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TL;DR Tarot Card Meanings (Yes, All 78)
The Modern Phrasal approach is a novel method of learning tarot. It queers older card meanings by applying them to a wider context of human life. Each phrase is built for modern concerns, attention spans, and situations.
Living in Our Feelings: Rereading Tarot's Cups
“Tarot's Cups ask who we want to be. They ask us "how do you want to feel?"
This is a question that requires both creativity and intuition, one of the other virtues of tarot's suit of Cups.
The Queen of Cups, the King of Cups, the Page of Cups and even the Four and Seven of Cups show the connection between creativity and intuition.”
Queering Tarot's Queens: Reclaiming Our Labor
“I suspect that many of these attempts to "modernize" tarot come out of empathy, warranted or not, for tarot's Queens.
The main assumption about gender in tarot is that it must be prescriptive rather than observational.”
Building Responsive Power: Queering Tarot's Kings
The court card's monarchs are power as it really is in our lives. The Empress and Emperor of the major arcana, by contrast, are power as it was designed to operate. They are power as we are conditioned to believe it operates.
Queering Tarot's Court Cards
Some modern decks have addressed this by creating new, genderless terms for them. Names like "The Mentor" and "The Apprentice" pervade.
While I admire the creativity of such decks, the historical and social context of gender are hard to erase. Names change, but archetypes are what define tarot and those remain.
The Minor Arcana: Radicalizing Daily Life
The way to harness the power of the Minor Arcana is to stay present with the boring parts of our existence. This is because the evaluation of daily life helps us find opportunities to live freer.
Queering Tarot, Finding Ourselves
Queering the tarot is one part believing the impossible, one part feminist storytelling. It makes space for people isolated from spirituality by Christian supremacy to reconnect.
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Through free thought, by which I mean attention to detail, inquiry, and understanding, we can see that the work of tarot’s Swords isn’t good or bad.
Through free thought, we can see the role systems play in our limited ability to see the truth and accept reality. Our unwillingness or inability to think and scheme freely limits our capacity for action.
It all but ensures that we will act without thinking, and reap the consequences about which the Swords warn.