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

[zombi]

I wonder if the OP's sense of inaccuracy has to do with how well s/he clicks with the deck's symbolism.

I'm the OP, and the answer here is no, I don't think so -- these days I read very well with that very same deck, and it is never wrong. The RWS symbolism works very well for me, and I prefer to stick with it & its clones when reading regularly. In my original post, I was talking about how much different it was for me starting to read tarot when I was much younger & didn't really understand them/what I was doing.

I also think there's a nitpick with my original use of accurate; I didn't specify whether or not I felt the cards themselves were inaccurate or if I felt it was my reading of them that was inaccurate. I think it's a combination, as previous repliers have already noted -- accurate divination is a combination of tools and user, imo.