Tarot on Television

Scene: Barney buys a fortune-telling game and lets Opie try it. The cards were under the spell of a count, and when the proper ritual was enacted they would grant wishes.

Scene: Tarot cards from the Sacred Rose Tarot fly away in the wind and end up on C.J. Parker, predicting her future.

Scene: Episode starts with several tarot readings by Destiny, clearly using the Sacred Rose Tarot deck. Destiny helps Mitch and Garner by relating her visions of a series of murders they are investigating until she "sees" that Ryan is the next victim.

Scene: Penny tries to help Sheldon be more spontaneous and they visit Ms. Davora, a psychic/tarot reader. She tries to gives Sheldon a psychic reading but doesn't consult the tarot cards laid out in front of her. Instead she channels information from Sheldon's spirit guides. When Ms. Davora is dead on Sheldon gets agitated and leaves, calling the whole experience "malarkey."

Scene: The Cosmic Tarot is presented as Willow's personal tarot deck. It is thrown away along with all of her other occult paraphernalia as she attempts to give up her addiction to magic.

Scene: The three friends perform a spell to join their abilities with those of the Slayer.

Scene: In a dream sequence, Tara explains to Buffy the problem raised by the magic circle in the previous episode.

Scene: Drusilla turns over the three cards and claims that some friends are coming to kill the Slayer. In fact Spike has called in the order of Taraka. At several points in the two part episode, Drusilla turns over cards to predict events, announcing when assassins have arrived in Sunnydale.

Scene: While Tara browses through the deck, she and Willow discuss that the magic shop needs somebody who can read fortunes.

Scene: Ben, played by Nick Stahl, gets a tarot reading from Sofie. The cards evoke the past, transformation, and a hidden talent, drawing Ben into memories of his terrible secret.

Scene: At an all black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones (Beyoncé Knowles) is desired by many of the men, but not by the one she wants. Joe, is engaged to sweet Cindy Lou. Carmen goes to have her tarot cards read. The Death card features prominently.

Scene: Summoned back through time by a coven of witches to the year 1670, the three sisters learn their task is to help save an unborn child, their ancestor, who is destined to become a powerful witch. Ruth, a practitioner of dark magic, is holding the child's mother captive in hopes of raising the child herself. At one point, Ruth lays out tarot cards and discovers that the sisters have come from the future to rescue mother and child.

Scene: Early in the show Phoebe gives Paige a deck of tarot cards as a bridemaid's gift before she marries Cole. Paige cuts the deck three times, asking the cards what the future holds for the Cole and Phoebe. The first card she turns is The Lovers. The second card is 3 of Swords, labelled "Despair." The third card is Death. Later in the episode she does another reading, asking the same question. She cuts the deck three times and gets the same cards.

Scene: It's discovered that Sara's mother, a doctor who has been chosen for a NASA mission, has a medical problem that could prevent her from going to space. Sara has borrowed a deck of tarot cards from her friend's mother. Throughout the show we hear her talking in voice-over about the meanings of various cards she has drawn. Featured cards include the 2 of Cups, the Star (reversed), the High Priestess, and Death. The focus of the plot is on the Moon card as Sara explores how afraid she is that her mother won't be safe if she goes to space.

Scene: Cold Comfort farm is a scary, dark place that a socialite enters because she wants to write. Those that live at the farm are bound by a sort of force. It seems they fear making changes and everything must remain the same. Ada Doom, the matriarch of the farm, stays locked in her room and speaks of long ago seeing "something nasty in the woodshed." The socialite introduces all sorts of "foreign" things to the farm like a dish scrubber, tea time, and magazines; and she gets involved in a love match. Before a sunny happy wedding, Judith is shown looking at a spread and picks up the Sun card.

Scene: The title character, Jordan Cavanaugh, appears just as Nigel finishes his reading. One of the cards that he drew was the Knight of Swords (reversed). The final card chosen was the Hanged Man. The reading was to determine who would be laid off at the office due to cutbacks.

Scene: During the "Vicki goes back in time" sequence of episodes, the cards were brought out at various times usually to foretell Vicki's awful fate. The Countess also read for various other characters (Barnabas, Elizabeth, etc.) to tell them about the horrifying things that would happen to them. Often, the Countess would be at least partly involved to ensure her doom-filled prophecies came true.

Scene: A psychic explains Dawson's relationship problem with Joey while contemplating the Lovers card.

