I Used to Lie in My Readings — My Confession

I need to tell you something.

For years, I lied in my tarot readings. Not all of them. Not every single card. But often enough that I can't call myself clean. I want to name it properly — what I did, why I did it, what it did to the people who came to me for honest answers. And then I want to tell you what changed.

If you've ever sat across from a tarot reader and felt something was off, you weren't imagining it.

What I Did and Why

When a client asked if their partner was cheating, and the cards said yes, I sometimes softened it. I framed it as "there's distance in the relationship" or "there's emotional confusion." I told myself I was being kind. I told myself the truth would only hurt them.

When someone asked if their ex would come back, and the cards said absolutely not — that person was moving on, building a new life, never looking back — I gave them hope. I pulled a card that could be interpreted as "yes, possible" and I leaned into that interpretation because that's what they wanted to hear. Because they cried when they asked. Because I didn't want to be the person who made it worse.

When a woman sat across from me and asked if her boyfriend would ever commit, and the cards were screaming no — Ten of Swords, Five of Cups, The Tower — I found a way to make it sound like he just needed more time.

I was afraid of being the messenger who got shot.

So I became a liar wearing a spiritual costume.

What That Actually Did

Here's what I need you to understand: those people came to me because something inside them already knew the truth.

The woman with the cheating partner — she had seen the text messages. She had noticed the late nights. Her intuition was screaming. She came to me hoping the cards would tell her she was wrong, that she was being paranoid, that everything was fine.

I gave her the out she was looking for. She stayed. For another eight months. In a relationship that was slowly destroying her.

The person asking about their ex — they already sensed it was over. The silence was loud. The unreturned calls told a story. They came to me for enough courage to actually let go. And I gave them false hope instead, because watching someone grieve felt worse than prolonging their pain.

They spent another year waiting for someone who had already deleted their number.

The woman wanting commitment — she knew. She had asked him directly and gotten a non-answer. She came to the cards because she couldn't trust her own perception anymore. And I fed her exactly the delusion she was hungry for, because watching someone wake up to a painful truth felt too cruel.

She's still waiting. Three years later. Still checking in with readers who will tell her what she wants to hear.

I thought I was being compassionate. I was just being cowardly. And the collateral damage was real.

How to Know If Your Reader Is Lying to You

I want to give you something useful here, because you deserve to know when you're being fed a story instead of a reading.

The Three Red Flag Combinations

If your reader consistently interprets these combinations as positive signals, you're not getting an honest reading:

Why Readers Lie (It's Not What You Think)

I want to be fair here, because I've been on the receiving end of this kind of exposure and it feels terrible.

Most tarot readers who lie aren't doing it maliciously. They're doing it because:

• They fear rejection. A reader who consistently tells people painful truths gets a reputation. People don't come back to readers who hurt their feelings, even when the hurt was necessary. The incentive structure rewards softness and punishes honesty.
• They lack confidence in their own reading. If you're unsure whether you're reading the cards correctly, it's easier to tell people what they want to hear than to stand behind an interpretation that might be wrong and painful.
• They confuse compassion with comfort. This was mine. I thought kindness meant not delivering hard truths. I didn't understand that the kindest thing you can do for someone in pain is give them clarity — even when clarity hurts in the moment.
• They're financially motivated. A client who gets the truth might not come back for six more readings about the same situation. A client who's being strung along keeps coming back. Some readers are running a business, not a spiritual service.

What Changed for Me

A woman came to me after a reading with another reader. She was devastated — not by what the cards said, but by what happened after. She had asked about her marriage, and the reader told her it was going to work out. Six months later, her husband filed for divorce. She had wasted six months trying to fix something that was already over, because someone gave her false hope.

She wasn't angry at her husband. She was angry at the reader. "I asked for the truth," she said. "That's the whole point of coming to someone like you. I could have started healing six months ago if anyone had just been honest with me."

That hit me somewhere deep.

I started paying attention to what was actually happening in my practice. I noticed which clients came back feeling empowered and which ones came back stuck — still asking the same questions, still chasing the same outcomes, still waiting for the reading that would finally tell them what they wanted to hear.

The ones who were stuck had all been told beautiful stories.

The ones who moved forward had all been told hard truths.

I wasn't helping people. I was creating dependency on a version of tarot that served my fear of confrontation more than their need for clarity.

What Eldrin Stands For

I can't undo the years I spent lying. I can't go back and give those clients the truth they deserved. But I can tell you what I've built since:

Eldrin was created to be the reader I wish I'd had.

Every reading on this platform is designed to tell you what the cards actually say — not what you want them to say, not what sounds nice, not what will keep you coming back. The truth. Sometimes that's beautiful. Sometimes that's painful. Always it's accurate.

If you come here asking if your situationship is going to become a real relationship, and the cards say no, we'll tell you. Because eight more months of hoping isn't kindness. It's a slow-motion disaster.

If you come here asking if you should stay in a marriage that's slowly draining the life out of you, and the cards show The Tower and The Devil together, we'll name that. We'll help you understand what it means. We'll give you the clarity to make your own decision, armed with real information.

This is what tarot is supposed to be. Not a vending machine for false comfort. Not a mirror that only shows you what you want to see. A tool for clarity — real, sometimes uncomfortable, always honest.

What This Means for You

If you've been burned by tarot readers who lied to you, I'm sorry. That damage is real and it compounds over time. Every false hope is a small theft — of your time, your energy, your ability to trust yourself.

You're allowed to be angry about that.

But I also want you to know: the answers you need are in there. In the cards, in your intuition, in the situation itself. A good reading doesn't tell you what to do — it gives you the clarity to see what was already true.

You don't need someone to tell you what you want to hear. You need someone to hold up a mirror and help you understand what you're actually looking at.

That's what we're here for.

The truth might not always feel good. But it's the only thing that actually helps.