Mittkait
- and my goodness Mittkait - autocratic much?
To say "The Devil card is in this box and absolutely cannot fit anywhere else - and you youngster - should just get over it" - is presumptuous for other users imo.
That's how it occurs to me.
I am not an advocate of Aleister Crowley - and I do believe he was not a Satanist though often depicted that way.
Neither did it come across to me, that euripides was "expecting everyone to conform" to his idea of The Devil.
And Doreen Virtue - deliberately took "the dark side" out of her decks because it made her feel uncomfortable - and she admits that.
I agree - it doesn't work. Lol.
I'm just relating the thought process of the people who created the cards. These are the same ideas that Robert Place used with his own tarot decks and he wrote two books on the subject. I took his lecture series and heard him personally speak about it in NYC.
Crowley was a satanist. Then decided he himself was a god and in the process went insane. Although I think his tarot looks beautiful. I rarely get anything useful from it. It always ends up telling me to do what I want. Which is really no help at all and in the long run leads to the same road Crowley used.