OK... I'll go through the points and try and articulate where I have misgivings.
The first is a very general point about there being a 'world day' for Tarot. I'm just not sure if this is necessary - but then again, I never follow claimed 'world days', and in Australia,
Thanksgiving Day (which most people don't even know about, it seems - which occured a couple of days ago) is likewise not well received. So perhaps we are more a nation that seems to dislike stated 'days for x', and I simply in my being somehow reflect this.
But others may certainly not feel the same on this issue... so
if we were to have a World Tarot Day, my general point in previous posts stands.
To simply call it a day to celebrate Tarot - in whatever ways individuals or groups value it, whether it be for fortune telling, for ritual work, as an amazing historical game remnant... whatever it graces users with.
If we look at each part, there are problems with stated claims (reminiscent of any such list others also want to make for either certification or codifications, really, save that these seem to be a little more generous, but no less problematic).
Let's begin with the top:
Description : "To promote the use of the Tarot tool across all human made borders, be they political boundaries, misunderstandings of the mind, or ignorance of the tool itself, for the benefit and growth of the Spiritual Self."
Assumptions and exclusions are rife... also, I would willingly support something that celebrates and rejoices, but 'promotes' has all the hallmarks or either commercial underpinnings, or of evangelism.
And what about those who simply would participate as a wonderful way to promote the game of Tarot... why, again, exclude them?
Purpose :
1) To promote Tarot's use beyond any public conception of it as 'evil' or Satanic.
To 'go beyond' something assumes that one travels there in the first place. I realise this is undoubtedly not the intent, and suspect that it means more 'to
deny Tarot's connection as evil or Satanic'.
Again, of course, some would probably willingly participate in a World Tarot Day celebration, but not want to be actively involved in such
promotion of Tarot.
2) To promote Tarot uses in honest manner with integrity.
Should not using Tarot in an honest manner and with integrity be done every day?
Marking a special day for it seems ludicrous (and 'promoting' has again its drawbacks) - though I again can read the intent: let's celebrate in positive tones Tarot!
By all means, let's do so, by celebrating, not promoting.
3) To promote the use of Tarot in responsible manner beyond both use as an unsavory monetary "fortune-telling" scheme, as well as use as a crutch by those unwilling to take responsibility for their own future and/or behavior.
Perhaps there are some that legitimately use a crutch as a temporary measure in their having entered a deep pitfall of depression or darkness or passing through an utter
dark night of the soul, and to them, I would not want to exclude the beauty and gifts Tarot may bring one during troubled times.
Conversely, some may consider the mere purchasing of a reading as 'an unsavoury monetary "fortune-telling" scheme'... would we want to exclude the usage of Tarot for divination for which there is a financial exchange?
Again, I am confident that the
intent is merely to say: 'Look, just because there are con-jobs does not mean that Tarot is bad or that those who generally use it are con-artists'.
Still, a day or rejoicing and celebration need have none of that criteria stated. If some individuals in some city or town in some part of the world determines that this would best be its focus, it may very well be so... but not as a general world-wide day of celebration.
4) To promote Tarot use as a tool for self-examination, spirituality, and other self-aide methods of guidance.
And what of those who wish to primarily use it for other purposes?
5) To have at least one day to celebrate, share, and stimulate our love of the Tarot tool with each other, and to think about what we can 'give' to instead of what we can 'take' from the Tarot Community.
With a placement of a full stop after the first instance of the word 'tarot, with the rest of the sentence dropped, this would be all that is needed!
To reiterate this last even more shortened point:
To celebrate, share, and stimulate our love of the tarot.
