However the feeling I got was that to my friend any associations with tarot were a big no.
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Anyway just voicing my thoughts. Its not my friend I am questioning but does tarot have a bad reputation or something?
Magsx
With religious folk, as with non-religious folk, you just get all kinds. My sister is a born-again, but she's the most laid-back, non-judgmental person I've ever known, & very light hearted about it. She doesn't mind my atheistic views one bit, and even asked me if I would make a tarot deck for her daughter who, was thrilled with it. When I do readings in the market, I notice the little cross necklaces and people will just tell me sometimes they're Christian, but they sit down anyway & we talk & talk. Only rarely do I get people who will say as they pass, "That's the devil's work" & of course, Scott, the old hunchback in the market (he's a character & a regular figure) - he can barely talk but he'll yell at me & say "Jesus is the only way! Don't listen to her! It's the devil!" & I tell him to go away.
On the flip side, I've known quite a few occultists & non-religious who were equally pushy & annoying.
I want to tell people, look, have your own beliefs & lets all just get along & do our thing, but then I hear my aunt's voice saying jokingly "We all think if only the whole world believed as I do we'd get along great!"
There are stigmas for soooo many things. Divorcees, sexual preference, inter-racial marriage, religions, soccer-moms, new-agers, day-jobbers, stoners...it's just funny how the human mind works, how we're so anxious to exclude and be better than someone else. What I have found typically is that whatever it is we don't like in others is the thing that we don't like in ourselves. I try to keep that in mind, and when I hear someone being judgmental, I ask myself, I wonder what is it about them that makes them hate that part of themselves that is like that.