Why You Need to Stay Away From Readings

What my customers do after my rituals is ultimately beyond my control. My position on spirituality is simple: if a practice helps you, stabilizes you, or brings you clarity, I see no issue with it. Affirmations and meditations can coexist perfectly well with spell work. 

However, tarot readings are a completely different matter. When my customers order them, the consequences eventually land on my desk. This gives me full jurisdiction to speak about the topic.

The truth is that psychic ability is real, but only an extremely limited number of individuals have a genuine aptitude for divination. In the US alone, the tarot industry employed about 105,000 people in 2024. It is simply a mathematical question to realize that it is statistically impossible for all of them to be truly gifted.

I want to explain why tarot readings interfere with spells and why I consistently advise against them during that period. 

By the end of this article, you will understand why you should stay away from readings after a demonic ritual.

 

What Tarot Has Always Fascinated Us

The origin of tarot is still elusive. It's not clear when it began to be used for divination but it's know that it was a card game for late-medieval Italian aristocrats.

Who actually created the first tarot for cartomancy? The credit belongs to Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla), who around 1788 designed the first deck explicitly for divination and wrote manuals explaining how to read it. 

This is the real turning point where tarot becomes a divinatory product. It was no longer a tool for play but a promise to reduce uncertainty, something humans have always been willing to pay for

People are not looking for tarot out of historical curiosity. They are looking for a professional tarot reader, someone who can divine fate, to tell them what the future holds. A fortune teller, who uses combinations of images to open a window into the future, can provide the answers that everyone needs. 

Life would be easier if we had all the answers in advance, instead of risking mistakes with irreversible consequences or sitting with the pain of volatility. For centuries, even kings and emperors relied on divination before making decisions when too much was at stake. Many became deeply dependent on it, unable to make a significant move without consulting a clairvoyant first, often sliding into insecurity, suspicion, and erratic behavior.

Does that sound familiar?

Today, the impulse is the same. Instead of consulting oracles before wars, treaties or the deliver of an heir to the throne, we turn to tarot readings online to know whether a man will call.

 

From Palaces to the Streets

There's a strong negative stigma when it comes to tarot readings and no wonder. It is an industry saturated with frauds and charlatans. How did this happen?

Tarot soon migrated from aristocratic palaces and salons into the streets. In other words, the practice left protected social places and entered raw economic survival mode. For people operating in poverty, readings were another way to eat. This created pressure to be immediately impressive and captivating, deliver fast results and satisfy emotional expectations. 

For example, one of the most common divinations were the who you will marry. “You will marry a tall dark-haired man, you’ll meet him soon”. This type of prediction literally travels, becoming dinner-table gossip, whispered secrets, and collective fantasy. This is how word of mouth starts. Humans love to repeat stories and dramatic claims. Soon, every lady wanted a reading

One of the stereotypes that crystallized in the public imagination was the image of the itinerant fortune-teller as a scammer, a perception that persists to this day. Why?

In Europe, the vehemence of anti-Romani prejudice turned gypsy people into convenient scapegoats. European Roma (kalderash) were ostracized, making it impossible for them to access the social stability and lifestyles demanded by society. Poorly treated and forced to keep to themselves, Romani communities were excluded from land ownership and repeatedly targeted by expulsion laws. When legitimate work is denied, informal economies emerge. 

Survival in these conditions demands creativity. 

As pagans of Indian origin, Romani women have always had an impressive knowledge of herbal medicine, midwifery, evil-eye curses and of course, folk witchcraft. This association made them desirable points of contact for people seeking spiritual help. 

Unfortunately, the moment a genuine practitioner became visible and financially compensated, a dangerous shift occurred: divination was understood by the community as a side hustle as valid as any other. Payment was immediate and discreet, ideally suited to people with restricted access to formal banking systems. Non-registrable, easy to perform everywhere, impossible to regulate or tax, and socially tolerated, divination functioned as an optimal activity under exclusionary systems.

The issue was never that Romani readers were deceptive. The issue was the scale: for every authentic clairvoyant, hundreds of imitators eventually emerged.

And fakes spread quicker and earn more.

 

 

This also explains the carnivalesque aesthetic of 20th-century tarot.

Romani gravitated toward carnivals because they were one of the few accessible economic spaces available. Historically, traveling markets were temporary, cash-based, and open to outsiders. For nomad communities excluded from permanent shops and formal contracts, vaudeville circuits matched perfectly their life patterns. 

Once tarot shared space with freak shows and illusions, it gained the role of spectacle. To compete for attention, readings became louder, faster, and more visually striking. Extravagant clothing, oversized jewelry, scarves, and crystal balls were not part of some ancient tradition, but practical tools simply meant to catch the eye and pull people in. A quiet reading doesn't stop foot traffic.

At this point, no distinction is made between a Romani woman practicing inherited divination, a carnival performer and a modern scammer copying the look. 

 

The Cold Reading Trap

Readers are confident, bold and good listeners. Easy street scam life - smart. As emotionally intelligent people, they can learn a lot about you just from your facial expressions and even the way you dress. When you meet someone for the first time, communication starts immediately. Within three or four minutes, a practiced reader can form a surprisingly accurate impression of how you see yourself and how you relate to the world.

