Tarot is creative.
It’s a whole language, with 78 words and a unique grammar, that lets us recontextualize the world and how we move through it by giving us new ways to play with the themes, ideas, and stories in our lives.
It’s sometimes funny, sometimes, hard, but almost always makes us say, “huh, I knew about all of these pieces, but never thought about doing *this* thing *here*”
It’s at its best when it shakes us out of the things that feel stuck and pushes us towards new ways of being more fully in it, by
- helping to clarify what’s important
- presenting options for creatively moving through a transition or into a challenging space
- giving agency where there seemingly wasn’t
- and inviting us into our growing edges clearly and gently
Tarot is also subversive. And if it isn’t calling into question the existing accepted structures of capitalism, normative gender expression, or conventional hierarchies in general, then it’s not being used properly.
It opens us up to a new world of possibilities and gives us the tools to make the small changes in our selves that we need in order to do the work.
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