Mad Men and Tarot

Dreamcurrent is a very tarot-friendly place.

In The Mountain King episode of Mad Men, when Don is offered a tarot card deck to put his palm to, he scoffs: "It's an ink blot. You see what you want to see."

I'm actually with him in a non-scoffy sense. But I'd change it a little: you see what you see and it is interesting.

As with ink blots and with dreams - what you see in the cards is guided by your own unique filters based on who you are and experiences you have. (I'm assuming here that you're actually LOOKING at the cards and not at a little white book of interpretations or keywords)

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By the way, if you are slave to the LWB (which is DIFFERENT than an LBD, which I fully endorse being slave to), there is a super exercise featured in teachings by Ruth Ann and Wald Amberstone (of The Tarot School) that is a really good and fun way to get you focused on the cards themselves: spend 5 minutes studying a card, then turn the card over so you can't see it, and try naming 3 unique features of the card, then 4 more, then 5 more, then 7 more. It's especially challenging in a group setting, when other people can use up your answers - I recommend getting their class recordings so you can play along with their group. You really start noticing flags flying left or right, headbands, belts, hoods, birds, number of towers in the background, number of masts on a ship, etc.