The Byronic Tarot.There’s already a William Blake Tarot, which makes perfect sense since Blake

The Byronic Tarot.There’s already a William Blake Tarot, which makes perfect sense since Blake was the closest the Romantic poets would ever get to having a shaman in their midst. But “Gorgeous” George Gordon Byron, besides being an amazingly funny story teller, was able to write about the sublime and joie de vivre in ways that I haven’t seen rivaled except, perhaps, in the odes of Neruda. He also used heavy doses of the occult in his writing, and while some critics, uncomfortable with such themes, dismiss it as, “Orientalism,” (a legitimate criticism of much of the British colonial mindset) I think it is a false equivalency here, since Byron made magic and occult sciences integral parts of many of the plots he wrote about; Manfred uses arcane knowledge to summon Spirits to him, for example. Plus, even two hundred years later, the mythic Byronic anti-hero (moody and brooding, a rebel often haunted by a dark secret from her or his own past) is still alive and well in our modern age. -- source link

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