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\"\"<\/a>Lately we\u2019ve been tweaking the final drafts of the tarot manuscript (and finalizing cover designs – thanks Nazik Dakkach!), and something that\u2019s come up editorially is messaging and themes. It\u2019s obviously too late in the game to change the themes of the book, but it\u2019s given us a chance to think about what we\u2019re saying with the text overall, which is really just a collection of card descriptions, and how it overlaps with and reflects and contradicts what other writers have said about the tarot, and also what this deck has done with those overarching messages and archetypes. It\u2019s a lot to think about!
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\nOne thing in particular that has emerged is a tension between posi messaging and the necessity of structural analysis. The individualistic liberal self-improvement ideas that tarot readings sometimes veer towards are not the whole story; I think that systemic interpretation is built into the archetypal bent of the practice. This tension is especially present in the more challenging cards, like the Tower, and the fives in general, which are associated with pain, and defeat, and destruction. But still I have recently shifted some of the card descriptions so there\u2019s minimal opportunity to read them like \u201cwork hard you\u2019ll get there – nothing\u2019s in your way if you put in a little effort\u201d bullshit american dreaming and more room for \u201cthis is a hard shitty place to be in and these are the things you could do within the circumstances and this is the power you have and it\u2019s worth remembering that, but you\u2019re right the great heavy machine of capitalism racism sexism poverty is really not something you can push through all by yourself just by bootstrapping.\u201d Anyway, I hope that comes across in the book.
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\nBecause the flip side of those struggles depicted is the idea of temperance, or changes and cycles and opposites, and how without some conflict we\u2019re less likely to access the beauty or joy that emerges in its wake (in the Star card, for example).
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\nAnother instance in which we had our choices questioned was during our first long interview with Kristin Li about the origins of the project and tarot in general, which it turns out we don\u2019t know everything about. No surprise there. More on that later.
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\n(Image above: Tarot reading featuring tarot de Thea<\/em>, Mythic Tarot<\/a><\/em>, and the Winnipeg Tarot Co.<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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