8 Myths About Tarot You Need to Stop Believing

1. “Tarot is evil or dark.”

That's how the movie portrays it, but tarot doesn’t summon evil spirits or demons. Tarot is just a tool that helps to give you clarity in your situation and its a mirror to your situation, it shows you blind spots that you lack to see as you are too involved in your own situation. It reads your energy and mirrors back to you. Giving you a preview on how things would pan out if you continue with this energy/ mindset/ pattern.

2. “Tarot predicts the future exactly.”

Tarot just shows you a potential timeline based on your current energies, you are still in control of the outcome. And if you do not like how things are in the future, you are able to use the tarot to find ways to change your current situation. Understand that we, as the reader, are also human. And we are not immune to err. Nothing is set in stone in life and as your energy changes your potential timeline changes too.

3. “You can’t buy your own tarot deck.”

The deck powers lie in your connection to it and not who pays for it or how you got it. It’s an extension of your energy, you do not have to be gifted a deck for you to start reading. If you are drawn to it, this means that you’re ready to start.

4. “Reversed cards always mean something bad.”

Reverse just indicates internal energy, resistance, or redirection in your situation. It does not mean something bad is going to happen, the fact that it's being shown to you, puts you in a position to change it. You are not helpless in a reading, in fact you have complete free will on how to change and affect your life.

5. “You have to be psychic to read tarot.”

Tarot is intuitive and symbolic. Anyone can learn to read the cards with practice, self-awareness, and empathy. Everyone has intuition, it's like a muscle memory, many of us are not activating it as it is laying dormant in us. Tarot trains you to use it and strengthen it and as it gets more activated, your connection to your higher self gets stronger, allowing you to get more out of your reading.

6. “The Death card means someone will die.”

The Death card rarely signifies literal death, it symbolizes transformation, endings, and rebirth. It’s often one of the most liberating cards in the deck. It creates fear as death brings about changes and we are wired to fear the uncertainty that change brings. But we don’t see that as a potential to get out of our comfort zone, to learn and experience the things that we don’t know. Everything and anything can happen at this time, the bad and the ugly but the good too.

7. “Tarot replaces therapy or professional advice.”

Some assume that tarot fixes everything and falls into the trap of using the tarot for every step in life. It doesn’t work that way, you are still in the driver’s seat of your life, the tarot is able to advise and show you potential next steps to get what you want in life, but the power still lies in you. You will have to live with the decisions that you make, tarot however, works beautifully along side coaching, therapy and inner work.

8. “Readers can read everyone, anytime.”

People assume tarot readers can (or should) read someone’s energy without consent. Spiritual privacy is very important as a reader, we respect and understand that. Ethical readers only read for those who willingly participate. Boundaries protect both the reader and the querent. If it's not practised, this will lead to spying, an invasion of privacy about someone else’s life that has little to no impact on the querent life, just to satisfy the querent curiosity about what is happening in that person's life. There is no purpose to it, it does not benefit the querent in any shape, way or form.

Tarot isn’t magic that happens to you, it’s a conversation with your higher self.

It helps you connect dots, face truths, and make choices with clarity.

Once you stop fearing it, you start learning from it.