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Maybe... you should say that to your friend, instead of using your shared religious beliefs that convince them to stay in a shitty relationship...?
tarot cards don't have to be religious/spiritual.
Genuinely I would love to understand your perspective - how are they not a religious practice?
Jungian archetypes and shadow work reflection prompts.
I'm not sure how the presence of ideas promoted by Jung or the concept of guided self-reflection are at all mutually exclusive with religious beliefs.
I don't see how they're wedded.
They work as excellent prompts for introspection and for helping you to see connections you might have missed before. The output can ofc be entirely non-sensical but if everyone involved is aware they are simply cards then that isn't really an issue, you just laugh about it and move on.
It's like rubber ducking in programming really, but for whatever issue you "ask" the cards.
In the meme the scenario is made up and we don't know if the two individuals believe the cards can be used for something spiritual or not, but it's just a meme anyways so it doesn't really matter.
I read Tarot as a mild hobby - I love collecting decks and paraphernalia and then using them. But for me it's like any other creative impetus randomizer machine (scenes from a hat in improv, the artists way, oblique strategies...) - you pull a series of images and then talk about how it makes you feel.
it's not spiritual at all for me.
Same except I'm pretty sure that's what spirituality is, or can be, anyway. I've worked hospitals where atheist chaplains are a thing. Even atheists need help coming to terms with death sometimes. Not feeling inherently connected to anything in particular is still a belief about how you relate the the universe. And tbh I think a lot of the shit atheists get is due to it not adequately being recognized as a spirituality. They're not actually missing one, it just looks different.
They are about as religious as a paper fortune game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_fortune_teller
Even among people who take their cards "seriously" they aren't religious in nature. It's that "I'm spiritual, not religious" line because there's basically no religion that's welcoming to Tarot.
It's a hundreds year old Italian & French card game that has a reputation. You can play standard card games like War and Go Fish with tarot and you can lay a reading with Grandma's bridge deck.
It's all the same magical thinking that's ruining the fucking planet
How is saying „dump him“ convincing them to stay in the relationship?