What evidence-based information supports tarot?

Here’s how that exchange happens in my house:

I’ve seen men accompany their wives/girlfriends when they get haircuts and manicures and I don’t get it. Who wants to sit around and watch that?

In my experience it’s so my girlfriend can ask which top/skirt/dress I like better. She then goes with the other one.

I’m not seeing the problem.

Tilda Swinton

Yeah, I recall that interview and I agreed with Sascha; having the subject of the biopic die halfway through the story is a terrible story beat. Sounds as if Brian wanted this to be “The Brian May Story (featuring Freddie Mercury)“

I’m worried about people who try to claim magical thinking is harmless when people want cards and stars to tell them what to do while millions are using the same logic to deny climate change and not get vaccines. Sometimes what “gets you through the day” is some evil shit that effects the rest of us.

Eh, we survived the turn of the 20th century. Now that was an increase in spiritualism.

Tarot is functionally no different from a horoscope. It’s about offering vague, broadly applicable nonsense to receptive individuals and passing it off as insight. If it helps you to think about things in your life, that’s cool, I guess. But it’s not therapy. And Tarot readers still have way more in common with…

No surprise. Recent polling shows that 40 percent of Americans believe that the sun moves around the earth.

Yes. It’s one thing to proscribe to belief system, it’s another to use it as a mechanism for faith healing instead of actual medicine. Or tell someone going through a bad time it’s “the will of Being X” and you just need to take it for now. Or think a jade egg will give your vagina magical powers. Or believe in…

I worry more about people who are really into Christianity than people who are really into tarot.

It’s no different than organized religion, because to me that is also “magical thinking.” Plenty of people believe in science AND religion...however, I live in the northeastern US where it is more Christianity-light and not so many fundies or evangelicals. YMMV. For the record, I’m agnostic and was raised with zero…

Like all mystical nonsense, this seems trivial on the surface, but it’s extremely problematic. Sure, you can chalk the experience up to some simple placebo feel goods and “what’s the harm”. The harm is a general belief in magical thinking and distrust of other methods that don’t involve hokum. If this is ok then herbs…

I am worried about people dragging this idea of “no judgment” into every conversation about pseudo-scientific bullshit. If alcohol helps you deal with every “clusterfuck” you encounter in life then you are an alcoholic. If you look to pseudo-scientific bullshit to get through those “clusterfuck” situations then you…

Insider tip: There are no “real” psychics.

Most of my friends are into these things, we love the aesthetic and witchiness of it all. I think a lot of younger people are into that aspect of it, but I have also met people who are for real into it. It’s disconcerting when the lines cross and you stop a conversation to ask, “wait, are you really into this like…

I used to read palms in college, and I love the idea of teasing people about the characteristics of their zodiac sign, but I don’t take those things seriously. I hope other people approach these things similarly, but knowing that we live in an advanced country where flat eartherism is growing, I also worry.

I’m worried how in today’s society, despite the fact that organized religions are on the decline, pseudo-spiritualistic nonsense like tarot, crystals, angels, psychics, mediums, horoscopes, etc seem to be on the increase.