oooh, yay, i find this sort of open minded and open ended musing really fun and interesting! i tend to come at tarot and similar archetype driven card readings from a very little researched jungian perspective. that is, a class in college i only recall bits and pieces of, and no longer have the textbook for (i did get the red book gifted to me one giftmas, and once gloomhaven is properly put away and the table has space again, i should set it up for me to properly study a page of each day as i had meant to)...(altho i doubt the red book addresses his views on tarot...) my memory's impression of it is that he considered tarot et al to be a helpful medium through which to interact or communicate with ones unconscious or the collective unconscious. i do wonder if through that lens, things dont make more sense? tarot has been designed to really jive deeply with our archetypes, and also thus with unconciousness[s]. i would say that's much more powerful than just a random prompt, ne? at least how i view it, i think this interpretation would address all of the questions at least somehow...
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Date: 2019-03-20 07:31 pm (UTC)i tend to come at tarot and similar archetype driven card readings from a very little researched jungian perspective. that is, a class in college i only recall bits and pieces of, and no longer have the textbook for (i did get the red book gifted to me one giftmas, and once gloomhaven is properly put away and the table has space again, i should set it up for me to properly study a page of each day as i had meant to)...(altho i doubt the red book addresses his views on tarot...)
my memory's impression of it is that he considered tarot et al to be a helpful medium through which to interact or communicate with ones unconscious or the collective unconscious.
i do wonder if through that lens, things dont make more sense? tarot has been designed to really jive deeply with our archetypes, and also thus with unconciousness[s]. i would say that's much more powerful than just a random prompt, ne? at least how i view it, i think this interpretation would address all of the questions at least somehow...