Papageno
Lyric said:For me, this deck just sings to me when I keep it to the personalities involved and the parts they play and their interactions with each other and with humanity, insofar as I've learned them at this point.
I'd go with it, that's how the deck has chosen to speak to you.
that's what's important.
IMO forget all that tree of life jazz and just let the deck sing. it's speaking to you. you're not working towards a doctorate so stop worrying and let go of all that extraneous stuff.
edited to add:
I've known people whose immigrant parents-grandparents are practitioners of Macumba and Santeria and from what I've been told these are very visceral occult arts and I have never known them to incorporate any Kabbalistic elements into their work.
I don't question Ms. Glassman's ability to make the appropriate correspondences within the Voodoo tradition and the validity of incorporating these elements as a practical application into the Voodoo Tarot, but I doubt they are necessary.
When I read your description saying the deck "sings" to you when you relate to the Loa hierarchy my immediate gut reaction was, breakthrough, she's got it right on, that's wonderful.
don't over intellectualize, that's just putting a roadblock in your way, just go with what the personalities are saying to you. anyone who can say the cards sing to her is definitely on the right track.