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MysticalMoose said:...I was really intrigued to find them so different to how I see cards now, which I suppose illustrates the "learning journey" that we are all on with the Tarot...
Brilliantly stated.
Put down that book. it will stunt your growth.
Seriously. Look at a book. Does it breathe? Does it change with time? Does it grow?
YOU on the other hand do all these things. So you can read a book (oh how about a Zaine book) and LEARN the FACTS that EGYPTIANS invented tarot...or read from another that Moses stole it away from the Egyptians.
Bandy about any of those FACTs you learned from precious books...
Your precious authors simply read another 'book', and that author read from another 'book' and that author read from another 'book'.
Get real. You have brains, you have intellegence - If Tarot is what we think and say it is...then you should not need training wheels. Allow Tarot to be a part of the path, allow it to pull you along, allow it to teach you which questions to ask ("Uh...what's that square and triangle on Temperence's chest mean? I wonder"), allow the deck to lead you to research the symbols that are jumping out at you.
or you could read what the Pharoh Ramses the Second said about it...