Almanac of Precariomancy
By Psyche | May 12, 2008
The Almanac of Precariomancy is a set of tarot trump cards appealing to an anti-corporate sentiment.
A few cards retain their usual title such as the Chariot and Justice, others are more creatively and thematically retitled: the Magician has been renamed the Intern, the Empress is the Operator, the Emperor is the Manager, and the Start has been renamed the Chain (pictured here).
We are precarious because our choices are limited by the blackmail of the companies, coming by the day with new and surprising shapes: the housing issue, the income lack, the job torture, the self-awareness of our body and soul, our educational system, the possibility to learn and share knowledges and technologies.
The divination interpretations are overwhelmingly negative, such as this excerpt from the Bank (the Devil):
It stands for the interested help, for the lack of scruples, for the price of everything, for that which one has to give up in order to be able to get, with no certainty of what one will be able to get at all.
Online only, from what I can see, and clearly a novelty deck, but the bitter and impoverished may get a kick out of it. (Or, perhaps, those evil bankers – for entirely different reasons.)
Via Technoccult.
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This kind of Tarot deck may have appeal for individuals not typically drawn to the esoteric art. Each image prompts the onlooker to step back and rethink his or her circumstances and choices. Each situation begins inside ourselves as beliefs about who we are and why we’re here.