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Last night I was talking a friend who is an expert on tarot, and she showed me what has to be the most hilariously awful tarot deck I've ever seen.
The deck was called...wait for it...the Love Is In The Earth Crystal Tarot.
Let's just take a moment to savour that name, and all the horrendous New Agey fluffiness that it implies. The Love Is In The Earth Crystal Tarot.
But here's the most wonderfully brilliant thing about this deck. In the accompanying booklet, they dedicated it to "the Grand Master Aleister Crowley" and declared the deck to be the next step on from Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot.
Imagine, if you will, how pleased Crowley would be to know that his life's legacy would be taken on its next step by the Love Is In The Earth Crystal Tarot.
As it happens, there was another friend in the room last night who is a practicing Thelemite, and I passed the deck over to him and asked him if he thought Crowley would be impressed by it. He picked up the deck, gazed at a random card and suddenly exploded, "PRINCE OF CRYSTAL LASERS????????"
I also noticed that the Lust/Strength card had been renamed "Enthusiasm."
Oh dear me. Fluffbunny Thelemites. Whatever next?
SOURCE: https://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/love-earth-crystal/
The deck was called...wait for it...the Love Is In The Earth Crystal Tarot.
Let's just take a moment to savour that name, and all the horrendous New Agey fluffiness that it implies. The Love Is In The Earth Crystal Tarot.
But here's the most wonderfully brilliant thing about this deck. In the accompanying booklet, they dedicated it to "the Grand Master Aleister Crowley" and declared the deck to be the next step on from Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot.
Imagine, if you will, how pleased Crowley would be to know that his life's legacy would be taken on its next step by the Love Is In The Earth Crystal Tarot.
As it happens, there was another friend in the room last night who is a practicing Thelemite, and I passed the deck over to him and asked him if he thought Crowley would be impressed by it. He picked up the deck, gazed at a random card and suddenly exploded, "PRINCE OF CRYSTAL LASERS????????"
I also noticed that the Lust/Strength card had been renamed "Enthusiasm."
Oh dear me. Fluffbunny Thelemites. Whatever next?
SOURCE: https://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/love-earth-crystal/
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