| Tarot is a philosophy -- not a card game.
Here is why fiction writers need to know some philosophy. It doesn't matter which philosophy you study, as long as you know one thoroughly enough to customize it to your own fictional purposes. Tarot is a theory about the structure of the universe, and the place of mortal creatures in that universe. It describes how the will and spirit of a living creature (such as a person) interacts with the apparently inanimate material substrata we study in the science of physics. Tarot can be very dangerous, but not for the reasons most people think. It is therefore recommended that the beginning student of Tarot read several cautionary books on these dangers before beginning that study. I have described some of those dangers and how to deal with them
in the first volume of The
Biblical Tarot, a series of nonfiction books from Belfry
Books. The internet provides many sites about the Tarot, filled with wisdom and drivel mixed in wild abandon. Sometimes the drivel is more fertile in story ideas than the actual fact. In this department you will find references and links suggested by a wide variety of teachers, all with different approaches. One person's drivel is another person's incontrovertible fact. Within that conflict lie many stories. Go study, learn, find the story of your universe. |
