For those who read predictively, have you had any memorably accurate readings?

[greenribbon]

I feel like the majority of users in the r/tarot subreddit take an oddly hard-line stance that tarot can only be used for self-reflection, that it's impossible to read predictively, or sometimes that it's possible but unethical (as in cases where people are attempting to read for third parties who aren't present). I find their doubt beginning to rub off on me, so I'm curious whether this forum's members have any different perspectives to share. In particular, I'd love to hear about any especially noteworthy or on-target predictive readings you've received.

[DanielJUK]

This is my fave area of tarot and divination 🥰

I do predictive readings all the time, world events, elections, sports events, entertainment. I would say I am about around an average of about 70% accurate, it's impossible to always get it right I think but I usually get something.

 

I have predicted stuff that came up in readings for friends. My fave one is about ten years ago I predicted a friend would get married. It was in a reading for her next year (this was a long time ago). The Hierophant was in the reading but didn't relate to anything else, it was most strange. I thought could this be marriage with her long term partner? My BFF is an alternative/ punky person, I just couldn't see a hierophant traditional wedding. I gave her the reading and they did get married and the wedding part was a very traditional white dress wedding ceremony with her hubby! She did her own thing in the after party but the card was totally correct! We both didn't know it would happen like that when I did the reading 😄.

 

In my own life I have mixed results predicting things. It had been very helpful at times but sometimes a self help or advice reading is more helpful. At the end of 2018. I did a deep reading into what would happen to me in 2019. That year was just terrible for me and I decided I didn't want to know what was going to happen in 2020! I wouldn't read ahead and the 2019 reading was unhelpful for me. Like I knew before the year started the months it would be worse and the themes and it came true. So because I stopped reading like that I never saw the pandemic in 2020! 🤣 🤦‍♂️. I always wonder if i had been reading ahead if i would have seen it and worked it out.

 

For me, it's just experimental and for fun. I think people use it wrongly a lot, like from a position of anxiety and emotions. People ask like, Will I marry? Will i be happy? These are not good questions to read on, too open, too general, it works best to get specific in time frames and question. The wider open and more in future you go, the less chance of bring accurate. Our lives change and we make different decisions and choices from the predicted scenario. Reading what is coming up for you in November would give quite a good reading. 

 

[gregory]

The most startling one I ever hit was from a general reading which didn't predict as such; it was a kind of "how are things" reading - but as a parting shot I said that one of the figures in a card had an eye that looked badly infected, maybe see a doctor. My sitter eventually confessed to having glaucoma and choosing not to deal with it for too long.... I was gently amazed. It's the unexpected hits that impress me most.

[Deian]

I remember first time I got close to 100% accuracy on a divination for election... Was 4-5 years ago I think?
Not much to say, casted 3-4 times for each party, got numbers rounded to 0.5, as they were too big to fit into 100, then asked how the votes for one of the parties will change depending on something, it provided exactly the same numbers, that we already had for that party, that was close to impossible by itself. Suggesting whatever we thought may be a factor in the result, wasn't...

 

Results came, seemed very little different then expected, but different none the less. Yet I had reasons to expect it to be more accurate, so I searched a lot for the exact numbers that I was expecting and turned out they were the numbers of the first 2 parties absolutely on point(to 0.5) but specifically for our own voting place that day. Third one was close but there was off by around 4-5% I think, there is a thing after first 2 casts on the same question that happens that I don't understand fully, but is kinda known.

That made a huge impact on me back then, as it provided the idea the systems if used right can be staggeringly accurate, for this 2 times to get to 0.5 accuracy that is less then 1 / 100 chance...

There have been too many times stuff was very accurate, but I guess since it was first time it happened kinda stayed with me.
This was with eastern systems, of course, while can you do it with Tarot... Not the way people use it now. Either need to learn eastern systems for that(deeper forms of I Ching/Yi Jing are good choice) or fix the problems with the Tarot. But second one is kinda lost cause anyway, so I guess eastern systems are only choice for accuracy possible now I'm aware of.
Not counting remote viewing, that could be accurate, from the very little I have tested from their online materials, but don't think it can be used for everything.

[Misterei]

On 10/29/2024 at 7:24 PM, greenribbon said:

I feel like the majority of users in the r/tarot subreddit take an oddly hard-line stance that tarot can only be used for self-reflection, that it's impossible to read predictively, or sometimes that it's possible but unethical (as in cases where people are attempting to read for third parties who aren't present). I find their doubt beginning to rub off on me, so I'm curious whether this forum's members have any different perspectives to share. In particular, I'd love to hear about any especially noteworthy or on-target predictive readings you've received.

