Tarot is not an orphan waiting to be claimed by whichever culture loves it most this decade.
It’s a late‑medieval European card game that, somehow, became a brutally efficient carrier for patterns that also live in West African, Islamicate, and East Asian divinatory machines—without giving us a clean historical line from any of them. If you’re still hunting for a single origin, that’s maddening. If you care what the trumps are actually … Read more
