Tarot by HH
Certainly you are entitled to create any definition of tarot that you so desire
HOWEVER, there are standard and customary configurations of a tarot deck, and for my purpose, and I dare say for the purposes of most tarotist, a tarot deck is composed of recognizable trumps and a Fool, suited cards composed of pips and court cards
the numbers of the cards can vary widely, e.g.the Minchate with 97 cards and the Tarocco Siciliano with 64
When one of the components is removed it is not longer a tarot deck
You may refer to it as such but you have changed both the content and the language in doing so
Of course how you use the cards is up to you, however when you remove the court cards you have removed a significant part of the tarot
Tarot is a tool, but would you remove the tines from a rack, or the scoop from a shovel? Is a shovel without the scoop still a shovel or has the tool been reduced to something less that the original? According to Crowley the court cards are "a pictorial analysis of the four letters of the Name and the four elements"
sounds like, if not the heart, the lungs of his deck
It's in the cards, all the cards!
The Book of Thoth
The Master Therior
Samuel Weiser, Inc 1971
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