Can Tarot Produce Terrible Things After A Reading?, Questions from a (very obvious!) tarot newb Options

I have been very interested in tarot for a while. It's mystique has always fascinated me. I have been thinking of purchasing/making a set.

I spoke to my father about this (he is very spiritual and in touch with other planes) but a sense of negative energy filled the room. He told me stories of people who used it and had similar effects of an aftershock to using a ouija board. (Hauntings, negative energies, etc.)

Is this true or something that happens often? Can the tarot turn bad if one is not experienced enough? It doesn't seem possible since (from my limited knowledge) the ouija is more about grasping things from intuition and the minds eye rather than spirits and other entities unkown.

Is there anything I need to be wary of when studying or doing actual readings?

I'm sorry if there is already a thread about this, I had a quick squiz (and even used the search function (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush2.gif) ) but I didn't see anything.

This post has been edited by Whisperling: Feb 28 2010, 10:28 PM

i've never heard of this either - unless the person picking up the tarot cards is whacked or something already, how could dealing out a handful of cards and looking for personal meaning in what comes up where cause this?

you turn over the cards, you read them, and you control your future

the cards, like cracks forming in a heated turtle shell, or how sticks or bones pile up when thrown, indicate a possibility, not a certainty, and it is up to you whether something happens or not, and interpretation and what assignments are made to each thing are really everything

you can do the same idea with a deck of regular everyday playing cards - a friend uses these all time instead of tarot cards, they just assign values to the cards and deal them out in a big circle then look for meanings in which card is where, past, future, now, and then - same process essentially as tarot reading, and supposedly just as effective, at least for them