| Meteorologists, doctors, stockbrokers and tarot | | | | Straight-arrow fortune telling rarely works nowadays |
| readers are in the same line of activity. Predicting. And | | | | because of the negative associations with scams and |
| is the prediction more often wrong that they are right | | | | frauds. Back in the era of the Roman Empire, there |
| can be a tricky question. | | | | was a law forbidding anyone to consult a forecaster |
| Forecasting is estimating any time frame extracted | | | | or soothsayer. The olden civilization were suspicious of |
| from cross-sectional and longitudinal data. Just like a | | | | people who practiced forecasting. The stigma still is |
| weather forecaster who analyzes information | | | | present in this period. |
| gathered from charts of wind patterns,barometric | | | | A forecast or prediction plainly gives the querent or the |
| pressures and other data and then makes an intelligent | | | | client added information of what is to come in the |
| calculated prediction of the forthcoming weather. | | | | future. At the end of the day, it is their free will and |
| Similarly, tarot readers take the known information | | | | how they respond to it that matters. |
| from what the clients tell them about their concerns | | | | Being aware of the future events can be empowering |
| and then observe the patterns, influences and trends | | | | because it will confirm the knowledge that they are on |
| that appear in the tarot card spread and make | | | | the right path or if it is something negative gives them |
| extrapolations about the future based on the gathered | | | | a warning to avoid potential bad situation. |
| data. | | | | It can be beneficial for the tarot reader to match his |
| Although every tarot reader struggles with how far | | | | her chosen tarot card spreads that complements his |
| and to what extent they are trying to predict and how | | | | reading style and philosophy about predicting the future. |
| detailed they are trying to be. | | | | |