There are a few reasons why I titled this book “Sinners Tarot”. One of them is that there are too many variant Tarot decks out there with a similar name to “Satanic Tarot” or “Demons Deck”. I personally feel that honesty is the best policy when considering spiritualism.
Those who do believe, they have experience with charlatans and liars, and so trying to cover up rational choices with mysticism is a mistake. At least it is in my opinion.
Another reason I titled this book “Sinners Tarot” is because that’s exactly what a practitioner of this craft is. Now, I’m not calling anyone who practices in pagan rituals evil in a natural sense, but to Christians they are sinners.
They renounce the authority of Yahweh, they consort with the spirits of the wild, and they do not abide by the teachings of Jesus Christ (at least not with that divinity in mind). To oppose the laws of Christianity is to sin. So, by definition, they are sinners.
Yes, there are sects of Christianity which accept the tools of divination. There are those who see the fairies of the forests as divine messengers rather than minions of Satan.
My intention is not to damn them but rather to point out that they are not traditional canon. There will always be variations of the majority faith.
Yet, the majority Christian faith will see reaching out directly to demons as an act of evil. It will be seen as a sin. So, we are sinners.
Especially since in this book the reader is directly reaching out the minions of hell. Not only the minions, but sometimes to hell itself.
And especially its master, Lucifer. To be clear, I am not advocating people to act against the law. I am not suggesting my readers to steal, destroy, and murder at will.
I personally believe in the concept of separation from church and state, and so people can believe whatever they want and still be productive citizens.
A person does not have to abide by the tenants of Christianity in order to be a good person. In fact, they can do the opposite. Reading this book and practicing its form of divination is that opposite.
Tarot typically is a collection of seventy-eight cards and each represent a concept.
The first twenty-two are trump cards called Major Arcana, and the remainders are suit cards called Minor Arcana. In the Minor Arcana, it numbers one through ten with a Paige, Knight, Queen, and King for each of the four suits.
With these cards, a diviner can randomly select them from a stack, arrange them in a particular pattern, and determine an answer or suggestion for the person being read.
There are variations to this formula. The area with the most variation is the pattern which a diviner lays down the cards. I will provide a summary of such patterns later in this book.
Another large area of variation are the cards themselves. Seventy-eight is the standard amount of cards in a deck, which coincides with the amount in Major and Minor Arcana sections.
If this number is changed, it usually means that the separation between Major and Minor Arcana no longer applies.
This is called an Oracle Deck. Oracle Decks are to be read with their own specialized reading patterns.
