Stochastic Tarot

Secular Tarot thoughts and the opposite of thoughts. Sometimes also jokes.

[datasoong47]

[stochastic-tarotism]

Team Mongolia, official first runners up but spiritually my champions of "Physical Asia", have stolen my heart and are the character archetypes of my ideal DND adventuring party.

[stochastic-tarotism]

I think everyone deserves at least one friend who openly finds you at least a little hot to go shopping with. Like, I'd pay a service to match me with a shopping friend who finds me hot to tell me what works and what doesn't, and who flirts with me whilst having fashion opinions.

[okayneat]

(frowning at giant halloween skeleton in neighbor's yard) we should be celebrating His birth

[inyourmindfuzzz]

a collection

[stochastic-tarotism]

Mini base by dragonfirgedesign and painted by orc.butt on insta.

[cryptotheism]

Is it disrespectful to get a tarot deck for reasons that aren't occult? If I buy a deck just because it looks pretty, for instance?

Yeah they are just cards lol do what ever u want with them

[prokopetz]

To expand on the "just cards" bit, the preponderance of evidence is that tarot cards were playing cards before they were an instrument of divination, and in many cultures they're still used more for games than for cartomancy. That's true of pretty much all extant cartomantic traditions: the games came first, and the cards were only later – sometimes much later – adapted for divinatory purposes. You could do readings with baseball cards or your favourite Pokémon deck, and this would be perfectly in line with the history of the practice.

[cryptotheism]

The trick with a rider-waite-smith deck, is that the art is optimized for divination. Everything from the poses to the colors has been woven with late 19th century esoteric symbology. Once you learn that symbology, you can read them easy as reading this text.

The fun bit, is that you can retroactively apply that logic to stuff. Once you understand what things like the color yellow means to the Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn, you can apply that logic to images of Pikachu, Squirtle, Mike Trout, Charizard, etc.

[tellurfolksisayshi]

Three cards you must choose! Ah the tower, change is in your future. The hermit, you will become closer to yourself. Oho, what’s this? Mike Trout 2022 Topps Chrome #200 Pink Refractor… woe, baseball bat be upon you *thwack*

[maniculum]

I’ve never played it, but as I understand it the game of Tarot is a trick-taking card game, not hugely dissimilar to Spades.

The suits you see in a Tarot deck designed for doing readings are only slightly different from the standard set of suits that were (and still are I think) traditionally used in southern Europe — the occultists who first started the whole “tarot = magic” thing swapped Batons to Wands and Coins to Pentacles for the vibe. Otherwise those are just normal cards with fancy art.

The cards that Tarot-readers call “major arcana” — the Tower, the Hermit, the Devil, etc. — are special cards added to act as trumps. That’s what really distinguishes Tarot as a game: instead of designating pre-existing cards as having certain properties (e.g. “spades are trumps” or “jacks are wild”), it bolted this whole new set of cards onto the base deck to do that job. (And if you’re making up new cards, you want to put cool shit on them, which is why they’re things like Death.) You may note if you look at your Tarot decks that the major arcana are numbered — that’s so people playing Tarot can remember what beats what.

Interestingly — again as I understand from my reading, if anyone out there plays Tarot please correct me — the Fool is a wild card not dissimilar to the common use of the Joker, but they’re completely unrelated. Case of convergent evolution. The Joker was invented in 19th-century America for the game Euchre (aka “Jucker” in its previous German incarnation), which is where it gets its name, and the iconography follows from there.

[stochastic-tarotism]

🎃 Horror movie tarot week 2 🎃

Dale & Tucker vs. Evil is one of my favorite horror comedies of all time. turns out, as in life, often the villain is prejudice or miscommunication. This spread is meant to help you question your own perceptions and perhaps learn something that exposes the real problem in each area of your life as defined by the characters of the movie and what believe their corresponding suit is.

[stochastic-tarotism]

🎃 Horror movie tarot week one 🎃

l was captivated by the lore introduced in Hellraiser (2022). Listening to the list of puzzle box configurations, I thought to myself, would do this tarot spread." And now we can!!

You can consider using this same spread from the broader more mysterious and dark perspective of the Cenobites for shadow work.

[stochastic-tarotism]

A new spread for when you want to examine your gender vibes.

[stochastic-tarotism]

🥂✨Sharing appreciated.✨ Open to feedback and readings. 🥂

[stochastic-tarotism]

Me: I feel like I don't have the context for a lot of modern art but I love most installation art.

Spouse: I have mixed feelings.

Me: About modern art or installation art?

Spouse: No that's my medium.. I work in mixed feelings

By Logan, Untitled Joke (2024), mixed feelings

[stochastic-tarotism]

Werk 😎

[stochastic-tarotism]

Gorgeous 💖

[stochastic-tarotism]

Kahless/Gowron forever 🧡

[comparativetarot]

The High Priestess. Art by Chain Assembly, from the Tarot by the Neon Light.

This powerful woman resides between Jachin and Boaz, symbols of the Temple of Solomon. Like the Magician, she does not gain power from experience but instead, it comes from intuition and an understanding of oneself. She is not burdened by what society demands of her, she has an internal compass to which she holds herself accountable.

[stochastic-tarotism]

Currently unemployed and finding new ways to fill my time. Doing tarot readings because I need the practice. Free daily card, as long as I'm not too busy trolling hopelessly through job boards.

[escuerzoresucitado]