Tarot Chest

Things receive power from the effort and attention we give them.

This may take the form of lavish instruments, but that’s just one way of giving the magic its due.

Some of the most powerful cards we’ve ever handled were neither gilt nor stored in a lacquered chest. They were a humble set of hand-embellished playing cards that belonged to an old West Virginia woman. She kept them wrapped in her great aunt’s wedding dress, and only removed them from their hiding place beneath a loose floorboard to do readings by moonlight.

She gave them power, or at least enhanced what they had, by treating them like revered artifacts made not of wood pulp and ink, but of wishes and wonder.

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