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Understanding Tarot’s Acolyte Cards
The acolyte cards are strong medicine. They all concern fate in some way, if only as an idea, and limit our personal power to dispense their wisdom.
Understanding Tarot’s Acolyte Cards
The acolytes are special because they clearly illustrate the role of power and control. This early sequence of acolyte cards deals with naturalized power and control.
The Right to Free Thought: Rereading Tarot's Swords
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.
7 Ways to Work with Tarot to Find (and Keep) Your Next Job
Is your job search leaving you asleep on your keyboard? Do you spend meetings sneaky scrollin the Girlboss newsletter's help wanted ads? Have you given up on finding a job that doesn't suck, or at least suck less?
Hold on there, queermo. Have you consulted your deck?
Intuitive Strategies for Surviving Capitalism: Job Seeker Edition
Using tarot for your job search starts with asking the right questions.
Try to think about what exactly isn't working. Have you been unable to find job listings that fit your skills and abilities. Are the companies you've seen listings for been places you know to have poor quality of life? Have friends and peers told you about workplace violations?
Consider starting a new card pull with one of these questions:
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 Knights: Becoming Ourselves
There's something very familiar about tarot's Knights. There's a youthful quality that most of us have passed through. They're on a mission, and seen in the midst of action.
Like all court cards, they're purposeful. We see the Knights, and all court cards, at work. They are figuring out how to do their job, but also how sincerely.
Most of all, the court cards, Knights included, blend symbolism with actual people in your life.
How to Get Started with a New Deck of Tarot Cards
So you've brought home your first deck of tarot cards. Congratulations!
Now what?
I'm sure you're fighting the urge to rip the plastic sleeve open with your teeth and start shuffling. I need you to resist that urge.
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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.