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The Tarot--Evil or Biblical?
Submitted By: Sue C. at The Awareness Shop - Date: 10/29/99
As I read the tarot cards more and more, I know that what most people fail to realize is that a lot of the picture cards of the Major Arcana are directly from the Bible. For example, The Tower Card represents the Tower of Babel when everyone was speaking in different tongues and in a state of confusion. Also from the Bible is The Judgment Card, which represents Judgment Day and the Archangel Gabriel. We also have The Temperance Card, which represents the Archangel Raphael and looking at the cup that's half full, not always the one that is half empty.
I was doing readings once at Walden Day where there was a street fair. As I began to read for a woman, a priest from the area decided to so rudely interrupt the reading by saying to the woman not to let her chidlren listen to the works of the devil. He then proceeded togive my table what Christians call absolution, and he made the sign of the cross over my table. I then decided to respond to him by saying, "I bet you never even picked up a tarot book to read it. I will not justify what I do by your stupidity." I also told him that I respected his beliefs and that I, too, read the Bible. He told me that The Devil works in many ways. The whole episode was actually in my favor, because whoever was running the fair came over to me and did not charge me for my spot.
Another event took place at Plattekill Day, where a teenager sat down at my table and just looked at me to tell me that God loves me. He then broke out a Bible and proceeded to read from it. He also left me his Bible after I walked away from my table. I now have quite the collection of Bibles.
Another year at Walden Day brought me some young teenagers who kept coming by my table and telling me that God loves me with pamphlets. They also were dropping cookies off at my table, and another time they left a bouquet of flowers. They proceeded once again to tell me that I was doing evil and that God loves me.
This past summer, I met my girlfriend out at a popular bar and I did a reading for her. She is very open to it and other spiritual and metaphysical things. The evening went on and her husband joined us. He asked me how I've been, and when I told him I was a psychic, he couldn't believe me. He laughed and proceeded to ask me a question about him taking a new job. I started to pull some cards and I told him to think before he changed anything. He also asked me a few other questions and I told him my opinion according to what I was reading in the cards. After we were done, then then said that he felt like he had done something terribly wrong or sacreligious. He also asked me if I tell people to pray to The Devil and to do bad things. I answered him saying, "I read for the good of people, not for negative."
I now pick and choose certain events that I do because of such skeptics and closed-minded people who are out there. I truly believe that I have always been psychic and have a gift that is higher powered, but I also worked at developing this gift for which I am truly grateful each day. I find that Tarot itself is misunderstood because of illiteracy, not because of religious beliefs. Closed-minded people fear change and any new information. They prefer to live with old doctrines and worn-out religious beliefs because it is more comfortable. The tarot cards are actually a step forward in our evolution to perfection.
Psychic, Sue C.
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