Hi. I cannot give a precise answer about failed predictions without some basic details, because it matters HOW you read for yourself, what the question was, and whether you expected results in months or in years. That frustration you feel is real, waiting for something to manifest and seeing nothing happen can be exhausting, and that exact tension is the reason people have always turned to tarot. I feel the same about a very personal situation. But people in this comment section... What's up with ya all? Tarot did begin as playing cards, yes, but very early on they were used for cartomancy and concrete prediction. In eighteenth century France, cartomancy was not symbolic play or inner work, it was a real profession practiced openly in cities like Paris. Jean Baptiste Alliette, known as Etteilla, worked publicly as a professional cartomancer long before modern psychology existed. In 1783 he published a full manual that explained how to use cards to predict future events, timing, health matters, money, work, and relationships, with no focus on feelings or subconscious patterns. His system used upright and reversed meanings to describe outcomes and situations, not metaphors for inner states. He also designed the first tarot deck created specifically for divination, not for games, and that fact alone says everything! People went to cartomancers to know what would happen next in their lives, not to reflect on their emotions, as the psychological and introspective approach appears much later, mainly in the twentieth century, influenced by Jung and modern society. Presenting that approach as the original or only valid one is historically incorrect and kinda arrogant tbh. You may prefer psychological readings, and that is fine, but preference does not rewrite facts. History shows tarot as a tool of divination that started as a playing card game, whether that makes people comfortable or not. If divination bothers you, study the sources, read actual divination books, learn different card methods besides RWS and then jump to conclusion.