Hey I love your blog but tarot is a closed cultural practice belonging to the Romani people and should not be practiced by non Roma. The west likes to steal things then say they aren't closed bc everyone does it but if you can respect dream catchers and spirit animals being closed you can accept that tarot is closed too
saying tarot is a closed practice to romani people is like saying moneylending is a closed practice to Jewish people. Not only is it wrong, but it’s racist as hell.
Tarot divination was invented in 1785 by notably non-romani french hermetic occultist Jean-Baptiste Alliette. While romani peoples famously specialized in tarot divination as a way to make some cash, any stories you hear about tarot having it’s origins as an ancient egyptian form of cartomancy brought to europe by Roma travellers is entirely false orientalism, and likely made up for marketing purposes.
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I really love how people keep rolling up on this Romani-run, clearly educated, occult-centric blog to spread the White Gospel of Closed Tarot
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To be fair, I’m only ethnically romani, I’m barely connected to the culture, but I know a whole hell of a lot about the history of cartomancy.
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