Tarot Musings: Wise Words
"The secret of being boring is to say everything." Voltaire The Hierophant is an interesting card. It was added to the tarot deck in the Middle Ages and was called 'The Pope'. At the time the Pope himself was not only a religious leader but a political and military one as well. For decades before the first official tarot deck, Christianity had multiple popes, each claiming authority. Duke Filippo Maria Visconti of Milan (for whom the oldest surviving tarot cards were made) wa