Tarot Is a Lie. Here’s the Truth About Your ‘Ancient’ Cards
You think tarot is an ancient mystical tradition passed down from Egyptian seers. It’s not. It’s a 15th-century Italian parlor game that a French Freemason arbitrarily decided was magical in the 1780s. The real power of the cards isn’t in occult secrets—it’s in our desperate, beautiful human ability to project narrative onto randomness to make sense of a chaotic world.