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In an earlier post here I said:

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In truth. most of the Western culture is scared of the Tarot.

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And with great respect and deference to my friend Umbrae Draco, I stick to my statement.

While I will be the first to admit the overall ignorance and arogance of the American culture, how we tend to be more close minded and otherwise unable to open our minds to things that we cannot prove using a calculator or scientific formula, something we cannot wrap our minds around easily when we try to incorporate this new possibility with "how we were raised", even in France, especially in France I have found FEAR in tarot. Maybe not so much because it is considered evil, but due to the same bias and uneducated perception they have, just as Americans do. I can take you to streets in San Francisco that are exactly like La Sainte-Chapelle. In L.A. In Madison, Wisconsin. But get away from that location, out into the people and you will see that misunderstanding; that Death means someone is going to die; that The Lovers means you are going to fall hopelessly and completely in love with whomever turned the card. They do not realize that the cards are not open to interpetation, that they don't mean the same thing EVERY time you turn it. They don't see anything past what they have seen in a James Bond movie or been taught when they were younger. I am positive that not every American or British citizen feels this way. I am sure there is some people in the Western World who can think for themselves (well maybe not in the White House but in other places around the country). But the bias and fear, for lack of a better word, are universal to those that will not open up to new thinking, new ideas, new possibilities. In the United States or anywhere.

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As to candles guttering...I'd really do more research over a longer period of time, and different times of day (months and year) before I blame a particular deck.

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Blame the deck? Hell I would love to have candles flicker when I touched my cards.

That part should be embraced.