divination accuracy?

[bohemianeditor]

In a post I read recently, the poster mentioned that when sie began reading Tarot, hir readings weren't very accurate. Which is a much different perspective than I had when I began reading Tarot -- I assumed that the cards were accurate, I just didn't know how to read them yet.

What's your perspective? Is your divination method of choice always accurate? If not, do you think the fault is mostly in how you read it, or mostly in what the cards/runes/[ your method here ] had to say?

(I admit I don't keep track of whether or how often my Tarot readings are inaccurate; I also tend to ask more about forces behind a given situation than concrete, verifiable kinds of questions.)

Comments

[deadnettle]

My divinations aren't always accurate, but then I do try to ask questions that are verifiable somehow.

When they aren't accurate I can often go back to them and think laterally and make them fit, so interpretation is certainly one of the areas where readings go wrong for me.

The rest of the time when readings are inaccurate its either been where I'm emotionally invested in the situation; or where the questions I was asking weren't really going to come up with the answer I needed; or occasionally when the method itself didn't have the vocabulary to cover the distinctions that needed to be made to give a clear reading.