the legitimacy of Tarot cards

It was my understanding that tarot cards were traditionally more of a tool of self analysis than of divination. Say taking a set of broad archetypes and concepts present in life and human nature and then pulling out random ones and thinking over how they relate to you personaly in order to better understand yourself. That being the case you're of course going to be able to apply almost anything that pops out of the deck to your life in some way as vague as they are.

That being said i can see it being used as a focusing tool by the psychic or at least people who believe themselves to be. And if nothing else it's adds some flash that's not there otherwise which makes things more marketable and impressive seeming. And hell they've were used extensively by Crowley's bunch of magicians so much so that they even created their own variant for use withen their ranks. Which whether they were a bunch of nutjobs or not is up to the beliefs of the particular person but they were definetly more about keeping things private and withen their circle than marketing to the masses for cash.

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