I hang out in rationalist-adjacent circles primarily, and people are often confused about my interest in divination and tarot. I can understand their skepticism about astrology (my interest in which is a topic for another post), but I often think that bayesianism and divination are more complementary than they are given credit for. If you think about causality and influence in a purely linear way, it makes sense to be skeptical of what is seemingly interpretation of signal from noise. But, there are a few non-woo reasons I find tarot interesting. The first is that the "noise" given to you by a divination session (be it tarot or otherwise) functions as a sort of external system-prompt, allowing you to recurse in a new direction. The stochastic element introduces high-entropy input into your information processing system. Tarot cards are sufficiently vague such that pulling "The Magician" in the "present" slot of a "past, present, future" spread can cause you to think about the ways you are beginning a creative endeavor, how you are using your skills, what is influencing you spiritually, etc. You allow the cards to prompt you, giving you a new perspective on the present moment. The second is there seems to be less noise than people expect. The causal network we exist within is complicated. So complicated that a single person, or even large group of persons, can not understand all the mechanisms that holistically lead to a given outcome. I've spoken before about how I think the Collective Unconscious (in the jungian sense) lives in the edges between the nodes of the human race. That is to say, I think that our method of communication is highly compressed, and there is far more information contained in those compressed packets than we are aware of. That is to say, the actual conversations we have with each other are only one layer of the human communication array. On other layers, we are communicating through body language, pheromones, and environmental triggers. I.e., placing your backpack on the ground, indicating an intention to stay for a while. In many situations, there is even a subtle resonance effect that seems to occur between two entities with similarly arranged systems - perhaps due to thought or behavior patterns that are homomorphic for one another. I posit that there is enough information bandwidth in language and all of these seemingly tertiary methods of data transmission to sustain the collective unconscious. I also posit that it is a little bit more than unconscious. If you are interested in a non-dual analysis of how our minds are all linked together, the most sophisticated ongoing experiment is the Global Consciousness Project run out of Princeton (https://noosphere.princeton.edu/). They track global events and the effect they seem to have on quantum random number generation - an important step in what could eventually be a unifying theory of non-dual consciousness. In the context of a non-dual interconnected global-mind, the idea that some complicated series of events can lead to you shuffling your tarot deck in a certain way and pulling a certain card to steer your path in a certain direction becomes less absurd. It might even allow you to grok the possibility that these events may be conscious, and aware of your individual path within the greater telos. Unconsciously, you may even just remember that the Magician card in your deck has a little tear on the top left, and it might be the card that is necessary to steer you in the right direction. Regardless of your intuitions here, I think that the ability to step outside of your normative frame for a while is universally beneficial when trying to solve hard problems or live a good life.