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There are tons of people readng tarot cards and clining to "traditional meanings" they've found in books. There are others who pull the cards without doing a set spread, and simply launch into the reading, using the imagery and what they feel about the querent's energy.

Which do you prefer?

I ask because every once in awhile I will have a querent who asks"which card shows that?", when it isn't just one card creating the energy flow.  Make sense?

the meanings in books are a good place to start if you are completley inexperienced at working with sympbolism, however if you have some experience at working symbols it is better to discard the books completely and let the cards teach you how to communicate with them.

i believe with tarot cards particularly, but also with other forms of divination, that tradiononal meanings should always and only be used. the simple fact is that there are to many invisible influences on the mind of the reader and to sway away from what the cards traditionally mean opens the way for these invisible forces to push what they want the interpretation to be.

You made a great point. The traditional way allows the reader to have an anchor, so to speak, and proceed with the reading as the cards flow and not the way he/she wants to interpret them intuitively.

Even I also agree with michael, these people are mostly fraud. These tarot cards reader take advantage of the emotions of people and easily fool them by telling some common problems that come in everyone's life. However, some of them are really very good in telling the correct things of one's life but they are very less.

yeah, there are a lot of tarot card readers that are fraud and just do it to earn money. there are also who manage to guess your problem, but all these are just really guesses. nevertheless, there are a few who are given this gift to see or visualize what could happen in your future, but they doesn't use tarot cards. its just simply their gift.