Scene: The American government, via a secret branch of the CIA, is using several psychics to uncover information on terrorism. Johnny Smith (played by Anthony Michael Hall) works with three other remote viewers in a secret facility to discover the whereabouts of an unnamed war criminal in hiding (ostensibly, Osama bin Laden). One of the seers, a woman named Sylvia, draws a single card from a tarot deck for Johnny – The Star. She tells him to enjoy his 15 minutes of fame.

Scene: Greg needs a new secretary and Dharma volunteers to interview candidates for him. After numerous interviews, Dharma finds the perfect secretary – one that meditates, reads tarot cards, and consults other divination tools. However, before making her final choice, Dharma slips into a daydream where she fantasizes the seduction of her husband by the gorgeous new secretary. In the end, the green-eyed monster rules and a considerably less attractive secretary gets the job.

Scene: Krystle believes Blake slept with Alexis in Italy. While in Rome Italy, Alexis gets a tarot reading.

Scene: Georgia walks into the ER and sits down on one of the beds without signing in. Dr. Greene approaches and Georgia claims she's dying. Dr. Greene asks her who her doctor is and Georgia says she doesn't have one and never has. He asks how she knows that she is going to die and she pulls out a tarot deck and says 'it's in the cards' and she is sure she will be dead by sundown. However, at the end of the show she is shown walking out of the hospital.

Scene: Felicity discovers that her roommate, Meghan, is practicing spell casting and using her as the target. Though Felicity is skeptical at first, she soon realizes that some of the spells (one is a spell to make her clumsy) actually seem to work. At one point, while Meghan is laying out tarot cards, an exasperated Felicity tells Meghan she doesn't want any more spells cast upon her. Besides this, tarot cards are shown on screen (one at a time) at key transition point of the show. Some of the cards shown include the Tower, the Empress, Strength, the High Priestess, the Queen of Swords, and the Lovers.

Scene: The story was about Sean Blumberg, played by Greg Grunberg, having testicular cancer. In this episode, Sean knows there is something wrong as he has an inflamed testicle, but he does not yet know it's cancer. He is reluctant to tell his girlfriend, Meghan, that there is something wrong. All she knows is that he is avoiding having sex. While they are sitting at a table, Meghan starts reading tarot cards. When she pulls the Emperor in reverse, she begins to figure out that something is wrong with Sean.

Scene: In the opening scene the "Friends" are gathered at the coffee house. As the conversation is happening, Phoebe is doing a layout.

Scene: Sonny, a mob boss, gets stabbed and Angel finds him. She takes him back to her cottage in the woods to nurse him back to health. Weeks later they decide to get to know each other better by playing "20 questions" (low card has to answer). She asks if he will go back to his wife, who has betrayed him, and when he doesn't answer she does a 4-card spread and tells him he isn't finished with his wife.

Scene: Sonny left the cottage to have a show down with a rival mob boss and Angel was worried. She did a 4-card spread and the Death card was pulled. Although there was gun fire and a bomb went off, neither mob boss dies.

Scene: Cheryl Ladd plays Grace Kelly, the Oscar winning actress who gave up movie stardom to become a real-life princess and wife of Prince Rainier of Monaco in this dramatization of the actress's life story. Tarot cards focused upon were the 3 of Swords and the 7 of Pentacles.

Scene: Tara Grinstead, a local high school teacher and former beauty queen, disappears one evening. All her clothes and belongings are still in her home. Her car is there too. Suspiciously, her purse and cosmetic kit, which she never left home without, were is the house still. The team tries to determine if she is alive or dead. They help reopen this cold case by providing new clues for the police to follow.

Scene: Floss is a gypsy fortune-teller who lives in a trailer park. She reads the cards everyday and appears in 127 episodes of Home and Away.

Scene: Linda, the teenage daughter Barbara Barrows, played by Sissy Spacek, has a friend over to her house. They are reading the Tarot using a Celtic Cross spread. Across the hall, Linda's parents argue about an unexpected and unwanted pregnancy. They already have four children, the eldest ready to go off to college.

Scene: Many time throughout this (7?) part BBC miniseries, Childermass consults his tarot cards. They are a handmade version of a Marseilles Tarot.

Scene:Bobby was at the flea market with Hank looking for a new hobby. He then made friends with other kids who practice "black magic."

Scene:While Unknown is talking with his wife Unknown she draws and tuns a card her husband says "Queen of spades on king of hearts" and she replies "Certainly not I never play the Queen of spades, It signifies death" she then shuffles the cards and tosses them back on the table and the Queen of spades is the only card showing.