Tarots have been used to tell fortunes since 1527. So by 2027 that will be 500 years of using Tarot predictively. In the past 5 minutes of history, some annoying folks have tried to legislate Tarot. Many of them are on Reddit which is why I'm here 😇

 

Personally, I think their fear & loathing of predictive readings is b/c they're bad or low-skill readers and afraid to make predictions. But I digress. Ahem.

 

I not only read predictively, I do accuracy testing whenever I can. After 45 years, I expect my predictions to be accurate. I've been dead wrong at times but mostly the predictions hit. It's hard to pick out one that is super memorable.

 

A couple houses ago we put an offer on a house and the cards said there was another buyer in front of us but they would drop out and we would get the house. I didn't know about the other offer when I did this reading, but in fact it was 100% accurate. There was an accepted offer but the buyer pulled out and it went to us. I did a grad school reading for a client. He was choosing between 3 schools. He did, in fact, get accepted and go to the school the cards predicted.

 

Sometimes it's partial hits. A client asked about his upcoming trip to another country. I kept getting cards about his father [not part of the question and nothing the client mentioned]. Turns out his father was in prison in this country and the client would definitely go see him, but it was a complex situation.

 

Another client asked about her brother's death. I knew nothing about it other than she asked if there was a police cover-up. The Hanged Man appeared and that was the cover-up. The police claimed he hung himself. The cards showed that the police were at fault, but it would remain covered-up. A terrible situation. At least the cards said it wasn't suicide. Which hopefully eased some of her pain. That one wasn't a prediction b/c it dealt with a past event. There is no way for me to verify the prediction [that it would remain covered-up] b/c she wasn't a regular client.

Edited October 31, 2024 by Misterei

[Chariot]

 I received an incredibly accurate predictive tarot reading from a perfect stranger, who knew nothing about me.  I was trying to find a person who had meant a lot to me in the past. We'd lost contact after being forced apart by others (we were quite young at the time and didn't have control over our circumstances.)  But the situation had left me feeling sad and unsettled for nearly 25 years, and I wanted closure if I could get it.  When I started to explain my situation to the reader, she quickly said, "You are troubled by unfinished business with a dark young man."  I couldn't have put it better myself.

This reader then quickly predicted what would happen, down to the month the resolution would occur, gave me information about the person's present livelihood, family members, etc.  At the time of the reading I had no idea where my old friend was, what he was doing, or if he even had a family.  He could have been anywhere in the world, doing anything at all.  At the time I got the reading the internet was only getting started, there was no social media, etc.  The tarot reader's emphatic words to me—which she repeated several times, using the exact same words—were: 'he will contact you in December.'

I was flabbergasted. I didn't even know where he was at the time of the reading (in August), let alone expecting that it was him who would contact ME.  I assumed it would be the other way around, if I even managed to find him.

Well, on the 17th of December, a letter dropped through my door with his name on it ...and there was a huge long letter explaining what had happened to him since we were last in contact, etc. All the facts the reader had given me about his present situation were spot-on.  And as she had also predicted, my old friend and I were able to get our unfinished business sorted without anybody getting hurt—but also leaving our feelings for each other still intact by knowing that what we had experienced between us in the past was, indeed, real.

My consultation with this insanely good reader took place at a tarot 'event' held locally, and I have no idea what her name was or where she was based.  All I remember about her is that, unlike all the other readers at the event, she wasn't costumed like Madame Swami.  Instead of swishy skirts, black eyeliner and jangly earrings and a million rings, she had a short blonde haircut, was wearing a twin set, sensible shoes, normal eyeglasses, no paraphernalia other than her cards.  She was the real deal.  Intuition made me choose her from the lineup, and I was so glad I did.  My friend I went to the event with chose one of the flashy readers, who gave her a load of codswallop and mumbo jumbo about her love life ...none of which came true at all.  (Fortunately!)

In hindsight, I wish I had been able to see the cards my reader laid out. (I did tarot myself, at the time.)  I didn't handle her cards myself.  She had her card table laid out at a slant so the querent (me) couldn't see the cards. While we were discussing things she kept shuffling and laying out another card or two as we talked.  But I never saw what any of the cards were.

I think she was a genuine clairvoyant, as she spoke with such surety and her predictions came quickly.  I would give my eye teeth to know who she is/was, so I could thank her for the helpful and accurate reading she gave me.  I was too stunned at the time to ask her ...a regret I've always had.

 

Edited October 31, 2024 by Chariot

[akiva]

I'm an ex r/tarot member, and my subjective opinion is it's not a place to learn, it's an echo chamber 😆

 

As for predictions, I've mostly done them rather than received them. The main ones are quite small but still made me see the magic in prediction readings.

 

The first I ever did was predicting a phone call minutes before it happened. It was a general "what do I need to know about today?" reading and it said about a phone call with a negative person, it turned out to be a scam call. 

