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unpopular opinion

stop making tarot cards with pictures that don’t inherently represent the original image of the specific card. Don’t draw “death” as a butterfly, or “the high priestess” as an acorn. The pictures on the cards are symbolic and the meaning of the card heavily depends on what scene is playing out through them. that’s literally what tarot is all about. The cards tell stories, and you can’t just put your favorite sea creature on them and claim it means the same thing, and personally i dont think you should even call it a “tarot” deck.

We should probably go back to Olde English too because Words Mean Certain Things and ideas don’t evolve.

The thing is, though

Those ‘faux’ meanings can relate to the cards you paired them with. One of the most common interpretations of Death is intense and irreversible change, especially in terms of self, and that can absolutely be symbolized in the caterpillar/butterfly transition. The High Priestess often symbolizes the far-reaching subconscious and spiritual nurturing, which again can be implied in an acorn knowing that with the proper care it could one day be an ancient tree with roots as big as its branches extending across the entire forest in one huge biological neural network (not unlike the spiritual)

Specific symbolism isn’t going to be the same for everyone, and that’s ok. What works for someone isn’t necessarily going to work for you. That doesn’t mean the tool itself has changed to the point of being useless

Also, butterflies are considered psychopomps in certain cultures/religions, so like…  even if someone DOES have such a traditionalist and stubborn viewpoint as believing that the pictures MUST relate to what the original cards were meant to represent, it would do people well to remember that a lot of the times associations are not always apparent. You can end up looking pretty foolish for needlessly critisizing something out of ignorance, rather than coming from an actual educated and informed opinion. Sometimes it’s better to let sleeping dogs lie.