#or like. a digital shuffler that lets me move the cards instead of just spitting out a number

[androgenicandroid]

tarot whining ⬇️

I've been looking for a better tarot guidebook for months-

And first off, I found the one I want at the public library, but *literally the same day* I went to get it, someone else had pulled it off the shelf and then they checked it out before me. And that's the only copy in the whole system, and now it's three weeks overdue

- so since I have some time to kill at another branch anyways, I decided to take a chance on a book that *said* it was basically what I wanted but didn't really seem like my thing

And well, I like the idea of the organization system. It dedicates a page and a half to each card, starting with an in-depth description, which is followed by 8(!) different positions and the potential meanings for each. Which sounds great! In theory!

The way I like to read the cards is as potential aspects of difficult-to-define situations. I'm not trying to use it to tell me the facts about my life, my future or other people, but just to build a framework to analyze things with when things seem hazy. I don't want to be told what to do, I want tools to ground myself and make whatever decision I need to.

And I know this is judgemental, but in an attempt to just whine on my 6 follower blog that everyone probably forgot existed,

I ESPECIALLY DO NOT WANT TO BE TOLD THAT THE FOOL MEANS I NEED TO "LET IT GO LIKE ELSA"

The first fucking position of the first fucking card! Which first of all, I think is a huge stretch at best, and second of all, how narrow is your desired target audience?? How many people do you think are seeking out in-depth, narrow focus XL standalone tarot guidebooks that are ALSO happy for the author to tell them first thing that they just need to listen to the most infamous song of the most infamous disney movie of the past 2 decades???

I powered through the whole intro ("Hey, magic babes~~~!") thinking that surely the actual informational part would be better, since that's the supposedly the whole point of the book but fuck's sake

I know there are enough disney adults to keep disney world running but is consumer culture really so bad that you can move god knows how many copies of a popular tarot textbook by telling people which disney character's #1 most epic moment to embody???

Man. I know that meaning can be found everywhere and people that get emotionally attached to megacorp properties aren't really inferior. And I know that the majority of people don't really see the tarot the way I do, but,

But pathological ethical awareness disclaimers over ig

I still want a new tarot guidebook, but I guess I'll just download waite's pictorial key and keep looking shit up.