There is a difference between something that is
possible and something that is
probable. I talk with each querent according to my intuition, but I avoid absolutes regarding future events. If a desirable outcome is shown, I might say: "This looks good", and encourage them to further pursue their course of action (thus making the outcome even more likely!). If an outcome doesn't look so good, I will try to explore ways how they can modify it for the better.
From the onset, my readings focus rather on finding the most recommendable course for action than on predicting what is allegedly bound to happen.
"Always in motion the future is."
Yoda
What we decide to do and - I can't emphasize this enough - the attitudes that we adopt will indeed determine the course that events take to a high degree. To become more aware of how we are essentially creating our own realties and have more conscious choice regarding it, therein lies the true potential of the Tarot.
Your approach is certainly very sensible, Michael, but...if we really want to look at things that way, EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING IS PROBABLE, possible, likely , in at least one of the many parallel universes we are surrounded by or live in ! It's pure anarchy ! You know what you just reminded me of...? Years ago, I had fallen in love with a guy who seemed to also like me, but I wasn't sure. I asked a tarot reader I knew, who of course I had reason to believe was good, if there were any chances that he liked me too, and that there might be something between us....she said yes, he might be interested, but I would have to make the first move, because he wasn't going to....it seemed a reasonable reading of the situation, and I didn't have a problem making the first move, as I also had a feeling he liked me...and eventually, something did happen between us....a skeptic might say now, well, did you really need tarot, or magic, or the supernatural, or just the law of probabilities to know that a healthy young guy wouldn't say no to a pretty girl who made a clear move on him ???
Things then changed when our " relationship " (if you can call it that ! ) moved forward, amid many difficulties...I went back to that tarot reader, and she said, again, that yes, with him, I would find stability, a home, a family, I just had to persevere....of course it never happened....and it turned out, later on, that there were good reasons why it COULD NEVER have happened....now, how come tarot got it right the first time, but not the second ? Is it maybe because in the first case, that reader was dealing with the law of probabilities ( nice girl-young guy-equal sex) whereas in the second case, she was dealing with something much less likely to happen -marriage, family, and so on...?
Do you get my point ???
God I hope you do, 'cause it's late and I'm tired.....
PS Michael, I WILL get back to you on that chart....