I don’t want to spam that anon’s ask so I’m going to make a new post.
I have to agree with imyonqsoo here. To some extent I trust my own tarot readings for myself, but I’ve been reading for myself for over a decade and I’ve proven that I know my own cards well enough to do that. Plus, I’m not going to take that as a definitive answer to whatever question I’m asking, it’s just a way to look at things from another perspective, the same as asking a friend their opinion on the issue; only you know if you’re kin and while getting another opinion can help you sort out your feelings you’re still the one who needs to come to a conclusion on your own.
What you’re doing here is wrong. Kids are looking for answers to hard questions, answers they aren’t going to get from anything but a lot of introspection and soul searching, and you’re acting like you can give them the answers they’re desperately looking for without any work and of course they’re going to believe you some of the time because they want to be able to believe it. You could be setting people on the wrong path and who knows how far they’re going to go in the wrong direction before they realize their mistake in trusting these answers?
Even people who are well versed with divination will tell you (I’ve actually been researching this lately for something unrelated) that a pendulum is more of a tool for getting answers from your subconscious than for divination because you do alter the results, you have to, that’s how it works, you’re the one giving the answer.
Even if you were using a more trustworthy method of divination like tarot or runes or bones, if you know what you’re doing you should know that the further you are spiritually/emotionally from the person you’re reading the less accurate it’s going to be. How are you getting enough of a feel for an anonymous person to do a reading in the first place?
This whole thing just seems like a really bad idea.
The kin communities are also not strangers to people using them for abusive ends. Forcing people into taking on identities that aren’t there (or suppressing what they actually are), pretending to have certain soulbonds to gain leverage over someone, and luring the young and/or mentally ill in with promises of physical shifting… it’s all there, and pretending to have intimate knowledge of the identities of other people is no less screwed up.
I don’t trust anyone who thinks they can tell anyone else what they are, especially based on absolutely no knowledge of the person and what might be relevant to them. Guiding someone through their self-discovery is a whole different animal, but this Quick Fix fad of readings on tumblr is a terrible meme, and I believe 100% that it’s related to the folks who keep posting begging for people to tell them “what their kin is” and whatnot. The patterns are obvious when you’ve been watching this nonsense go on here for a while. :T
@nonhumanity-and-nonsense wrote a long thing on why pendulum readings in particular are so damn dodgy and terrible for this sort of thing, but I don’t have it saved.
Important thoughts. There’s no substitute for introsepction and self discovery when searching for answers like these.
