spinningspider
Have started rereading Robin Wood's own book in order to take part in the study group that Lewen began recently. I really like Robin's conversational style...you can tell she writes like she talks in person. It's straightforward and honest writing. I, personally, would LOVE to meet Robin sometime. She's living near my old homecity of Detroit. Maybe someday....
I particularly like that the entirety of Chapter two, "The True History of the Tarot," is:
"The true history of the tarot can be told in a single sentence. No one knows, and does it really make any difference?"
Devoting a whole chapter to just two sentences is PROFOUND in and of itself. Folks who are passionate about things, such as we are about the Tarot, can possibly find ourselves wallowing in details...storming in teacups, so to speak. Is this really necessary?
Does it really matter that the Tarot just might not have come from Egypt...or was possibly not developed in the 14th century, but some later century? Do such details take away the credibility or the amazing possibilities the Tarot can teach us? Do things HAVE to be ancient to be of immense worth?
I, for one, don't think so. The Tarot has already shown me and given me so very much, I wouldn't personally care if it was developed last week.
I particularly like that the entirety of Chapter two, "The True History of the Tarot," is:
"The true history of the tarot can be told in a single sentence. No one knows, and does it really make any difference?"
Devoting a whole chapter to just two sentences is PROFOUND in and of itself. Folks who are passionate about things, such as we are about the Tarot, can possibly find ourselves wallowing in details...storming in teacups, so to speak. Is this really necessary?
Does it really matter that the Tarot just might not have come from Egypt...or was possibly not developed in the 14th century, but some later century? Do such details take away the credibility or the amazing possibilities the Tarot can teach us? Do things HAVE to be ancient to be of immense worth?
I, for one, don't think so. The Tarot has already shown me and given me so very much, I wouldn't personally care if it was developed last week.