Can a Tarot card reading be defamatory?
Greetings. I&#x27;m rather new here and a friend steered me towards here.<p>I&#x27;m a pagan, and unfortunately this has caused a rather ugly stir in our communities.<p>In recent (last 1.5 years), TikTok has been the primary contributing &#x27;terrible occultists, witches, and pagans&#x27;. Their practices equate to what we would describe as cargo cultism, commercialism, and general lack of any understanding what we do. Most of us look down on the TikTok types, and we believe for good reason.<p>Now, tarot. For those of you unaware, it&#x27;s seen as a 78 card (standard card deck, with an extra card between jack and queen, and a new suit called trumps) divinatory method to be able to answer questions we have in our practices. There&#x27;s 2 major ways to do a reading : mechanically, and intuitively.<p>This person was doing an <i>intuitive</i> reading... Which is what makes this even uglier. And if it were just a mechanistic reading, you still have to deal with slightly different symbology changing the card descriptions.<p>Long story short, they should have never did a reading about someone else without permission. And they should have never did this publicly. And they should have never accused anyone from a reading. At all.<p>It is a spiritual practice, however. Basically it took a practice many of use privately, and brought it out in the open as some criminal tool... But without any of the science.