>>35762800Even serious practitioners of tarot view them basically as portals to your own psyche. Two different people who got the same cards in the same order would, in theory, get two similar, but different messages tailored to their specific circumstances.
That’s why some people who don’t believe in them literally being magic still consider them useful. Then you have people like Carl Jung, who are sort of in the middle position, where they feel some shit is weird enough that they’d rather not make a definitive statement on how “real” they think it is, since in their opinion, who cares as long as it helps.