Quote Originally Posted by Death BOO Z
Junior, if that's the point, why can't I go and SPEAK to this person, and have him analyize me the normal way? why do I need the middleman (middleman being the cards)? I didn't say that people aren't smart and emphatic and what not, I merely said that Tarot cards are crap.
When you go to a psychiatrist or psychologist I doubt they will approach you with a deck of cards. However, an intuitive layman may need something like the cards as a medium to be able to "analyse" you, especially and maybe essentially if the person believes in those cards. Such a person might be unable to consult you without the cards (or other medium) because of the lacking special training (in psychology or psychiatry or something else) or because it wouldn't exactly fill the same purpose.

If an average person happens to pay a tarot card reader for some probing, I doubt he/she is really doing (or should be doing) it instead of going to a psychiatrist or psychologist or some special consultant (bankruptcy, marriage crisis, whatever). So, it's also a matter of attitude on both sides.

Well, that's just how I see it. No doubt there are also people who see tarot cards with dead seriousness.