to age...
It's not reading that ages you, it's the loved ones or clients who can give you grey hairs!!!
Seriously though, there's no way I'd stop reading! IMO - if you "think or act old" that's the way to age...
Amanda
I reckon that's the same as I was saying about being taken seriously, or rather not being in my 20s. You have the air of someone who'd get taken seriously.
I'll take that as a compliment, thanks.
However, now that I think of it... I have been reading tarot for pretty much half my life... perhaps it has aged me!
(Reading half my life = 14 years, and looking approximately 7 years older? Hmm..)But... I think it's like you say, some just have that quality, and it probably has more to do with me being a little bit 'country'. I was begging for chores as a kid to earn cash. I have a tendency to do things the 'hard' way too, I think, and that's probably throwing some more years onto me.
So, if anything really, it's the stress of life that is aging me!MandMaud
Meant as such.I'll take that as a compliment, thanks.
However, now that I think of it... I have been reading tarot for pretty much half my life... perhaps it has aged me!
(Reading half my life = 14 years, and looking approximately 7 years older? Hmm..)But... I think it's like you say, some just have that quality, and it probably has more to do with me being a little bit 'country'. I was begging for chores as a kid to earn cash. I have a tendency to do things the 'hard' way too, I think, and that's probably throwing some more years onto me.
So, if anything really, it's the stress of life that is aging me![/QUOTE]I naturally do things the hard way too, and as I say I look younger than I am. (I've had a whole table of people astonished that I was old enough to have children yet, and my eldest was just hitting his teens!) But coming across older may be something to do with a sense of responsibility. Heaven knows I'm still working on that.
