distorted game. Unquestionably!
You can argue all you want about its epidemic popularity, the mountains of volumes of literature written on it, the testimonials to its effectiveness; however once compared to say Crystalomancy, the Runes, or the I-Ching, the Tarot’s origins, genealogy and pedigree is in a state of ruddy embarrassment.
The I-Ching is not a mere child of just 230, it is a grand old mystic of some 6,000 years, probably the first transcribed document in history, created wholly and solely for the purpose of functioning as an ORACLE. It is replete with thousands, not merely a couple of hundred years of vibrational human consciousness. It is truly an institutionalized timeless artifact.
But wait, this article is about the wonder of Tarot.
So . . .
The answer is in what is really real.
There is another explanation however that I ascribe to. It refers to the principle that we are all the masters of our own fate. We create our lives for ourselves according to what we predominantly desire or believe. The world revolves around each of us. (to each of us). We are thus egocentric.
So that when a possible circumstance, depicted by the cards, is suggested by the card reader, our very powerful association ‘reflex’ kicks in full force, scans our life and makes every attempt to coordinate the broad-brush card situation with our ‘real-life’ situation. Therefore we discover what appears to be a track of occurrences that seem to match. We, together with certain authority we’ve given over to the reader, then trust the reading depicts an accurate portrayal of our lifestyle.
The card reader will bring down his/her final judgment in our now current atmosphere of