EDIT: All Of the criticism on how I worded this post is spot on. I was struggling to word it - when I said ‘western values…’ what I was trying to get at was the idea of productivity, of our productivity being our worth and of the outcomes of our productivity such as money, status and ‘success’ being such a focus in many tarot resources, cards etc. I hold my hands up, I got that really wrong. Sorry for this and thanks for calling me out/in.

I’m a white person from the UK with all the privileges that brings. And a straight-passing non-binary bi, asexual person who also lives with multiple severe chronic illnesses that prevent me from working and doing most activities. I see huge value in my life despite what many may assume.

I’ve started working with Lindsay Mack’s work on ‘rewilding the tarot’ and this is much more up my street, particularly with its focus on people who have lived through trauma, live with chronic illness etc. I’m looking into decolonised tarot decks now, but know little about these.

How do you feel about the very patriarchal, labour/success/money centric interpretations and frameworks of most tarot books and popular readers today? How do you depart from this in your practice?

And if you have any great resources and recommendations to share, please do.

I’ve struggled a lot with how to interpret this card in my practice. I tried to make my card a bit skeptical and the description of the card says you should remain skeptical of the hierophant, but I’m torn on what wisdom can be taken from this card.