Scene:Jean Brooks, played by Madchen Amick, goes to a tarot reader for a reading paid for my Jean's mother. Her cards are read at both the beginning and end of movie, with dramatically opposite outcomes. She falls in love by the end of the movie, but it starts out with her still mourning her husband that died 5 years before so the first reading has the Death card, Hanged Man, and Hermit in it. While the reading at the end has the Lover's Card, etc.

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Scene: Lexie thinks Glenbogle is haunted and asks Auntie Liz for advice in the form of a tarot reading. The spread shows the Fool, the Wheel of Fortune, the Emperor, and the Death card. Lexie thinks the Death card means Archie is going to die, so she rushes home and is just in time to save him from electrocuting himself while fixing the wires.

Scene:The psychic gives a tarot reading for Sharona (Bity Schram, Monk's assistant). Cards shown were Judgement, Tower, Death, Chariot and King of Pentacles.

Scene:A group of highly influential men, all belonging to an exclusive men's club, gather around a table to make a deadly decision.

Scene:Rayanne, played by A J Langer, and Angela are at Rayanne's planning a party. Amber, Rayanne's mom, does a reading for Angela.

Scene:Howard steps into the world of witches and mystics when he sets out to prove a woman didn't commit suicide and finds himself entangled with a mysterious sect ruled by the allegedly supernatural power of the Tarot.

Scene:Nightman walks into a cyber cafe and sees two teens handling a tarot deck. One teen turns a card over and foretells no future for Nightman. The two teens then digitize into a nearby computer monitor. All the surrounding monitors flash the logo of one of the series' villains, Kieran Keyes.

Scene:Chris owns the Thoth Tarot deck. Also, Shelly's mom mentioned it.

Scene:On this Halloween show, Will and his girl friend Jessica Buchanon are getting ready to go to a Halloween party. He has a tarot deck in his pocket, then in his hand. He shows a few cards and the plaid backs of the RW are clearly visible.

Scene:Satori was a psychic who used her talent to earn money by fortune telling. Her deck was seen in many episodes, but one in particular had her trying to help a "fake" who suddenly started getting real information. Satori found out that the fake was also channeling her father's spirit, which was what inspired her to try and help him.

Scene:Matt Praeger and Lindsay Donner, two of the series' cast, have been contacted by Praeger's daughter. She contacts them regarding the mysterious abduction of one of her girlfriends at Stanton University where they are attending as freshmen. The friend is found in a wooded area near the campus and claims she was abducted and things were done to her, including the obvious branding of the back of her neck with an occult symbol. In the process of searching for clues to the incident, Praeger and Lindsay find a hidden altar where the cards are seen briefly. Based on what they find, they and others of the PSI team realize black magic is being practiced on the campus and the girl has been marked for a purpose. Lindsay is familiar with Wicca due to a Wiccan grandmother so it is she who determines the approaching full moon will be the time for a demon summoning ritual.

Scene:Tessa, played by Tessie Santiago, comes home to find her father was murdered by Colonel Montega. With that, her life takes a new direction. She is aided by her servant, Marta, who provides wisdom and prophecies (with the aid of the tarot) to guide Tessa in her fight against 19th century evildoers in Mexico. Tessa takes the personae of the Queen of Swords and becomes a female version of Zorro.

Scene:When the Queen of Swords, Tessa, finds an old lover Antonio is in town Marta is not pleased. Marta consults the Tarot for advise and turns over the Death card to represent Tessa's ex-lover. She sees trouble.

Scene:A beautiful tarot reader gives Sam Oliver, played by Bret Harrison, a reading and mid-way through the reading the Devil card turns up. Then several more Devil cards are turned over. Finally, the Hanged Man card appears and Sam is suddenly suspended in the air by an invisible rope. His friend, Bert "Sock" Wysocki played by Tyler Labine, rescues him from the hanging while the tarot reader, a demon, makes a quick exit.

Scene:Syndey's friend is murdered in Bucharest and she is sent an old set of tarot cards. The tarot cards are the key to a puzzle to find the crown of the Roma. Claudia is brought along because she knows the tarot. Finding the missing card will lead to the crown.

Scene:Maria is frustrated with where she and Michael are going in their relationship so she drags him to a tarot reader to get a definite answer out of him or the reader one way or another before Michael splits town.

Scene: Miranda does a four card reading that includes the 5 of Cups, 2 of Swords, Justice, and one other card. While she's reading the cards for her friend, Will, her flat mate comes over and starts teasing them for believing in "all that stuff."

