Cartomancy

The card readings, also called card reading or Chartomantik ( Cartomancy Art), is a part of prophecy. The fortune teller sees himself in a position with the help of playing cards (this can include special cards such as Lenormand, Gypsies, tipper, Angel, Moon oracle and tarot cards, but also an ordinary Skatblatt be ) about situations, people and future to be able to say something, without the need for factual knowledge. The predictions find their limit at the psychological skills of the card depositor and the Communication joy of the questioner. Scientifically speaking, predicting the future is not possible from the position of cards.

History

The Cartomancy said to have originated from the 7th century in China, as there developed the wood block printing, also with the playing cards came into vogue, which were soon used as a divination cards. In Europe, the card reading came in the 15th century, probably by Travelling people as a fairground attraction, but had no social relevance. Only in the 18th century, mainly by French occultists the card reading became a popular phenomenon that continues today.

Process

The card readers define their own activities than getting assistance with the aim of solving problems. To determine the current life situation through the Tarot and close to the so- obtained knowledge of it for the future. During this process, the fortune teller sees any potential future prospects, due to which he created his prognosis. All knowledge is already included in every human being, without being able to access it.

To this end, the fortune tellers shuffles the cards and spreads them out according to specific patterns and images, the different positions often bear names like current situation, fears and hopes, or future events. From the specified card meanings associated with the map position of the fortune teller wants to read something that allows a look into the future and should be suitable for survival analysis.

Recent developments of reading the cards

In the last third of the 20th century, the New Age Movement of esotericism and thus the card reading gave a lot of popularity. During this period numerous derivatives of the popular card decks. Both print media, the internet, various television stations and telephone hotlines and special esoteric scene shops now offer a variety of game types of card reading.

Enforceability of the fee

To what extent fees for commercial Cartomancy are enforceable, is legally controversial in Germany. On one hand, contracts obviously impossible services such as clairvoyance are void, that is, that the provider is not entitled to the agreed payment. On the other hand, was the Federal Court in 2011, that even in an objectively impossible the performance fee liability not attributable, if both parties have agreed in the context of freedom of contract on services that you can understand as the " year of market-like entertainment." The applicant had already received more than € 35,000 from the defendants for numerous telephone life coaching based on cartomancy and now demanded the payment of additional € 6,700. The case was referred back to the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart and ended with a settlement.