"“You must not talk about the future,” Jodorowsky tells us in his series, “the future is a con. The tarot is a language that talks about the present.”"
"The Tarot has long been a tool of char­la­tans. But it has also long been embraced by bril­liant, uncon­ven­tion­al thinkers, many of whom them­selves have a touch of the char­la­tan about them (and who would just as like­ly admit it with a smile). William But­ler Yeats was a fan, as is vision­ary Chilean film­mak­er, artist, writer, and psy­cho­naut Ale­jan­dro Jodor­owsky, who has record­ed his own Youtube series explain­ing his take on this clas­sic mode of div­ina­tion."
"Not only do the two seem like kin­dred spir­its, but Dalí devot­ed some part of his life to the Tarot, design­ing his own deck in the 70s. Ini­tial­ly, the project arrived as a com­mis­sion from pro­duc­er Albert Broc­coli for the James Bond film Live and Let Die."
"“Like­ly inspired by his wife Gala, who nur­tured his inter­est in mys­ti­cism,” writes Chicago's Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art, "Dalí eager­ly got to work, and con­tin­ued the project of his own accord when the con­trac­tu­al deal fell through.""
Tarot has been used for divination and also embraced by unconventional thinkers and artists. Its archetypal symbolism appeals to creative people who use it for purposes other than predicting outcomes. Alejandro Jodorowsky frames tarot as a language about the present and warns against talking about the future. Salvador Dalí is presented as a kindred spirit who devoted part of his life to tarot, including designing his own deck in the 1970s. Dalí’s tarot project is linked to a commission connected to the James Bond film Live and Let Die, and it continued even after the contractual arrangement ended. The period also saw a resurgence of tarot in popular culture.
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