How do I handle people who mock my inter

Mockery of tarot is almost never really about the cards — it's about who can see you caring about something, and about control of the conversation. So handle the person, not the deck.

A few things that hold up in practice:

Decide who gets an audience. People who mock you repeatedly have told you what they think is fair game. You don't owe them a defense. Most of it dies when the interest stops being a public event.

Have one short line ready, then stop. Explanations invite follow-up questions; one flat sentence doesn't. "It's a hobby, like any other" or "Yeah, I know what you think" — said once, evenly, without a follow-up, usually ends it. Getting animated is what keeps it going.

Keep the parts you love private from the people who mock. You can absolutely still read cards; you just don't have to make it content for people who've shown you they enjoy the reaction.

Find one person who doesn't mind. Almost everyone who mocks is a small number of people. Anyone who's ever looked at the deck with curiosity instead of a smirk changes how much their opinion costs you.

If it escalates to real disrespect or a workplace/social consequence, that stops being a tarot question — that's a boundaries question, and worth a different conversation.

Want a single card on it — just for how to hold your ground — or would you rather keep it practical?