Whether offering them as part of Halloween festivities or presenting them as a pathway to enlightenment, there is no shortage of tarot card readings in colleges and universities right now.
Psychic tarot readings are used for divination and divination, according to PsychicSource.com, which notes that “a reader uses the cards to discover patterns, energies, and tendencies that can help interpret your current situation and predict future events”.
The Guardianin a recent article titled “When the Mystical Goes Mainstream: How the Tarot Became a Self-Care Phenomenon,” reports that tarot readings are experiencing a “mainstream resurgence in recent years” thanks to their popularity on social media platforms. , a wide availability of online readings, and a growing acceptance of New Age beliefs.
This trend is visible on campus. On the one hand, as part of the Halloween festivities this year.
Amherst College included the cards as part of its “Spooktacular Game Night”. St. Cloud State University offered readings in its “haunted maze.” Dixie State University’s “Chaos” Halloween party featured both tarot readings and a fortune teller. A Greek Life Halloween party at Kenyon College advertised its tarot readings as a way to ‘explore your creative and spiritual sides’.
But Halloween is not required to offer such services.
An apartment complex serving California University of Pennsylvania has implemented “Tarot Tuesday” card readings. The University of Hawaii Pacific’s Campus Activities Board offered them as “beneficial and insightful”, but cautioned students that “all psychic readings are for entertainment purposes only”.
At least one university — Emory — has included tarot readings this year as part of its homecoming celebrations. At Brandeis University, students use tarot cards as one of many ways to deal with breakups, along with enneagrams and astrology.
Earlier this year, the “Office of Spirituality and Meaningmaking” at Evergreen State University launched a daily tarot card reading. The email announcing the readings explained that they would provide “insight and practice” for students.
Even DePaul University’s Center for Humanities, a Catholic institution, is hosting an event called “The Tarot: Clarifying the Past, Present, and Future.” Its online description asks, “How could art be a means to achieve our expedient goals? How do human practices, rooted in tradition, also point to possible answers? »
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