A deck of cards and a year have many similarities.

There are 52 cards in a pack. 52 weeks in a year.
Four suits in a deck, 4 seasons in a year.
13 cards per suit and 13 weeks per season.

Adding up all the cards values, 1 - 10, jack being 11, queen =12, king = 13, Ace = 1, the joker being 1 gives 365. The days in a year.
Want a leap year - throw in the other joker :-)

Why do you think tarot cards work? ;)

cautious connie wrote on Jun 19^th, 2007 at 7:41am:

Why do you think tarot cards work? ;)

mmm do tarot cards work connie? i know somone who had a deck and used them for the good of mankind not evil.*.joke*

like for instance and this is NO bull...he,d have a perfectly beautiful sunny day and then wanted the cards to 'tell' him if he should go fishing...of course even on those perfect days the cards would tell him 'NO'...they said it was coming up cloudy and stormy..It never did, but he got a day off all the same.

Ive met a couple of strange pple in my life. He also had a crystal ball and a genuine 'human' skull, could have been plastic for all I know. he used to meditate with it presiding over the whole session. ..he called it 'yorak'.

I think he called himself a white witch.

Not a personal friend, too scary of course, but definitely a character. He has long red/blond hair, thick, fair complexion etc and used to wear a long black velvet cape sometimes.  Smoked lots of weed too. A chzech I think..very eccentric.

So when you say tarot..this person immediately springs to mind.

Interesting person but I agree- too scary to be close friends with. My comment was just a joke on the basis that the "strangely parallel" structure observed matches for the reason of predicting the future.

I however do have my own set of tarot cards and I would not sneeze at them. I use them very sparingly. That they seem to work pretty well scares me.

Whatever works for you connie..some pple swear by them.

I've never understood how Tarot Cards work, but when my daughter was about 11 - she decided she wanted this beautiful pack we saw in a New Age shop.

She took to them like a duck to water and at one stage adults were asking her to read for them.  She just had this uncanny ability and her readings were so close to the truth, it was a bit scary.  She also got into Ouiji Boards about that time and rather than discouraging her, I prepared happy Boards with lots of positive images.  She only used old polished jade as her pointer - but this also was very successful and something her friends begged her to drag out when they stayed overnight - I always warned the parents first.

She outgrew this in her early teens (thank goodness), but about that time, she began experiencing, what I assume were poltergeist, strange movements in her bedroom.  Some nights she would see a boy sitting on the end of her bed and her TV & radio were being turned off while she was asleep and objects were being moved around.  She was never scared and said she felt comforted.

This has also come to a stop in the last couple of years.

But I am grateful though that it isn't the Middle Ages - she would have been burnt at the stake.

mantra - cripes !! That's pretty scary reading.
A few of us used an ouiji board when wew were kids, it worked.  
Pretty scary really for us.

dark arts, thats the way to go.

we shoudl have a war get the charismatic pentacostals to go up against the new age peoples, lots of fun all round, yelling screaming :D.

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But I am grateful though that it isn't the Middle Ages - she would have been burnt at the stake.

And be grateful she doesent live in a present day islamic nation. Stoning!

on the upside she cuold become the world first new age martyr in the last couple hundred years.

ok maybe to much?