Ariana Moira at Commonweal:
Therein lies tarot’s irresolvable tension: while it has become part of a spiritual practice that encourages self-actualization, tarot mimics the same individualism that produces the need for it in the first place. Without any religious or political obligations, tarot as practiced in the wealthy industrialized West transforms into a cultural product aligned with self-help guides and self-monitoring practices. In the Global South, specifically Latin America, scholar Isabel Ortiz worries that
tarot cards are shown to ultimately help characters tell stories of themselves as much stronger than they might feel in the moment, but often at the expense of being able to name or directly face the social forces to which they are vulnerable, that have so starkly exposed their fragility in the first place.
Even when sincerely practiced, tarot is awash in contradictions.
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