How Tarot re-enchanted my life

I spent a major slab of my summer slowly and luxuriantly reading a huge, dense, and astounding book. Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism was first published in French in 1980 — anonymously in accordance with the wishes of its author — and five years later in an English translation by Robert Powell. We now know that the author was Valentin Tomberg (1900-1970), an Estonian mystic and scholar whose lifelong quest for knowledge of the divine led him first into the Anthroposophical Society founded by Rudolf Steiner, and ultimately into the Catholic Church. Written late in life, Meditations is the summation of 50 years of study and practice at the outer reaches of belief — though really it reads like the fruits of more than one lifetime. The first thing to be said to t