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Tarot Poker...? Marketable Magick

 
 
Choronzon Lad
18:23 / 04.09.02
I think someone deserves a cookie if they take a standard 52 card playing card deck, reinsert the concepts stripped from the Tarot and then, using some vaguely magickal principles, comes up with a rule book on how to play games like Poker, Blackjack, War and Spades with expanded rules to incorporate the Major Arcana and Knights which have been disguised as expansions to the standard 52 card playing card decks.

I imagine it could even be a nifty beginner's primer to Tarot and a way to get people using it that wouldn't ordinarily.
 
 
Jack Fear
19:10 / 04.09.02
You've never heard Steven Wright's joke about this?

"I was up all night playing poker with Tarot cards: I drew a full house and eight peoiple died."

The cards were originally a game called tarocchi, if I remember correctly. Do a search on that and see if you trn up the rules: I can't be arsed.
 
 
Trijhaos
19:30 / 04.09.02
Check out this page. It has links to a few variations on games using tarot decks.

Michael Dummet also has a book out called The Game of Tarot , but I'm not sure if it tells you how to play the games.
 
 
ciarconn
21:34 / 04.09.02
Ever played magic (the trading card game)?
Probably someone thought this before
 
 
ghadis
21:59 / 04.09.02
I think 'Twister' with plastic multi-colour Goetian seals is more my bag...left hand on Asathoths' sigilised tit please...
 
 
Wrecks City-Zen
18:37 / 05.09.02
As stated befor, the 52 cards we use as a standard deck were directly RIPPED OFF from the Tarot. For real fun, POKER DIVINATION...Get dealt your hand, keep em in order and assign the positions (Base, Past, Prestent, Near Future, and Outcome) INSTANT DIVINATION!
 
 
illmatic
22:09 / 05.09.02
There's a bit in Kenneth Grant's Austin Spare memoir/compendium Zos Speaks where Spare describes, how to work up your own divination deck from an ordinary pack of cards. Not done it but thought I'd provide the info.
Disadvantage is the book costs £40 but it is a pretty unique publication. Loads of unpublished Spare writings, drawings and colur plates Spare/Grant's correspondence over 6 years plus an amazing evocation Spare and a forgotten London by Steffi Grant (Ken's wife)
 
 
Choronzon Lad
23:07 / 05.09.02
Hm...

Interesting but I was thinking of the reverse, somewhat.

Basically finish the job of ripping off the Tarot into marketable playing cards, doctor the rules of a few major card games to include major arcana and knights...

... And watch in glee as, before long, you have sheltered private school kids doing celtic cross readings.

Whereas Oujia (which I tend to think of as bunk anyway) has become popularized, the Tarot retains a stigma as an 'occult' tool.

So what better method marketing is there than to take the popularized rip off, turn it back into a disguised version of its original form and get people playing magickally charged variants on Poker and Blackjack...
 
 
Jack Fear
00:46 / 06.09.02
Ouija is popular because it's simple and intuitive and can usually provide results in a single evening, with no particular preparation needed. Instant oracular gratification.

Tarot is considerd more esoteric because, well, it is esoteric. There's a steep learning curve: even at its crudest level Tarot requires a great deal of memorization, while advanced practice can involve years of research and meditation on the cards, their origins, their meanings, their imagery and symbolism--and on the zillions of permutations in how the various cards reate each to the other in various spreads and arrangements.
 
  
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