Recently I’ve found an interest in writing about Tarot. As I’ve argued here before, Tarot is closely entwined with Freemasonry through the Masons who have been involved with its development, but unquestionably Tarot is not Freemasonry. Given that, I’ve put almost all of those recent writings about Tarot elsewhere.
This post will serve as a brief directory of those writings, for anyone who is interested, but will also serve as the final severing of Tarot related topics from Emeth, which will remain focused entirely on Freemasonry.
For anyone who wants to read about Tarot, the links are below. For those who do not, I’ll be back with another topic tomorrow.
This first post is about negative stereotypes that some Tarot practitioners encourage. We would all be well served if those stereotypes were to fade into history:
This second post talks about the history of Masonic involvement with the Tarot as we know it today, with a focus on false claims about cultural appropriation made by some:
This very short post shares an interesting opinion about Tarot from Bro. Lon Milo Duquette:
This post discusses the fact that we need diverse life experiences, and knowledge of what is happening in the world around us if we hope to read the Tarot well:
This post is a visualization of The Tower:
Finally, this post is a meditation for this week, utilizing the Celtic Cross Tarot spread. There are a number of similar meditations on the site, this is the most current:
Thank you for indulging me as I have run off on this tangent! I appreciate all of your support of and interest in Emeth!
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It's interesting that people are bugged enough about Tarot to create the need for such a separation.
"All the (symbolic) tools of Masonry indiscriminantly"
BINGO! "By doing so we are exploring deeply within ourselves. We are following that ancient instruction: V.I.T.R.I.(O.L.)"