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Additiction? to tarot cards I can't control	Candice	Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Question: When I was about 10 years old, I saw a deck of tarot cards in a drugstore window. They were too expensive for me to buy, but they seemed to csst a spell on me and I would be mesmerized with longing every time I passed that window. Then when I was 14 my dad gave me a set of the cards for my birthday. At first I couldn't put them down, but every reading predicted doom and failure (which has all come true in my life since, no matter how I struggle to escape my fate). I knew divination was a sin, but for several weeks I was addicted and could not stop messing with the cards. I was terrified of displeasing God and began having nightmares about the cards, until things got so bad I threw them in the trash. The odd thing was that this was that although I was raised in a masonic family as an atheist, just a few months before being given the cards, I had attended a Christian meeting with friends and had gone forward to be baptized and accepted Jesus as Lord. My dad was contemptuous of my new faith and would curse me out for bringing a Bible under his roof. After I disposed of the cards, my faith seemed to weaken, and I stopped attending church for years and 'conformed' to my father's 'scientific' atheism (later I found some of his private writings showing he was involved in demonic evocation with his lodge buddies. He was killed in a traffic accident several years later.) Somehow through my life the cards would not leave me alone. A year of two later, I was given another set as a gift (by my mother!) The same cycle of compulsion and temptation started up, until I found the strength to dispose of them again. This has continued up until the present, with people, almost always relatives (all involved in masonry, wicca, satanism etc.), who know I am Christian, sending the decks. Sometimes I also felt compelled to buy extra sets of cards myself (there are many different designs and artists in this growing industry) based on themes that attracted me, such as nature and wildlife. I was even given a deck based on Catholic Holy Cards, depicting authentic images of Saints. After the previous bad experiences I never attempted to 'read' the cards again, AND I RARELY EVEN UNSEALED OR LOOKED AT THE CARDS WITHIN THEIR BOXES. Yet I became obsessed with their history and the idea that there could be some kind of secret wisdom or code hidden in the symbolism. Five years ago made a renewed commitment to Christ. I attend church weekly, and try to lead a good Christian life. I have tried to rid my home of the numerous tarot sets and other occult materials that accumulated over many years. Yet today, I opened a closet and found another box of the cards hidden deep in a corner that I truly didn't realise I even owned. I have no memory of how I ever obtained them, or even of hiding them there. And when I go into a bookstore and happen to see tarot decks on display, I still find myself seized by a powerful and overwhelming compulsion that I must OWN them (this is visceral and way more powerful than sex) and start to feel dizzy and disorientated. I no longer give way to this, and when I find the self-possession, I try to pray against it and leave the store. Meantime I am chronically sick with MS, unemployed (and too sick now to work), struggling with debt and poverty, and unhappily divorced (a solid history of being abandoned and rejected in relationships.) I am childless due to fertility issues. I am also a serial victim of serious crime (including rape, assault, mugging, vandalism, burglary and car theft) with no constructive help from the police and despite taking every material and spiritual precaution I can. I know these are all markers for curses and spiritual warfare. I have prayed deliverance prayers adapted from your catalogue daily for over two years, but the problems are getting worse and I am in danger of being made homeless. How can I break this curse? Thank you for your help.
Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r), CCL, LTh, DD, LNDC Dear Candice: I am sorry to hear about these troubles. While you're describing is a bondage to these cards. You'll have to work hard to be released from this bondage and curse. You are to be congratulated for the hard work you've already done to come back to the faith and to live a good Christian life. That your mother and family members apparently are still active in Santeria the you'll probably need to pray the breaking curses and spells on a regular basis. In addition you need to pray the hedge prayer protection, renouncing ancestral sins (which you'll need to pray on a regular basis given that family members are currently involved in occult activities. None of this is going to get solved overnight, as you have already found out. You'll need to persevere through the suffering and offer up that suffering to God for the salvation of your family. Perseverance is the key to the Christian life as hard as it is to persevere. There are some proactive things that you want to do that I would suggest. Because you have a bondage to these cards you need to stay away from any place where these cards may be. If that means you can never go into a bookstore again and that is what it means. Do you can buy books from Amazon and in less you go specifically looking for tarot cards you should not see them when you buy a book off Amazon. Secondly, you need to tell your family members to stop sending you tarot cards or any other occult paraphernalia. If your family fails to respect you on this point that means they do not love you. In that case you may need to divorce your family sort-of-speak. That means not have anything more to do with them. That means change your telephone number perhaps. That means and more extreme cases of even moving to a new address and not telling them what your new address is. But, if your family refuses to respect your wishes to not send you this garbage then truly, they do not love you, and for the sake of your soul, and your psychological and spiritual health, you need to distance yourself from them. These are the types of things you need to do. But, all of this must be done with the idea of perseverance, and of offering up your suffering in the meantime the God for the salvation of your family. It will be a difficult road but you must continue down that road and stay the course. In the long run you will be a stronger Christian because of these experiences if you allow God to make it so. Remember God's promises: Romans 8:28 "We know that in everything [the good and the bad] God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose." 1 Corinthians 10:13 "No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it." God keeps his promises. We will certainly be praying for you. God Bless, Bro. Ignatius Mary 　 For information on how to receive help see our Help page. We suggest that before contacting us directly for help you try the Seven Steps to Self-Deliverance. These self-help steps will often resolve the problem. Also our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog contains many prayers that may be helpful. If needed you can ask for a Personal Consultation.

