Do tarot cards and Ouija boards, or spirit talking boards, open portals to hell and connect
you to demonic forces?
Okay, some of you spiritual New Age witchy people might not like or agree with my answer.
So.
Do tarot cards and Ouija boards connect you to demons?
Maybe…
I would say, however, not without your consent.
I think that’s the scariest part of all, to be honest.
It’s scary to think that you wanted to, that you connected to it all on your own,
with your personal power, your free will, with full consent.
You can’t get tricked, unless you wanted to get tricked.
This gets a bit into Jungian psychology and the shadow, your inner beast, and if that
inner beast is untamed, and you do possess this darkness deep within that you haven’t
integrated with your conscious self, then yeah, my opinion, my perspective is that you
can absolutely use tarot cards and spirit talking boards to connect with demons.
But I think the rub is, you can’t blame the cards or Ouija board for that.
It’s not the object.
It’s the subject.
You.
You did it.
When the mob mentality takes over in riot situations, ever notice how perfectly fine
citizens and civilized people who otherwise consider themselves urbane can suddenly douse
a total stranger in gasoline and set him on fire?
True story.
That happened in Hong Kong.
A bunch of Hong Kong kids in masks lit a working class man on fire, because they got into a
disagreement over politics.
Think about the hate crimes that mobs can carry out, especially when they’re wearing
masks and hiding their external, their conscious, outward persona.
When your inner beast is unleashed so it can come out and play, what the hell are you capable
of?
Isn’t that the scariest question of all?
That is why a wise occultist is constantly, constantly doing shadow work, confronting
your own inner demons and integrating them with your outer self, not putting on some
fake patina of love and light and goodness.
Because don’t you want to make sure that you are someone who is never, ever, ever capable
of dousing someone in gasoline and lighting them on fire just because you’ve got a mask
on and you got caught up in the moment?
When you can hide behind the veil of anonymity, what kind of harm are you capable of inflicting
on another?
I know you right now.
You’re shaking your head vigorously, no, no, no I could never be capable of doing such
a thing.
I am not capable of that kind of evil.
Are you sure?
I mean it.
Are you really, really sure?
How capable are you of truly, truly evil and vile acts?
Isn’t that the question?
When demons purportedly come through in a tarot reading or through a Ouija board, or
when there’s a deceiver in the midst, it’s actually a truthful barometer detecting what
your inner beast looks like.
When you say oh, there’s this demon from hell, you know, not me, outside, far away,
coming here, to me, it’s like a veil of anonymity and distance, detachment, that makes
it comfortable enough for your beast to come out and for you to feel absolved from blame
from what that beast might be capable of.
See, tarot cards, in my opinion as an experienced occultist, is nothing more than a neutral
mirror that reflects the truth.
And whether you are ready for it or not, sometimes, the truth is, there is something really, really
ugly deep down.
So blaming the tarot cards is kind of goofy.
It’s you.
You…did that.
And you wanted to.
You cannot connect to those darker energies without full consent.
Just like that Hong Kong kid who lit that guy on fire did it with full volition, with
his free will.
Maybe he got caught up in the moment and forgot his civility.
Maybe he lost his way for a minute there and the goodness in his heart, and I believe there
is goodness there, temporarily disappeared.
But it doesn’t matter.
He still did it.
So, it’s not so much Hollywood movie supernatural fantasy fiction devil demons that come out.
At least I don’t personally believe in that kind of thing.
It’s more to the effect of a psychic demonic energy you’ve conjured up from your own
inner psyche.
Oh it’s real, because it can have a real life impact on you.
But it isn’t someone arriving on scene, putting a gun to your head and telling you,
douse that poor, innocent laborer with gasoline and now set him on fire.
That’s not how it works.
And I think that’s why it’s so, so freakin’ scary.
It’s you.
You did something you totally wanted to do.
You unleashed an inner aspect of you that you’ve always instinctively wanted to let
out.
It’s you, you totally wanting to do it right from the start and now that ugly inner part
of you has come out to the surface and has taken over.
“Demons” can only come out and chit chat through a spirit talking board and you can
only be deceived by spirits if that energy exists inside of you, if you possess within
the capability of being a Deceiver.
Also, while we’re on the subject of religion, let’s talk about Divinity.
What is Divinity?
Who is the one true, the real God?
I think this is something you have to feel, you have to personally experience and bear
witness for you to be able to verify what’s of God and what’s not.
But there are a couple of baseline pointers.
Fear and fear-mongering is never God.
Just, never.
When people get that manic, panicked look in their eyes over evil and demons and stuff.
That’s not of the Light.
