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  • Black Tarot: African Americ...
    Failla, Marcelitte

    Liturgy (Washington), 10/2021, Letnik: 36, Številka: 4
    Journal Article

    Failla asserts that after our meeting in an online occult Facebook group, Amanda decided to come by my house to receive a tarot reading. Immediately, upon her entrance to my living room, we began getting to know one another. I introduced her to my six-month-old puppy and offered her coffee. I unwrapped my tarot cards from the gold and brown cloth where they are kept safe and asked Amanda to shuffle them while telling me what was on her mind. We spoke like old friends, sharing the deepest parts of ourselves. Amanda's body language told me she was sad. Her shoulders hunched. This article explores African American women's shifting tarot from a European-dominated tradition into one that cultivates resilience for Black people. Through a process of creolization, or Hoodoo sensibility" as one of my respondents termed it, Black women make tarot Black by reimagining the Eurocentric deck into one that reflects brown and Black faces and connecting to ancestors long lost through the transatlantic slave trade.