Is The Tarot Predictive?

[Toxicmage]

Can the tarot predict the future of a sitter? I know the Old School tarot readers believed so. But it seems to me that the New School tarot readers really don't believe so.

When tarot hit the mainstream right around the year 2000 it seemed that all the tarot books that came out after 2000 were all written by psychologists & counselors of some sort with PhD's after their names.

What do you think?

 

[Lurker]

Can the tarot predict the future of a sitter?

I've only read for myself, but in my experience, yes. That is the point of divination, to be able to divine the future.

But it seems to me that the New School tarot readers really don't believe so.

I would avoid those people. They don't know what they're talking about. IMO they have either accepted other people's limitations or they are charlatans.

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But keep in mind that divination isn't absolute. It is showing your patterns of energy and the most likely patterns in the future. It's possible to disrupt those patterns. In fact, Denning & Phillips wrote a book called Magick of the Tarot on how to replace unfavorable cards in readings of the future with favorable cards. (I think it's out of print now, but I cherish my copy.)

 

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yes and no. Long answer is no.
Tarots predict, but some can change fate. This is why i like the angelic sight, they see futures and consequences for actions. Meaning unlike tarot you can actually understand the future better.

 

[Dascent]

Can the tarot predict the future of a sitter? I know the Old School tarot readers believed so. But it seems to me that the New School tarot readers really don't believe so.

When tarot hit the mainstream right around the year 2000 it seemed that all the tarot books that came out after 2000 were all written by psychologists & counselors of some sort with PhD's after their names.

What do you think?

It is evolving and here's how.
The "old school" as you say didn't had the privilege of so many words and definitions (even if the knowledge and the skill was there) to define the layers of the craft while the "new school" has the knowledge, has the words for it and goes in depth.

The old school didn't had the term archetype tho that was what they used in their readings.
From The Fool up to The World (major arcana) all these are archetypes rooted in our colective consciousness.
Carl Gustav Jung, pioneer and "architect" of the term, definition and concept of "archetype" was the stepping stone of Tarot's evolution and inevitably the birth of the "new school" from here the psychologist influence of the reading.

There is no old/new school but there is an adaptation of the words and definitions, an evolution if you will.
Old school makes the very same reading as "new school" with same accuracy but words land different because we no longer use the archaic ones.
Instead of trumps we say archetypes and that alone sounds quite different.

Archetypes didn't changed only our definition for what they reflect did.
Tarot doesn't predict the future but does reflect potentialities of predictive behavior ... archetypes are a cumulus of predictive repetitive behavior .
So in that sense, so called prediction is in fact the reader's knowledge about the reflective aspects of the archetype which is predispose to specific actions, states so on.. plus their skilful intuition because there are specific individuals who are passionate about this skill, this activity. Not for everybody.

I, for one, make use the major arcana from tarot (and some other esoteric knowledge) as a tool to reflect the Personality and Destiny of an entity and I can do that with an accuracy which makes the "sitter" wow...