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Re: Affirmative Action

My own narrow definition of crackpot tends to be the litmus test of whether one thought the 22 trumps of the ur-tarot (c. 1440, in general agreement with Ross) were derived from the Hebrew alphabet Well, I think that might be harsh to the point of being obstructive to your research. One thing I lea...

Re: Affirmative Action

Veterans like Mary Greer also ditched any baseless myth-making long ago Where is the ditch? It should bear a proper monument. Once divination is understood to be separate from esotericism, which really did only begin with Gébelin's Egyptian theory, the cartomancers don't need to believe that ancien...

Re: Affirmative Action

Hello Ross, I thinking usually signed off with my name, Michelle. Though may have started back then with Tirjasdyn/Jasdyn. Well, I think Ross and I both know this person since we were both canceled by her (or them) long ago. In fact, if this Jasdyn is THE Jasdyn I elevated to fame or infamy in my C...

Re: Affirmative Action

They are certainly welcome. Not a criticism. Just an observation. What the host or welcomer counts as welcome may differ from what the prospective or desired guest may count as that. And when the absent constitute a large class of human beings, like women, that may signify something the hosts have ...

Re: Affirmative Action

I'm not sure what you mean about the soccer comparison. You mean "the women" are missing here? In this forum? They certainly are not missing elsewhere. And cartofeminist books and ideas still shape a lot of what people do in Tarot. And I would say the religion of grievance shapes a lot of ...

Affirmative Action

So, it's Friday. A good day to laugh in a bad world to be (in many places). I made reference to Cynthia Giles' account of Jess Karlin a few weeks ago. Her version of history is, let us say, a little biased. And incomplete certainly. My point of discussing this in this essay, "Bullies" , is...

Re: Nightmare Alley

So, "created by the literati" does not necessarily contradict Tarot fitting in with "the very worst (or most honest?) human conduct". I don't think I linked this here but one of the articles I did concerned what awful people we celebrate by showing more than a passing interest in...

Nightmare Alley

The greatest book ever written about Tarot. One of the key features of the past 40 years or so of Tarot has been the movement, on the part of the clique or class of users who sought to take it over as a trade or profession, to clean up Tarot's reputation. The general idea, as one still sees expresse...

Pathology of the Poet

A lot of people read A. E. Waite's famous yet hardly discussed or understood paragraph, containing the phrase "pathology of the poet", in "Pictorial Key" and just put it aside along with most of the stuff they don't have time to decipher. After all, the only thing most people car...

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