I have ethics regarding myself in the sense that I won't kill a person or steal or stuff like that. But my ethics regarding Tarot are actually quite low, by other people's standards. A Tarot reading just isn't like installing a hidden camera in someone's room and has never given me that kind of information, so I don't worry that much about the ethical side of it. However, I do have double standards and the kinds of readings I do for myself I will usually not do for others because I can't recommend it as a good course of action. But I'm the reader and I allow myself to "sin" because I know the deal and how fraught with uncertainty such a reading can be.
I do however use it to my advantage, like asking before a date what "energies" the person will respond to, or before a job interview what will land me the job. Both of those can be considered snooping but the way I see it, an ability or power should be used, used well and used often.
I also lie to querents on occasion. I mean, I don't tell people one thing when the reading says something else, but recently I was asked to do a reading for a friend who had his new boyfriend with him. They had been dating something like less than a month and they both asked me, in the presence of the other, about the future of their relationship. I didn't see good things but I told them I saw nothing about their relationship at all. I didn't feel it would be right to intervene so early, and with both of them there I felt that keeping my mouth shut was the more tactful thing to do. Sometimes telling the whole truth can do damage.
