There is a belief that Tarot readers are not allowed to predict death. There is no law that says they cannot. It is all in the context. Over the years I have found myself making such a prediction, and the prediction comes true.
Probably the most dramatic was many years ago for a heavily pregnant rather large blonde woman – even I could tell she was pregnant. I was in platitude mode for about ten minutes when the woman interjected “You have not told me anything yet!” I asked her if she really wanted to know something. She yes. I asked several more times, and she was insistent. I took a deep breath.
“I don’t think your baby will live long…” Naturally she questioned me deeper. All I could say that it was something to do with water. By now of course she was not best pleased, and she went out rather upset.
It is the nature of reading the tarot on Brighton seafront that I do not always get follow ups, but that reading stuck with me. Some years later, a slim brunette walked into my office for a reading. She said, “I don’t suppose you remember me…” and I had to admit I did not. Then she told me she was heavily pregnant at the time “And you were blonde…?” I asked. She nodded. A shiver went through me. She was nothing like the pregnant woman. She sat down and told me the story of what transpired.
After making the prediction she went out very upset and told her friends. She went to the doctor for a checkup, and everything was fine. She gave birth to a healthy boy, no complications. 18 months later she went to a party at a friend’s house, taking her son. She said there was a swimming pool. Her son fell in and drowned. He was rescuscitated at the poolside, and taken to hospital. He did not die, but he was in a persistent vegitative state, and required 24 hour nursing. She reassured me that she was not angry or anything towards me. After a while I got back my composure. The professional part of me was pleased that my prediction had basically come true, and I was of course very sorry for what the woman had gone through. Then she said to me, “I have come back to find out what you see for my future!”
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I was still in an agitated state that I could not do a reading for her, and she understood. What had happened? Sometimes tarot readers have to make a pronouncement about the future, even if they are not as dramatic as this case, and when the prediction comes true, it makes the querent realise that there is so much to life that they do not know or understand. The querent has to take a deeper, more spiritual or philosophical outlook to life.
If this woman had not come to me so early in my career, I would have been in a better place to help her when she returned. So why am I telling you this story? I came across a report in a newspaper about a prediction of murder that came true. Her interpretation of the Ace of Swords is extreme – I have not seen it predict a stabbing, even with the 10 of Swords a violent card. However, as I said at the start, context is everything. The woman doing the reading is the wife of a notorious gangster.
Oh how intense! That would have upset me greatly to have that knowledge. Hell, I feel bad enough when I know that someone’s boyfriend just ain’t the prince she wants him to be. These clients always end up pissed off at me for telling it like it is too.
How sad for this lady, to have such a terrible thing happen to her child. And how difficult for you to have to tell her.
Having to deal with situations is all part of the Tarot Reader’s lot. The death of the baby happened many years ago, and I have a suspicion that in some way it was a lesson for me.
Recently I have done a number of readings involving life-threatening conditions, including a woman who had been diagnosed somewhat insensitively by her doctor as terminally ill. When I looked at her cards, all I could see were joyous scenes involving people in her life – and nothing else. Despite the joy, I found it impossible to express what I saw. After a while the woman told me her story. She told me that the doctors had bungled the treatment. The day before she had a party with many of her family, and it was a joyous occasion. She was told she had weeks to live, but to me I thought she would live until around February 2010.
When my mom was in her late 20′s, she was playing with tarot cards with my aunt. I wasn’t sure how they were playing with them, but it seems like they were rotating/exchanging cards. For some strange reason, my mom told me about how my aunt kept getting a certain tarot card depicting a ‘black heart”. No matter how or how many different times they shuffled through the deck, she would always find the black heart tarot card in her pile. My mom told me that a couple of weeks later after they played with these cards, that my aunt died from heart problems or possibly a heart attack.
Is it possible that tarot cards are linked/can predict death?
Hi Chris, Tarot can predict anything. What is important is the context. For someone suffering a terminal disease, predicting death can be a blessing.
Paul
I have been doing tarot for under a year. I tend to not do full readings for myself anymore just for others. So far all my readings have come true. The 2 deaths, a serious accident, and a pregnancy one. have stuck with me the most in fact every reading does. Positive or negative. I now keep a journal with dates for validation. I used to ring my parents and tell them in advance. And just today again something has come true but theres another part to the reading that isnt good and i really don’t know how to tell my friend. I was very skeptical at first but this is just uncanny even if i don’t believe it myself. and shuffle relay again 2 or 3 times the same cards come out again? which is impossible. Ever since i started i noticed a presence around me not a negative one but either way good or bad they freak me out, so i asked it to leave (i didn’t know you could actually do that) it has comes back every now and again. Could this maybe be a spirit guide ? Does tarot have anything to do with that sort of stuff.???? I feel like ive opened a door again on stuff i shut out along time ago because it got to much + i got scarred. Now im older well 25. I still feel sometimes afraid of opening myself too much and not being able to control seeing things hearing things like in the past. But for now i have it under control. hence why i use the cards ( like a barrier i feel safe with) to hold things at a distance. I am happy to read cards. I am not happy to see spirits etc again right now especially now i have a young son. My question is are these pathways already laid out, is whats going on in your head thoughts opinions on the question for that person what come through in the cards, Is it something else like a spirit, I see the cards as advice. As in if you carry along on this journey this will happen etc etc. Like an insight take the advice or leave it. But god knows how it works or whats making the answers come out. It all fascinates me scares me and confuses me at the same time. And how can i get past the fear in general nothing to do with the cards but the spirits something is deffo trying to get my attention or tell me something and im to scared to tune into it, if that makes any sense…….
Hi,
There are two main things – never read for yourself – you will get the problems you are describing, and two, it is not good to make things significant. Tarot works, fine. That’s it.
Paul