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 had a bunch of drunk people go through my tarot an then had a bunch of really bad chaotic stuff happen to me..

An i once got really frustrated about lack of phone signal an cast my runes with intent.. to have it spring into being once again.

I've over used them aswell with some nasty results..

It would be easy to see how a casting from a person with a dodgy attitude or some spiritual imbalances could be harmful to anyone concerned,
you do have to believe in an oricles power for them to scatter in the right way, humans being as we are we make mistakes and that makes the possibility for some serious twists to fate.

It could be said that beliefs in horoscopes an dodgy predictions the world over could be responsible for a lot of hardship unknown in the world, who could tell?

Sometimes i think the athiest movement was primarily to rid the world of a saturation of negative superstitions, it seems to me like a culture could strangle itself with them unwittingly.

I always considered tarot cards a means to an end. If you're like me, and see the world's progress as a river flowing in one main direction and many little ones, perhaps you may find reading cards restorative to your morale. Im not inclined to call it fate persay...because there are options....but there is also cause and effect. Those who fight the law of cause and effect are naturally going to feel whip lash from it. But those who embrace their options within the realm of cause and effect and the law of cycles and rhythms will surely feel better even when negative circumstances occur. I consider it a lesson plan outlining the nature of Motion and Balance. Not an avenue for destruction or imbalance.

Why did you leave your cards out for drunk people to touch?? yuck. I would be so mad.