I come across quite a bit of reluctance re-having a tarot reading, among some people, and I usually find it is due to Christian indoctrination. The tarot has been besmirched through ignorant fear mongering by representatives of the Christian church in an attempt to control their flock. I mean the whole idea of a devil, demons, Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer and all the rest is a fictitious creation of the Christian church. Like so much of the Christian religion the concept of these devils has been borrowed from earlier religions and their battling gods representing light and dark, good and evil etc. Beelzebub is derived from the bronze age Persian god Baal.
The Christian religion has magpied rituals and festivals – Xmas & Easter – from earlier religions and like a new franchise rebadged them their own. So that the majority of people who have emerged from Christian backgrounds have no idea where these concepts of good and evil etc have actually come from. They do not know why they may fear things like the tarot but in their ancestral collective subconscious minds they sense taboos and heretical condemnations, which led to things like witch hunts and burnings at the stake. There are sadly still a minority of people who maintain these ignorant and ancient beliefs.
My advice is if you feel a sense of foreboding about things like the tarot – then investigate it and the taboos put upon it by the Christian church. Find out for yourself!
