People who have less control of their life gravitate towards it. Watched so many of my past friends fall into being "spiritual".
Because when you can't take accountability for things in your life, its because you are a sagittarius, or maybe certain rocks can help. It surely can't be you, or your situation.
I work in a lab at a company steeped in science and one of the self proclaimed manliest men there can gab like a school girl about astrology. Makes zero sense.
I’ve wondered this myself. I grew up in a very conservative Christian home, which led to me rejecting religion by the time I was in my mid-teens. As an adult, I want nothing to do with anything “spiritual”.
It’s because of our thirst for something higher in this universe or something greater than our worldly existence. Being an atheist is actually tough in our current society. Not tough as in being persecuted but more of the fact that you don’t get to believe in a happily ever after.
I’d consider myself an agnostic person, used to be atheist. But after losing some friends and family and loved ones, I hope there’s some sort of peace or reconciliation after death. I don’t really pray or base my actions on religion, but I do hope something better awaits. If not, then I wouldn’t know anyway.
This is the reason so many people leave organized religion and then get lost in spirituality and new age mysticism. They’re trying to solve their problems in the same old way but with new gods and priests, without the trauma from their old ones. That’s why some people go with the “we’re all energy or that universe is guiding me and I’ll be one with the universe after death” because the idea of an uncaring reality, sans morality or justice is scary.
Tarot isn’t worshipping something so much as it is asking the universe/spirits/etc for guidance. Some people use tarot without working with deities, others do, but tarot readings (speaking from firsthand experience) can be scary accurate to whatever situation you’re consulting about.
Each card has their own meaning, so to get several in a row in the same reading that are relevant to the user’s question/plea for guidance and none that aren’t is remarkable. It’s happened for me several times.
Edit: I’m someone who needs evidence of things, too, btw, and I’ve been convinced.
I spent a good year diving into tarot cards, readings, meanings etc.
Was very interesting and opened my mind to a lot of things I would be thinking about subconsciously.
But like any sane and rational person, there's no magic or spirits or anything to do with it, each card's reading in its position is general enough for anyone to make a connection to it. Just like the episode of South Park where everyone thinks Stan is clairvoyant.
ive coming behind and been upvoting you, its not fair to you that these people have no grasp of the importance of spiritual practice for humanity. Really sad, actually
I've seen it parroted since I was younger and just anecdotal. As I grew I saw it more and more. Turning things over to a higher power isn't new for people who have messed up for sure.
It’s a touchpoint for spirituality that doesn’t feel like it’s an already built hierarchy favoring and prioritizing men for centuries or millennia, like many more accepted religions that are equally full of superstition and supernatural claims.
Choosing something that serious, with literally immeasurable consequences for eternity, based on that feels so foreign to me, like maybe they actually know it's bullshit? I could understand rejecting patriarchical religions on the basis that "god isn't like that", but to me it REALLY looks like it's just an aesthetic for the new wave astrology people.
Just seems like they treat it so flippantly, if you actually believe in the spiritual, shouldn't it be a pretty dang serious issue 🤔
No. Not everyone who is spiritual believes there are ‘consequences’ to being spiritual. That’s very much a factor in religions that believe strongly in things like a judgment-based afterlife, but if you don’t believe in that, it absolutely does not have to be that serious.
I guess that makes sense, if you arrive at that point in a honest way. Idk, as someone without faith, if I had it, it would be the most important thing in my life.
As someone who LEFT a high consequences religion, I never want anything to be that important to me again. Many religions of the past focused much more on behavior than faith and ‘believing’ meant very little, which I find very valuable. Belief is not really a choice and behavior is; what I believe means very little about me if my actions do not reflect it.
Also, many people do not think of things like astrology and tarot as spiritual/religious-adjacent. They see it as simply something that’s there to be used, in the same way that ‘it feels/looks like rain’ does not involve receiving any supernatural, prophetic information about the weather.
It all goes along with a certain level of narcissism / "main character syndrome" or whatever the new term is. They MUST be more special than anyone else, that's why they have sPeCiAl PoWeRs or a "higher knowledge" that the average person doesn't or can't achieve.
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u/Affectionate_Ad2759 13d ago
Why is it mostly women who are passionate about occult superstition like Witchcraft, Astrology, or Tarot card shit?