What do you think about Online tarot readings

[BloodCrow]

I was just curious as to what people thought about online tarot readings. I dont know what to think , lol

[Flaire-FireStar]

I've had a couple done online, and they were all pretty accurate. I've also done quite a few, and from the responses I get from the people I do them for, they're also accurate (most of the time) :)

I think it's just a bit harder to do a reading online, rather than in person, because you can't see the person you're reading for. *shrugs*

[Witchy Cowgirl]

Are you talking about on-line readings as in the computer generated ones?
Or ones like we do here?

The computer ones I don't know what to think about. I've only had those kind a couple times but they seemed to on target. And I've heard others say the same.

The ones like we do here - well folks have all told me they been accurate. I'm still learning so I prefer to do readings this way. I've done a couple for family and friends who call me and tell me there question. I do the reading, write it down, and let them read it a their leisure.
I am looking forward to the day I'm knowledgeable enough to have my querent present.

[Silver_Alhena]

To be honest, I find them easier than face to face readings for the following reasons:

You are reading 'blind' for someone. You do not know them personally, so you can concentrate on what the cards are telling you, than trying to match them up to aspects of the querant's life you already know.

During some face-to face readings, querants have immediatly leaped to a conclusion about a card, then realised later it referred to something different. With readings over MW, it allows the querant to look back over the reading later and think about the reading.

Despite having done readings since 14, there are still many occasions where I need to check, and I can sit with my books - particualrly to check card combinations, or cards that rarely appear.

The difficulty is that the person is not in front of you, but I always have something physical to represent that person, be it a scrap of paper with their name on it, or a crystal or something..

[Lavender]

With online reading such as we do here, I find that the readings are quite general. I haven't done that many one on one readings but it's different. You can get immediate feedback from the person.

[BloodCrow]

Originally posted by Witchy Cowgirl
Are you talking about on-line readings as in the computer generated ones?
Or ones like we do here?

The computer ones I don't know what to think about. I've only had those kind a couple times but they seemed to on target. And I've heard others say the same.

The ones like we do here - well folks have all told me they been accurate. I'm still learning so I prefer to do readings this way. I've done a couple for family and friends who call me and tell me there question. I do the reading, write it down, and let them read it a their leisure.
I am looking forward to the day I'm knowledgeable enough to have my querent present.

Im talking about readings as in computer generated.

[Flaire-FireStar]

Ahh.....Tarot generators. I haven't used any in a while, but I've had both good and bad experiences with them. Sometimes they're bang on, and others they're way off.

I don't necessarily like them because...well....they're a program, and they just throw out the same definition of the cards every time. It's not like when you have a real person reading for you, where they interpret the card *for you*, rather than saying the same thing over and over again for each different person who gets the same card. *shrugs*

[Clovermoon]

I have found that the readings provided by the following link are very detailed in card meanings as they appear in each different position in a reading! You have to create a profile with them, but it's a great and informative site for online divination!

I still prefer a live reading though; only because my mom and I are learning together, so the readings are so deep!

*Brightest Bessings*
Clovermoon

http://www.tarot.com/reading/select.php

[Cajime]

computer generate tarot readings - I don't think it works at all, no chance. you loose the personal connection with the cards that helps you draw out the right one, instead they're just random.

Ones people do over the internet - well.. this is difficult, I don't 100% trust it as it's going to be very very hard, on the verge of imposible. But then I also believe a lot of these online tarot people are fakes :(

I have little trust in the world ^_^;

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

Originally posted by Cajime
computer generate tarot readings - I don't think it works at all, no chance. you loose the personal connection with the cards that helps you draw out the right one, instead they're just random.

Ones people do over the internet - well.. this is difficult, I don't 100% trust it as it's going to be very very hard, on the verge of imposible. But then I also believe a lot of these online tarot people are fakes :(

I have little trust in the world ^_^;

That is really sad. :(

I don't find it impossible at all. As with everything, it's in the interpretation. What I write and you read may be the same, but what it meant to me writing it, and what it would me to you reading it.....could be worlds apart. We as humans, tend to look for connections in things....our lives....tarot/psychic readings. It's easy to believe when you are searching for answers.

I don't believe people are fakes at all. I do think that's a loaded statement here in the Tarot Forum with all of us that Read the Tarot. I know I'm not a fake. I don't make outrageous claims. I just type out what the cards say to me. In my opinion, it doesn't matter if the person is in front of me or 3000 miles away....you can still have a connection to the person you are reading for.


~D

[Cajime]

ah, I do have faith in tarot as I've been reading tarot for some time now.

But I have heard and had proof of fakes on the net, people who charge a lot of money for people who don't do a reading at all and are just given things to say about tarot typed up as instructions.

