JMI_Tarot
I would ask "does this ever happen to you" but I am pretty sure that it happens all the time to people who read Tarot. I am curious how it makes you feel and you handle it.
So, you are with friends or family or really any group, and someone finds out you are into Tarot and announces it and people find that amusing, "so you" or whatever and then you are asked to do readings. The thing is, although these people are probably actually interested and in a way fascinated by the prospect of having a tarot reading, it isn't something they "believe" in and they make that clear by the smirky way they ask, or a kind of superior or "I dare you" attitude.
I often feel like they are:
1. Hiding a secret desperation and trying not to show it to the others by treating it as a joke.
or
2. Just having a go at you. (Family usually)
or
3. Using you for entertainment, like a carnival Tarot reader from a movie.
I really wish I had the confidence to go with it and "do the thing" and maybe something interesting comes out of it, but I don't really and find the situation unpleasant.
The times I did do it it didn't go so well, people commenting and joking etc, and that didn't do much for my confidence. So I nearly always avoid it. If we've been drinking at all I always say (and it's true) that I never read when I've been drinking.
I wonder if any of you have any stories about an impromptu reading at a party or something where you were kind of goaded by people to perform and how it went.
So, you are with friends or family or really any group, and someone finds out you are into Tarot and announces it and people find that amusing, "so you" or whatever and then you are asked to do readings. The thing is, although these people are probably actually interested and in a way fascinated by the prospect of having a tarot reading, it isn't something they "believe" in and they make that clear by the smirky way they ask, or a kind of superior or "I dare you" attitude.
I often feel like they are:
1. Hiding a secret desperation and trying not to show it to the others by treating it as a joke.
or
2. Just having a go at you. (Family usually)
or
3. Using you for entertainment, like a carnival Tarot reader from a movie.
I really wish I had the confidence to go with it and "do the thing" and maybe something interesting comes out of it, but I don't really and find the situation unpleasant.
The times I did do it it didn't go so well, people commenting and joking etc, and that didn't do much for my confidence. So I nearly always avoid it. If we've been drinking at all I always say (and it's true) that I never read when I've been drinking.
I wonder if any of you have any stories about an impromptu reading at a party or something where you were kind of goaded by people to perform and how it went.