{"id":347,"date":"2002-07-27T20:20:46","date_gmt":"2002-07-27T20:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/07\/27\/tarot_cards.html"},"modified":"2002-07-27T20:20:46","modified_gmt":"2002-07-27T20:20:46","slug":"tarot_cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/07\/27\/tarot_cards.html","title":{"rendered":"tarot cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never quite know what to make of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/horoscopes\/\">horoscopes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tryskelion.com\/7card.htm\">tarot cards<\/a> and the like.  I&#8217;ve never believed in astrology or its meanings, but i had a little realization today.  What i like about them is that they <a href=\"http:\/\/realmagick.com\/topics\/09\/9.html\">provide feedback<\/a>, stuff that i already know (partially because i read the horoscope\/tarot cards in the light that i want to read it), but they provide the feedback in a way that i&#8217;m willing to digest it.  I can see a reading and it&#8217;s like looking in the mirror, only because of the mysticism and the idea that someone else wrote it, i end up better able to hear what i am actually personally constructing.  I never thought about putting astrology into the same vein as self-help, which is silly because it&#8217;s all new age, but alas, there are certain things that take a smack upside the head before you&#8217;re willing to see them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not willing to pay for a tarot reading, as it seems utterly foolish to pay someone to be a mirror.  Although that&#8217;s quite hypocritical since i think of psychologists in the same light.  Only difference is that they are a human presence that lets me work out my shit without causing harm to my friends.  Hmm.. and i support shrinks but i don&#8217;t support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarkforum.com\/\">cults<\/a>.  I guess my problem there is that you spend a lot of money under the guise of getting help, but without realizing that their main objective is to make money.  Of course, i get weary whenever money is involved..<\/p>\n<p>I need to think about this some more, cause my opinions seem awefully arbitrary on the matter.  When can external opinions be valuable or harmful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never quite know what to make of horoscopes and tarot cards and the like. I&#8217;ve never believed in astrology or its meanings, but i had a little realization today. What i like about them is that they provide feedback, stuff that i already know (partially because i read the horoscope\/tarot cards in the light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}