Tarot readers use a convincing method called cold reading. It's essentially combining high-probability guesses with a carefully elaborated language. Thus, they only need to use generic common-sense and a good prose to make the customer think "a-ha!", with no real divination involved. What is your body language saying? Are your eyes confirming or denying what you are listening? 

The power of the technique, used first by the hustlers of the carnivals, lies in observation, suggestion, and the human tendency to recognize ourselves in broad, emotionally charged statements, a mechanism still used in tarot readings online. Even when a clairvoyant or medium cannot see you in person, age, profile photographs, usernames, and the first message sent "to explain the situation" often revealing far more than intended — provide sufficient material to construct a psychological profile. Combined with years of experience, this information allows readers to tailor their language with remarkable precision. Patterns repeat across demographics, and knowing what to say becomes less a matter of intuition than of probability.

The claims are indeed vague and it's easy to the person to project meaning onto them. For example: "someone is jealous of you". Everyone can find a way to make that feel true and personal, even though nothing concrete was said. 

 

The Mass Market Tarot Industry

With social media, the tarot market is more horrendous than ever. Charlatanism removes limits and ethics and the internet provides the perfect conditions for that behavior to flourish.

The entry points into the sales funnel come in all flavors: cheap readings, free readings, same hour readings,“limited availability” claims, and private DMs promising clarification. The promise of fast delivery is specially irresistible. 

Usually, as the client is ripe the moment they press order now, these strategies are not meant to be profitable but to start the loop. After this, the intention is to lower resistance and increase dependency. “Messages for today” and “pick a card” readings function as dopamine loops and normalize compulsive consumption. Free readings as marketing funnels then evolved to private readings to clarify the first one. Tarot sessions that contradict the first so the customer needs to order the third.

Each repeated reading subtly teaches that your intuition is unreliable, your will needs confirmation and any action requires permission. This trains submission, not insight.

The readings have no depth, no preparation and are produced at high volume. Which is exactly the point. 

 

When Divination Becomes Directive

As a practitioner accustomed to dealing with people terrified after a tarot session, I can confirm that the readings that unsettle the most are fear-based ones. They work by introducing a threat or an enemy they didn't know they had. 

There's negative energy around you.

Someone is working against you.

Another woman is doing spells on you. 

The intention is to send the client away with more problems than when they arrived. 

Because tarot does not resolve situations, uncertainty inevitably comes back. It's almost impossible to dismantle the belief once it’s planted. The reading has done its work. Reassurance contradicts what has already been sold as insight. 

Real or not, divination has the potential to interfere with decision-making. If a reader says that your partner is the love of your life, you may stay in the relationship when you shouldn't because leaving would mean contradicting what was presented as destiny. The same applies to other areas of life. You may feel drawn toward a profession, a move, or a personal risk, only to abandon it because a reading suggested failure. The reading closes the path before it is even tested.

This pattern reached a disastrous point during the twin flame insanity that occurred a decade ago. People were suffering in unstable, obsessive, or emotionally abusive dynamics with their so-called soul mates, and psychics reinforced the belief, reframing distress as proof of spiritual depth. 

The moment a prediction is introduced, it becomes a reference point. From that moment on, choices are no longer neutral. Divination becomes directive.

This dynamic is illustrated clearly in the fourth season of Vikings. It's one of the best scenes in the entire series. Ragnar, who went from believer to agnostic to totally atheist to believer again, is confident that he's truly been the architect of his own destiny. 

He is the only one to defy the seer in the end, openly accusing him of manipulating Lagertha into believing she would never be a mother again. That prediction made her negligent in battle when she gets with child: Lagertha fights as she were not pregnant, considering there was no point in protecting her baby. Ragnar exposes the flaw in this logic by making it clear that her stubborn behavior transformed the prophecy into a fact.

The dialogue, inspired by the ancient Norse poem Krákumál (“The Lay of Kráka”), explains flawlessly how we react to the things we are told about ourselves from others and the conscious choice in the face of fate. 

 

Why Tarot Readings Interfere With Spells

What is the negative correlation between tarot readings and spells? This is simple. Rituals of any kind rely on clarity of intention and internal coherence, and readings introduces alternative explanations and conditional outcomes.

Tarot operates through analysis and possibility. Ritual work operates through intention and execution. Combining the two at the wrong moment introduces interference.

This becomes especially problematic when working with demons. When someone orders a ritual, they are entering into a process that requires alignment and a minimum degree of trust. That trust is not blind faith but coherence between what is asked for and how one behaves afterward. 

Ordering tarot readings after a spell is never a neutral action. It's a signal that communicates hesitation. In practical terms, it shows that the person who requested the ritual does not yet trust the process they have set in motion. Approaching demons while questioning the outcome reflects a lack of confidence, when stepping back and allowing the process to move without constant inspection is the correct mode of engagement.

You initiated a spell working, set terms, and then immediately began to question it. Ask yourself how this constant checking is interpreted. 

From a Luciferian perspective, divination goes against our principles. When a problem presents, the response is not to endlessly interpret its meaning, but to act upon it. Each reading invites another question, another interpretation, another delay. Tarot is ineffective because it keeps the person circling instead of advancing. 

As I always say: we do not read the future. We create it.