Lareia
Ah, but what if the cards you "needed" simply happened to be distributed equally throught the deck?
Jokes aside, I think there's room for both positions, and I don't mean that as in "I don't agree, but I respect your opinion", but as the possibility that both are valid, functioning ways.
I'm still in the process of nailing down how exactly I think tarot works, so I'll use spiritual stances I've seen here and there.
Say that a reader invokes a higher conscience, a spirit guide maybe, and that that conscience influences which cards are drawn in some way- that's not an assertion that can be proven, but let's just accept it for now.
I assume you do no such thing- I'm guessing you shuffle the cards until you feel they're randomised enough and then draw. Lacking the non-randomising factor- the higher consciousness- the cards you draw will be random.
What I'm trying to say here is that I see it as perfectly possible that the cards drawn are random for one person, but not for another. Of course, nobody is obligated to believe in the non-randomising factor. It's currently not possibly to prove or disprove it, rendering it a matter of belief. But as someone who does believe in matters like this, for various reasons, it's not difficult to reconcile different ways of readings, nor to accept them all as equally valid. People find the reading style that works best for them and that's a good thing.
Rambling aside, my own daily draws strongly gravitate towards certain groups of card. Maybe I should do a chi square test too. It would be interesting to see for sure.
Jokes aside, I think there's room for both positions, and I don't mean that as in "I don't agree, but I respect your opinion", but as the possibility that both are valid, functioning ways.
I'm still in the process of nailing down how exactly I think tarot works, so I'll use spiritual stances I've seen here and there.
Say that a reader invokes a higher conscience, a spirit guide maybe, and that that conscience influences which cards are drawn in some way- that's not an assertion that can be proven, but let's just accept it for now.
I assume you do no such thing- I'm guessing you shuffle the cards until you feel they're randomised enough and then draw. Lacking the non-randomising factor- the higher consciousness- the cards you draw will be random.
What I'm trying to say here is that I see it as perfectly possible that the cards drawn are random for one person, but not for another. Of course, nobody is obligated to believe in the non-randomising factor. It's currently not possibly to prove or disprove it, rendering it a matter of belief. But as someone who does believe in matters like this, for various reasons, it's not difficult to reconcile different ways of readings, nor to accept them all as equally valid. People find the reading style that works best for them and that's a good thing.
Rambling aside, my own daily draws strongly gravitate towards certain groups of card. Maybe I should do a chi square test too. It would be interesting to see for sure.