Two Regina experts give their take on tarot card reading | 24CA News
Some individuals consider tarot playing cards can be utilized to foretell the longer term whereas others don’t. According to a Regina downtown card reader, it’s a observe that goes again centuries and it’s a cultural custom that he gained’t let go of.
“People do not understand our culture at all, so they fear it,” stated Dino Callefos. “Therefore, they hate it.”
Callefos began studying tarot playing cards when he was 5 years previous.
He says traditionally, card studying belongs to the Romani individuals and date to Biblical occasions.
However, it’s nothing out of the atypical when Callefos must defend his career.
“These big misconceptions that we’re into witchcraft … or there’s gypsy curse,” he stated. “There’s no such thing as a curse … the problem is people start believing this garbage.”
However, Callefos stated there are incorrect makes use of of tarot card studying particularly when one extorts cash from shoppers.
“The ruse of the tarot cards is to show you what path you’re on,” he stated. “A reading shows you the path you’re on. This way you can look … go towards it. Prevent it, fix it … a reading is guidance, almost no difference in talking to a psychologist.”
Roger Petry, University of Regina philosophy professor, stated historical past means that tarot playing cards began getting used within the 1780s for that type of divination functions, for doing tarot readings.
He says tarot playing cards began off as taking part in playing cards and the older playing cards with illustrations started to take kind as non secular instruments.
“With tarot cards, you’ve got a very specific set of meanings already attached or ones that just sort of jump out from the cards,” stated Petry.
“You don’t need to be really trained to know the history … I think for that purpose, they have a specificity to them. They’ve got a detail to them that makes them very attractive if a person wants to use them for that purpose.”
— with information from Moosa Imran.
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