Scene: The reader pulls three cards for Kelly: the 8 of Cups, the Lovers, and the Tower. The reader describes the Lovers card to Kelly, telling her that the lovers are standing on either side of the Jewish Tree of Life (this is important because Nathan is Jewish and Kelly is not, but she was thinking of converting so any children they had would be Jewish). Kelly asks if they will stay together, and the reader answers that it doesn't look good, but Kelly has choices to make. At the end of the episode Nathan tells Kelly that they should stop seeing each other, because it is easier to break up than to work things out. Kelly replies that she 'doesn't want easy,' but Nathan seems to have made up his mind.

Scene:Charlotte is obsessed with finding "Mr. Right". She is staring to think it will never happen so she decided to go to a psychic she heard. The psychic had accurately predicted the sorority sister's marriage. The reader has Charlotte pull 3 cards and then asks her what her question is. Charlotte says that she wantLabel to know when she will get married. The reader reveals the cards as the Ace of Wands, 9 of Cups, and the Hang Man. She says that while she sees great prosperity for Charlotte, marriage is just not in the cards for her.

Scene:A gypsy put a curse on Homer after he demolished her shop. She didn't use a real deck, but the cards shown were "The Flaming Jerk" and "The Ruined Gypsy".

Scene:A tarot reader gives Lisa Simpson a 3 card reading.

Scene: A blind tarot reader turns over cards for the sliders when they arrive in a new world. Except for Wade, everyone else in the group dismisses her – much to their chagrin!

Scene:Carmen often consulted the tarot cards.

Scene:The Gypsy Queen decides to read everyone's fortunes, with Tony being first. As Virginia and Wolf look on, the gypsy uses a large-carded deck and pulls out "The Buffoon" and "The Village Idiot," among a few other cards, calmly telling Tony she sees great fortune that passes him right by.

Scene:George W. and Laura call the psychic hotline and the Death card is pulled. George worries that someone will try to assassinate him so he bans all guns. Another card pulled was referred to as a "gay" card.

Scene:Hitomi was a high school student from Earth teleported to an alien world called Gaea. On Gaea, she met friends and helped them in their rebellion against the Zaibach Empire. Hitomi used the cards frequently to foresee the outcome of characters' courses of action, as well as to find people.

Scene:A mysterious tarot card reading little girl is pulling cards. If you look close Captain Jack's face is on one of the cards.

Scene:Delia, a psychic, is handling the cards just before she stops a young mother (Pattie Johnson)--played by Sharon Lawrence-- to tell her that her son is in danger and should be kept away from water. Delia does not actually do a tarot reading, but the cards are in the scene. Delia makes the prediction using intuition. Naturally, the foretold dangerous event comes about and is then followed with a series of other bizarre ghost-activated eventLabel, which the psychic helps the family survive.

Scene:Pamela Anderson's character consults a psychic. The psychic is operating in public out of an open tent or canopy. As the characters in the show consult her, the psychic flipping cards from the Arcus Arcanum deck. She doesn't READ the cards; she actually channels information for the character in this instance.

Scene:A psychic vanishes and the team suspects a man to whom she gave a "bad" reading.

Scene:Xena and Gabrielle had a big fight and they end up in a fantasy world "Illusia" with dreamlike tarot imagery. The wheel of fortune is their gateway. The costumed guest actors were dressed as different cards. Callisto was the Fool. Ares was the King of Swords. It was an entertaining episode and for tarot readers, especially, the card-based imagery made much sense. In the end, Xena & Gabrielle realize that fighting was wrong and they went back to being friends.

Scene:Fortune-tellers and tarot card readers are being brutally murdered, and the only person who knows every detail of the killings is a nondescript insurance salesman named Clyde Bruckman. Though Scully thinks Bruckman may be involved with the killings, Mulder believes Bruckman's knowledge of the crimes comes from his own clairvoyance. But Bruckman's gift is limited - he can only see how people are going to die - and the next death he predicts is Agent Mulder's.

Scene:Mulder re-enters his office after a long absence as the X-files had been shut-down. After removing a plastic sheet from his desk, he goes to his cork board to change his calendar from May to November. Behind the calendar the back side of a Thoth Tarot deck card is tacked to the board. He does not handle the card. Mulder just seems to have it there as one of many examples of his eclectic and esoteric X-Filean paraphernalia.

Scene:Mulder and Scully walk into an occult/magick shop to gain some information for a murder investigation. When the proprietor goes behind the counter to retrieve an item there are four cards laid out on a table. It's not clear as to what the cards are exactly, but they are from the Rider-Waite Tarot deck.

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