So I was rooting through some old stuff the other day and I found a deck of Tarot cards. Remembering how much fun they were, I immediately started researching them online
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Mary's dad gave her a William Blake Tarot card deck, which I think you've seen. Every card has got the plurality of interpretive possibilities you speak of, with one added layer: Blake's symbolism was highly elaborate, idiosyncratic, and systematic. So as you learn to see the hidden complexities in your own life by way of the interpretive possibilities in the images, you also get to map the complexities of your life onto a Blakean Romantic theology. Pretty f-ing kewl.
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