Shapes of Our Stories & Structural Change: Shifting from a Linear Fool's Journey to a Justice-Centered Sphere in Tarot

his lecture will look at Tarot as a microcosm of our world, where we can reimaging the shape of the stories we tell about it, and effect structural change. The linear "Fool's Journey" narrative, with its emphasis on the extremities of the Major Arcana (the hero-protagonist and the end goal), lends itself to asking divination questions and casting spells based on the concepts of "progress" and "improvement." When we change the shape of our Tarot story so that it is three-dimensional and spherical, the focus shifts instead to the central core of the Major Arcana: the Wheel, Justice, and the Hanged One. With no end goal and no heroes, how does such a structural change impact our divination questions and spells? 

We've seen lots of wonderfully diverse representation in Tarot art in recent years, but we also know that in our lives, diversity in the seats of power doesn't translate…