![]() Honestly, I’d like to be polite and say how much I respect their opinions and sympathize with their perspectives … but I don’t. I think many of the latter comments came from people who didn’t read past the word “Tarot.” Others were of the “Tarot cards are playthings of the devil and no good can come of them, and don’t bother me with the facts” variety. Some of these were made early in the series and were reasonable expressions of concern that the link to the occult was too strong to overcome. When I first published a version of this series on Patheos five years ago, there were many objections to my even writing about tarot. What it reveals is a people who let faith and wonder imbue even humble pieces of paper used to play games. When you know how people dressed, sang, danced, and, yes, played, you know that people a little bit better. I feel the pulse of medieval Catholics and their uniquely beautiful and challenging world in the cards. By looking at a small or seemingly insignificant subject in detail, it brings people back to life. This was a tiny sliver of European Catholic cultural history, and by reclaiming it we begin to feel some of the life of our ancestors in the faith. ![]() ![]() That’s been the point of this series, and I hope by now you’ve been amply convinced. Tarot cards were not created as tools of divination. ![]() The Pope design, from various editions of the Tarot de Marseille ![]()
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