Accurate Tarot: Reader's Background as a Factor; Occupations that Encourage Objectivity
 
Tarot itself is an unbiased observer of human affairs. It will contradict the expectations of the people who are using it. Unbiased observers of human affairs are in short supply. Remember the Scientific Method?--
Observe.
Form a theory.
Test.
Repeat until the experiment is reproducible by others.
 
Scientists know observation is in the eye of the beholder, and that is observation of physical factual events. The Scientific Method is designed to compensate for and to eliminate even unintentional bias or assumptions in the eye of the beholder. Scientists go to a lot of trouble for good reason to accomplish objectivity.
 
Now, that is just about observing 'stuff.'
 
When it comes to observing what we do with other people we have an interest in, and what they do with us, there are a lot of variables here. We could be only imagining we are observing clearly. Asking someone we know just adds their potential biases to our stew. It's hard enough just examining our own life, being honest with ourselves, because we humans are each at least two people: who we are, and who we think we are. (Psychological testing arose from the effort to be objective about humans.)
 
Another constant strong bias that complicates human affairs at every level is the urge to be right. 'Right' as in 'correct,' and 'right' as in 'righteous.' Self-justification is as high a hurdle to 'Know thyself' as it is to getting the facts straight.
 
In a mystic dream once, I duck into a brightly lit library. The title to each of its books is a person's name. Each page is one day in that person's life, hour by hour, from his own perspective. Marks on the page index this same incident to the other participants' books. I find the four other books and turn to that incident in each of them, to discover what each of the five people felt happened. The person who was an onlooker had the best accou...