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Additiction? to tarot cards I can't control

Candice

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

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When I was about 10 years old, I saw a deck of tarot cards in a drugstore window. They were too expensive for me to buy, but they seemed to csst a spell on me and I would be mesmerized with longing every time I passed that window.

Then when I was 14 my dad gave me a set of the cards for my birthday. At first I couldn't put them down, but every reading predicted doom and failure (which has all come true in my life since, no matter how I struggle to escape my fate).
I knew divination was a sin, but for several weeks I was addicted and could not stop messing with the cards. I was terrified of displeasing God and began having nightmares about the cards, until things got so bad I threw them in the trash.

The odd thing was that this was that although I was raised in a masonic family as an atheist, just a few months before being given the cards, I had attended a Christian meeting with friends and had gone forward to be baptized and accepted Jesus as Lord.

My dad was contemptuous of my new faith and would curse me out for bringing a Bible under his roof. After I disposed of the cards, my faith seemed to weaken, and I stopped attending church for years and 'conformed' to my father's 'scientific' atheism (later I found some of his private writings showing he was involved in demonic evocation with his lodge buddies. He was killed in a traffic accident several years later.)

Somehow through my life the cards would not leave me alone. A year of two later, I was given another set as a gift (by my mother!) The same cycle of compulsion and temptation started up, until I found the strength to dispose of them again.

This has continued up until the present, with people, almost always relatives (all involved in masonry, wicca, satanism etc.), who know I am Christian, sending the decks.

Sometimes I also felt compelled to buy extra sets of cards myself (there are many different designs and artists in this growing industry) based on themes that attracted me, such as nature and wildlife. I was even given a deck based on Catholic Holy Cards, depicting authentic images of Saints.

After the previous bad experiences I never attempted to 'read' the cards again, AND I RARELY EVEN UNSEALED OR LOOKED AT THE CARDS WITHIN THEIR BOXES. Yet I became obsessed with their history and the idea that there could be some kind of secret wisdom or code hidden in the symbolism.

Five years ago made a renewed commitment to Christ. I attend church weekly, and try to lead a good Christian life. I have tried to rid my home of the numerous tarot sets and other occult materials that accumulated over many years.

Yet today, I opened a closet and found another box of the cards hidden deep in a corner that I truly didn't realise I even owned. I have no memory of how I ever obtained them, or even of hiding them there.

And when I go into a bookstore and happen to see tarot decks on display, I still find myself seized by a powerful and overwhelming compulsion that I must OWN them (this is visceral and way more powerful than sex) and start to feel dizzy and disorientated. I no longer give way to this, and when I find the self-possession, I try to pray against it and leave the store.

Meantime I am chronically sick with MS, unemployed (and too sick now to work), struggling with debt and poverty, and unhappily divorced (a solid history of being abandoned and rejected in relationships.) I am childless due to fertility issues. I am also a serial victim of serious crime (including rape, assault, mugging, vandalism, burglary and car theft) with no constructive help from the police and despite taking every material and spiritual precaution I can. I know these are all markers for curses and spiritual warfare.

I have prayed deliverance prayers adapted from your catalogue daily for over two years, but the problems are getting worse and I am in danger of being made homeless.

How can I break this curse?

Thank you for your help.

Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r), CCL, LTh, DD, LNDC

Dear Candice:

I am sorry to hear about these troubles. While you're describing is a bondage to these cards. You'll have to work hard to be released from this bondage and curse. You are to be congratulated for the hard work you've already done to come back to the faith and to live a good Christian life.

That your mother and family members apparently are still active in Santeria the you'll probably need to pray the breaking curses and spells on a regular basis. In addition you need to pray the hedge prayer protection, renouncing ancestral sins (which you'll need to pray on a regular basis given that family members are currently involved in occult activities.

None of this is going to get solved overnight, as you have already found out. You'll need to persevere through the suffering and offer up that suffering to God for the salvation of your family. Perseverance is the key to the Christian life as hard as it is to persevere.

There are some proactive things that you want to do that I would suggest. Because you have a bondage to these cards you need to stay away from any place where these cards may be. If that means you can never go into a bookstore again and that is what it means. Do you can buy books from Amazon and in less you go specifically looking for tarot cards you should not see them when you buy a book off Amazon.

Secondly, you need to tell your family members to stop sending you tarot cards or any other occult paraphernalia. If your family fails to respect you on this point that means they do not love you. In that case you may need to divorce your family sort-of-speak. That means not have anything more to do with them. That means change your telephone number perhaps. That means and more extreme cases of even moving to a new address and not telling them what your new address is. But, if your family refuses to respect your wishes to not send you this garbage then truly, they do not love you, and for the sake of your soul, and your psychological and spiritual health, you need to distance yourself from them.

These are the types of things you need to do. But, all of this must be done with the idea of perseverance, and of offering up your suffering in the meantime the God for the salvation of your family.

It will be a difficult road but you must continue down that road and stay the course. In the long run you will be a stronger Christian because of these experiences if you allow God to make it so. Remember God's promises:

Romans 8:28 "We know that in everything [the good and the bad] God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose."

1 Corinthians 10:13 "No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it."

God keeps his promises.

We will certainly be praying for you.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary

For information on how to receive help see our Help page. We suggest that before contacting us directly for help you try the Seven Steps to Self-Deliverance. These self-help steps will often resolve the problem. Also our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog contains many prayers that may be helpful. If needed you can ask for a Personal Consultation.