Hello everyone—and welcome to the first in a series of five “Sunday Surveys”!
Here’s the concept:
A huge proportion of what’s publicly visible about Tarot highlights a very narrow range of uses and users. Yet I know from research and experience that there are many surprising facts about how, where, and why Tarot turns up.
Through these five surveys, I'm hoping to gather information that will illuminate the many ways people relate to Tarot--how they discovered it, how they use it, and how it fits into their lives.
Here’s the plan:
Each survey has 11 (of course) multiple choice questions. Each question has five choices, or you can choose to write in your own answer.
And here are the questions you’ll see in today’s survey:
You can answer any or all of the survey questions, and although Substack does connect your email address with your survey response, I won’t see that individual information—just aggregate results.
If you have any questions, leave a comment or get in touch. And if you find the survey interesting, please share it with others!
You asked about how I encountered Tarot. I’m 83. Must have been over fifty years ago. When I turned 30 I started experiencing seeing auras and seeing things in various dimensions. It was a lot more objectified than it is today. At some point I tried out a tarot deck and noticed verifications of readings. If I hadn’t seen that I probably would have lost interest. My experience with this indicates a meaning in randomness. The source of knowledge comes from an interaction between the channel and a repository of information. Without that dynamic no amount of scholarship in the the subject of card meanings will render anything that constitutes something of meaning. I’m rather simplistic about this but that’s been my experience. I hope this adds something to your observations and speculations. Have you come to similar conclusions? I would actually be willing to be tested on this but it would have to be outcome based to prove anything statistically.
Thanks, Peter Terry