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by Manifestopheles (Author)
Which came first? The Tarot or the playing cards? "Innocent" card games, or spooky fortune telling? The chicken or the egg?
We're so used to thinking about Tarot and cartomancy as two different disciplines, built around two different systems, both originally intended for playing games. But what if that's wrong? Could it be that we've been splitting hairs for, what, 700 years now? Could there be a deeper mystery to the Tarot, past the miasma of interpretations of the 22 Jungian archetypes of the Major Arcana and the endless bloviating about the Qabalah?
What if I told you, that the key to truly understand the Tarot and unlock its fullest potential was in the playing cards all along-hidden in plain sight? Something so elementary that, once you see it, you can't unsee it?
What if I told you, that you could make your own, personalized Tarot deck out of playing cards, without the symbolic baggage of a mass-produced Tarot deck? One that grows with you, evolves and develops meaning as you continue to engage with it?
Join me, dear reader, as we explore this new, uncharted territory-a veritable twilight zone-within the Latent Tarot: the new gold standard for both Tarot and cartomancy.