That’s of a deceiver scared that it’s about to get outed.
Light, as soon as it shines, disperses the darkness.
Full stop.
So it just doesn’t have anything to be manic or panicked about.
Hate, anger, resentment, division, destruction, blame, suppression of speech, suppression
of liberties….
That is also never of God, never of Divinity and of the Light.
Tarot cards channel the Light, and Love, and healing, and offer the revelation of higher
purpose, of helping you to extinguish and exorcise your own inner demons.
One of the universal methodologies you read about in ritual magic, and it seems to be
a common thread connecting many different traditions and cultures of ritual magic—
is this concept that you need to do Confession-- or some form of inner shadow work— meditation,
prayer, where you’re forewarned not to engage in spiritual practice until you’ve got your
physical world and mental state in check.
I do believe that neither tarot cards nor Ouija boards can call forth demonic energies
if you are of the Light and living fully in the Light.
Why?
Because like I said, where the Light shines, darkness disperses.
There can be no darkness where there is illumination.
If you are a beacon of the Light, you can be at a church pulpit, in temple, slinging
tarot cards on a kitchen table, or with a group of friends moving about a planchette
across a Ouija board, drawing inverted pentagrams in the woods at midnight following a medieval
black magic grimoire, it doesn’t matter.
If you are of the Light, darkness cannot be present.
Correction: I meant to say darkness cannot harm you.
It can probably still be present.
So.
If you’re afraid of unleashing demons in a tarot reading or when using a Ouija board,
does that mean you should avoid these tools?
Probably.
But here’s the thing.
That doesn’t make the inner demon go away and it most certainly doesn’t mean that
darkness within doesn’t exist.
It just means now you’re hiding from it.
You haven’t dealt with it.
And…the sad reality?
Do you realize what it is you’re choosing not to confront, not to fully integrate into
your conscious, aware self?
You’re choosing not to confront the reality that maybe you are capable of being that college
kid who lit a 50-something year old man on fire just because he disagreed with him on
politics.
Please don’t think that and tarot cards are not related.
They’re intimately related.
When someone, wide-eyed, with that manic panicked look on their face, tells me that tarot cards
open portals to hell and trickster demons could be pretending to be spirit guides, ancestors,
and what not chatting it up with me, how would I respond?
Well.
I would nod emphatically, and I agree with them.
Yeah.
Yes.
That’s true.
Here’s the paradox.
A deceiver can only deceive one who was already deceived to begin with.
Eh?
Wrap your mind around that, Internet!
Knowledge, wisdom, self-awareness, and faith are forms of illumination, and where there
is illumination, darkness cannot subsist.
The tarot reflects the truths we otherwise don’t see, or didn’t want to see about
ourselves.
I would rather not be deceived so that a deceiver cannot deceive me, than remain in darkness,
where irrespective of tarot cards, no matter where I run and try to hide, darkness could
follow and overtake me in a moment of personal weakness.
And here’s the thing.
If you actually expand the scope of your observation, you might notice something interesting.
People who accuse tarot and Ouija boards of being evil don’t just think these two things
exclusively are evil.
They actually think a ton of things in this world are evil.
Everywhere they look, they see evil.
Isn’t that…interesting?
So maybe… it’s not the tarot…it’s not the objects…but rather, it’s something
a whole lot more subjective…
Don’t be afraid of darkness.
Just be a Light.
And there’s really nothing more to it than that.
Now, with my Spirit Keeper’s Tarot deck, that’s the deck I created, as a creator,
I went out of my way to encode a psychic defense system, one that only allowed beneficent spirit
interactions.
Forms of ritual and sigil magic were encrypted into the deck and its box so that it was very
much intended to be a sacred tool.
And while it’s most certainly a deck for communion with angels, I wouldn’t say it’s
like a fluffy hug.
Okay I don’t think anyone thinks that…
I think there can still be something quite formidable about the deck exactly because
it’s tapping in to that Astral Light, a highly potent…magnetism, the Azoth, if you
will.
So that’s why there will be no demon summoning or opening of portals of hell with Spirit
Keeper’s Tarot, even if you try.
And whoever says they’re coming through will always be exactly who is coming through,
no trickster energies, only the unveiled Truth.
And yet I do still think it can be a tough deck, because I do think encounters with the
Azoth, the alpha-omega, can be…daunting.
But those are just my thoughts on whether or not tarot cards and even Ouija boards can
open portals to hell.
What are your thoughts?
When you hear people say, “Oh, don’t touch tarot cards or Ouija boards, because you never
know what kind of demonic spirit you might be talking to,” what is your response?