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SongDeva said:For once and for all, people, Tarot is for girls.
Hmm, I know a few single men in a local coffee shop who were accosted by someone wanting to read for them who would refute that comment
Dan
SongDeva said:For once and for all, people, Tarot is for girls.
Originally posted by Mesara
They have the interest, and the knowledge of the tarot, they just don't seem to enjoy applying it to anything other than discussions. They love to come with me to look at new decks and stuff, but as far as I can tell neither of them has ever read their cards. Their decks are more like collectors items that they take out and admire and show off, then put back in their honored place on the shelf or whatever. [/B]
ferrous said:Is tarot a woman's domain?
Originally posted by DarkElectric I think it's merely a question of the information concerning what tarot is about becoming common knowledge.
gyntista said:That assumes there is some common agreement concerning "what tarot is about", and that it is actually commonly accessible, even to the group of people who claim to know what Tarot is about.
Perhaps the attraction people have to Tarot really isn't about the things they claim at all. Maybe it is more like the ideas articulated here:
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People may claim they are looking for an answer or the answer or even the truth, but generally, as we see in politics and religion, they are looking for someone, or something (like Tarot), to tell them eveything'll be alright.
TheLovers2 said:And I say that Tarot is about whatever a person chooses for it to be about.
TheLovers2 said:There is no patent on "what Tarot is or isn't,"
TheLovers2 said:...and there are so many opinions...
TheLovers2 said:, and ways to use the Tarot that I, personally, don't feel that any one of them is a DEFINITE.
TheLovers2 said:It is up to the individual.
TheLovers2 said:I appreciate the "opinions" of people on all sorts of things, but, it's different when someone speaks as though they are the "all-out authority on what is or isn't and what others should or shouldn't be
doing.
TheLovers2 said:If people work the Tarot to get hope, what is that to you?
TheLovers2 said:Do as you will. Let them seek the answers their way. If some people are looking to be told things will be alright, then TO ME that's fine, it's up to them.
TheLovers2 said:But, I've found from reading these Threads and communicating with various people that they do want answers, but, they are also willing to look at the (sometimes hard) questions posed them
TheLovers2 said:...they don't need ANYONE'S approval or permission to do it.
telcontar said:First: this discussion has gotten quite off topic, I think. The topic is till: Is Tarot a women's domain[\b] And not and what other absurd things you can do with a Tarot-deck APART from giving it to a man
telcontar said:Second: One of the unspoken rules (or are they in fact written dwon somewhere!?) is to RESPECT the opinions of others. If you just want to spread your negative mood I'd ask you to do this somwhere else.
telcontar said:Sentences like "Here is a question for you then---isn't it possible that you do not know enough about Tarot to speak authoritatively about the question of authority in Tarot?" and some others in your post are no good discussion style and do nothing at all to improve mutual understanding. They are just a trick below the belt to make the other feel small and unimportant.
telcontar said:As I see it, TheLovers2 has expressed a much more mature point of view than yours and has certainly not earned to attacked in this way.
telcontar said:In your profile, you claim you are "learning the Tarot"- how do you suppose to learn
telcontar said:without a little respect of the perspectives of others? I don't say, one of you is right and the other is wrong, I just request a little respect for each other and the third party, the ones you're talking about. I'm not a big friend of "Tarot for fun", myself, BUT:
telcontar said:Even people who do it for fun are bound to stumble about some truths doing the Tarot. I think the Tarot needs neither crusaders nor missionaries to make itself understood.
telcontar said:- The origins of Tarot are quite obscure. The possibility that it was invented for GAMBLING first cannot be shrugged off completely- so why not still "gamble" with it one way or the other?
telcontar said:- YOU are the one claiming to know the truth and judging about others- not them about you
telcontar said:, have you realized this?
telcontar said:If someone told me, Tarot was from Mars, I'd say, "ah, interesting, why do you think so? Why not from Venus?" and maybe we'd both learn something from our conversation.
telcontar said:- Hurting people is never a good way to make them realize something.
telcontar said:Making the world a better place.
telcontar said:Tarot is NOT a women's domain...Tarot is a tool.