Tell me, does this ever happen to you: you discover a new deck that you just love…except for one card, and that one card is bad that it makes you not want to work with that deck? This card almost pushes me that far.

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The Tarot of the Dream Enchantress, like the Manga Tarot, plays with gender, but in a different way. In Dream Enchantress, which is a very feminine deck, the cards that are traditionally male wear a mask. Sometimes it seems that a female figure is wearing the mask and sometimes it is impossible to tell, as in the case of the Hierophant.

I did write the text for the booklet (although I had nothing to do with the design of this deck). For this card, I thought:

Where do your spiritual and moral truths come from? Does the place seem alien? Do you wear your beliefs like a costume, a caricature of truth? What would you find if you lifted the mask?

This card scares the bejeebees out of me. But don’t let my opinion influence you. What do you think? Does it resonate with your ideas of the Hierophant?

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Written by Barbara Moore
The tarot has been a part of Barbara Moore’s personal and professional lives for over a decade. In college, the tarot intrigued her with its marvelous blending of mythology, psychology, art, and history. Later, she served as the tarot specialist for Llewellyn Publications. Over the years, she has ...