 

Another was when I accidentally snooped on a problematic neighbour. I saw her leaving while I was shuffling my cards (for a question I'd already asked), and wondered "where's she off to in such a hurry?" then laid my cards out thinking they'd answer my original question, not that one. I ended up with this narrative saying she was meeting a sister who had been looking after her kid, and that she'd return with said child, which she did... To our detriment 🤣

 

Others included a lot of my partner asking how his Samaritan shifts would go, and me predicting bad phone lines, or an inability to help someone because of language barriers, things like that. 

 

My partner got a new job and asked for info on it. I said he'd meet a problematic woman who wears glasses. He started work and there weren't any women wearing glasses, so he was all smug and what not. Then 18 months later a woman with glasses joined and gave him so many problems he nearly quit! I forgot about this reading, until we were out for dinner and mid meal I nearly screamed when it came to me 😅

 

I also have used predictive readings for sport, game shows, TV, things like that. It's a mixed bag of results though. Particularly sport based stuff, I much prefer geomancy for that. 

 

Most of the predictions have been fun and lighthearted, but I did predict one of my cats dying, which unfortunately came true. I didn't put enough emphasis on the reading, or write it down. It was supposed to just be a test run of an old-age method. But one part of the reading basically had every negative card in it, and also a card associated with animals. A few weeks later it came true. I haven't used that method since.

[Misterei]

4 minutes ago, akiva said:

I also have used predictive readings for sport, game shows, TV, things like that. It's a mixed bag of results though. Particularly sport based stuff...

It's odd. I've noticed I'm better at certain types of predictions. National / public predictions have been hit or miss. I was dead wrong on a boy or girl prediction for T's grandchild. I do ok on pregnancy, health, relationships, real estate, and jobs/shcools. I don't even attempt missing items. I did one missing person and it was a partial hit/miss. Perhaps we readers have different strengths vis a vis what we're good at predicting.

[akiva]

34 minutes ago, Misterei said:

I don't even attempt missing items.

I love this, but with playing cards. Kapherus has a great system that's worked for me time and time again. In fact I forgot to mention this prediction. I lost my vape pen and used K's meanings and it indicated it was near a box, a window, near water (or something like that) and close to where it's supposed to be. It was on the windowsill in the downstairs bathroom next to a box with lavender in it! 🤣

There's a numerology method too but that's a bit hit and miss.

 

37 minutes ago, Misterei said:

Perhaps we readers have different strengths vis a vis what we're good at predicting.

It could also be what interests us? Or what we are more practiced in?

 

If someone never reads predictively then they'll say predictive readings don't work when they try to do one. When what they need to do is get it wrong a few times before getting it right. But people don't like being wrong 😆

[Ferrea]

When I'm looking for something at home and can't find it on my first attempt I grab my phone (for app use) or a deck (in case I'm in search of my phone) and ask: where is that thing?

It always gives me a chuckle how accurate the hints are.

 

[Deian]

15 hours ago, akiva said:

I also have used predictive readings for sport, game shows, TV, things like that. It's a mixed bag of results though. Particularly sport based stuff, I much prefer geomancy for that. 

Hi, a little offtopic here, but its interesting to ask and other members may wonder as well, you mention geomancy,is there a book or something you can recommend on it?If it works for sport events has to be good, right?Usually they are tricky to get correctly. : )

[akiva]

1 hour ago, Deian said:

Hi, a little offtopic here, but its interesting to ask and other members may wonder as well, you mention geomancy,is there a book or something you can recommend on it?If it works for sport events has to be good, right?Usually they are tricky to get correctly. : )

There's only one book that's recommended and that's The Art and Practice of Geomancy by John Micheal Greer.

 

There's a blog called Digital Ambler, which is full of amazing information on things like timings, the figures, company, aspects, different elemental/astrological associations, etc, the list is endless! He's basically the go to source for English speaking people. 

 

And finally r/geomancy on reddit is the place to see charts in action. The moderator on there is so knowledgeable. Not only with geomancy, but also horary astrology.

 

The Golden Dawn also wrote on geomancy, but no one I know uses that method as it's needlessly complicated. And you end up reading rote meanings off a chart, it's not particularly riveting divination.

 

JMG's book is basically the only one out there, and it does have it's flaws. Mainly in selecting houses for lost objects and stuff like that. So it's best to use his book, the blog and the subreddit to learn this art.

 

To bring it back a bit on topic, if you want predictive readings, it doesn't get better than geomancy imo. It's also really easy, especially sport predictions between 2 teams. It's just a case of making sure you have a preferred team to win. That team is house 1, the opponent is house 2. You're just looking for perfection between either H1 or H7 with H10 which is the house of honors/winning.

 

[Deian]

Will check it out, thank you!