I always find there is a lot of spiritual contact needed for a good reading, and I find it's best if the person is there. If you are good I'm sure you can do it but it can't be easy at all :\

*digs herself in a hole*

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

I'm not going to say if I'm "good" or "not". That is not for me to define. when reading for another at a distance, I just focus on them....and the vibration I get from their name and location and birthdate....it lets me hone in on them.

Each person needs a different type of atmosphere to conduct a reading. Life would be pretty dull if we were all the same and did everything in the same fashion. ;)

As far as the Corporate Tarot world, that is another story. I'm don't read tarot for the $$. I read for myself for the spiritual enlightenment...for others....I think, to give them options and opportunities to see things as they are instead of what they wish them to be. There are other reasons too, and I love reading for other people. Anyhow, Corporate Tarot reader's are in it for the $$. Many may even have a love of tarot. My girlfriend loved tarot and did the phone tarot thing for a while. She did have to draw cards, but they gave her a "keyword" list of the meanings for each card. So when she drew the card, she'd have a "jump off place". Not all companies have phoney readers. I don't personally call them because 1. I can read tarot, 2. I don't have the $ to pump into one phone call, 3. I have plenty of friends that would read for me if I asked them too.

The people who call the 900tarot lines or .com's are ....in more cases than not.....one's that don't want other's to know that they are calling the 1-900-tellmemyfortune numbers.....or net-sites.

I guess it just depends on how desperate *you* (meaning the abstract persona) are for money....and how desperate *you* are for a reading.


It's just like every-any/thing else.....corruption/deception is everywhere unfortunately.


blah, blah, blah....I'm running off now. ;)

~D

[Lavender]

Originally posted by Cajime
ah, I do have faith in tarot as I've been reading tarot for some time now.

But I have heard and had proof of fakes on the net, people who charge a lot of money for people who don't do a reading at all and are just given things to say about tarot typed up as instructions.

I always find there is a lot of spiritual contact needed for a good reading, and I find it's best if the person is there. If you are good I'm sure you can do it but it can't be easy at all :\

*digs herself in a hole*

*extends a hand to help Cajime out of her hole*

It's good that you clarified your earlier statement. :) What most of us do here is different from the online readers that charges...not to say that if you charge money, you're a fake. The readings done here in this forum are genuine as far as we can be. We do it on a volunteer basis and for the love of reading.

[tarotbear]

"In everything there is corruption; a time to rip-off; a time to be ripped off."


Or, as was said in EVITA

"There is evil ever around-fundamental-
system or government quite incidental."


Or, as my grandfather used to say:

"Money sticks in the hands of saints--
and I don't see any saints around here!"


Anything and everything, no matter how simple or chaste or innocuous it is can be corrupted in the hands of the right (or wrong) person. That potential multiples exponentially when you add the Internet to the process.

[Azure]

Brian Froud's online Faeries Oracle is the only online computer generated reading that I trust - it tends to be deadly accurate.

Otherwise, I've found computer generated readings useless.

Wildchild will tell me she's done cold readings for me over the net that have been extremely accurate, though - I'm pretty certain they can be done.

The 900 number and online for money versions are a different thing - 2 out of 3 of those seem to be big ol' scams, IMO.

[BloodCrow]

I think that i would depend on the generator , to an extent for example , when i first started in tarot , wich wasnt long ago , about a year and a half , i used a book called "Tarot in ten minutes" by R.T. Kaiser , its very similar to a generator , it is very accurate , of course , sometimes on a very serious reading you have interpret to some extent , but its overall a great book .

I think that whenever you get to know soemone personally , or just talking to them in a forum like this , i think its should be no different than if they were with you , especially because my two best friends in the world i have never seen other than in pics , but i think then that the friendship would carry some sort of link to one another , and it would be accurate , at least it was in my case.

[tarotbear]

No matter what anyone tells you, there is nothing random about a computer-run anything. Computers are run by programs, and there is nothing random about a program. Even a random program is a program, and everything follows in a loop. No program, no matter how sophisticated it is can be as random as human hands shuffling 78 cards. Even a program that shuffles ( like 'Tarot Magic' - a great CDROM I have) may seem random , but it is still a programmed thing.

'Tarot in Ten Minutes' is not a generator, but it is stacked to help you get a specific answer, as RT Kaser himself has told me ( Kaser and I are in collaboration on another book). He eliminated the extraneous...i.e.- if you are asking a love question you don't use the Wands, Pentacles, or Swords. TTM may not actually teach you anything about tarot, but it is a great book and still in print after ten years. There are no large spreads in TTM because the questions you ask are pre-determined, and the cards chosen lead you to an answer. There is a method to Kaser's madness!