Understanding Yourself (Not The Future) Better With Tarot
A picture (card) is worth a thousand words
With #Tarot having over 8 billion views on TikTok, tarot reading bookings being available over Instagram, and some Gen Zs even using tarot to make investment decisions, tarot is making a noticeable and undeniable mainstream resurgence.
Together with its revival, I picked up a pack of tarot cards during the pandemic (like many others) to see what tarot card reading could do for me.
Now, those of you who are non-believers of the ‘mystic arts’ and ‘magic’ might be tempted to stop reading here. But like you, I have never been a believer in the occult. To me, being able to divine the future based on depictions on some cards I drew seems improbable.
When I picked up the set of tarot cards, all I wanted to do was to understand what all the hype was about.
And as it turns out, there were lots I could learn from this deceptively simple deck of cards (again, nothing to do with predicting the future).
But First, What Are Tarot Cards?
Contrary to many people’s beliefs, the modern version of tarot we see today isn’t an extremely old technique people adopted to divine the future.
