{"id":9784,"date":"2018-09-10T10:03:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9784"},"modified":"2018-09-10T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T16:04:12","slug":"emily-dickson-is-the-high-priestess-of-a-new-tarot-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9784","title":{"rendered":"Emily Dickson is the High Priestess of a new Tarot Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EmilyRead this interview at Reality Sandwich <\/em>with Thea Wirsching, who together with artist Celeste Pille has created the American Renaissance Tarot deck,, based on leading writers, artists, and activists of the 19th century such as Emily Dickinson, \u00a0 “I\u2019ve seen the American Renaissance period described as the literature that appeared in the years 1830-1865,” Wirsching says, “but for this project I\u2019ve expanded the range to 1825-1875, to include early comers and late bloomers.”<\/a><\/p>\n

She continues,<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s become fashionable to criticize and even to hate America, particularly in liberal and academic circles. Many of us are walking around in a lot of shame over who we are as a nation, and feel uncomfortable taking pride in a country that was built on the exploitation of African slaves and the genocide of indigenous people. \u00a0And while I don\u2019t think we should ever forget those horrific facts in our history, we\u2019ve also thrown the baby out with the bathwater and rejected the knowledge that American culture has also been productive of incredible writers, thinkers, visionaries, and spiritual savants. I think collective shame keeps the left from embracing an educated patriotism that could help us turn the political tide; this project celebrates outspoken abolitionists such as Thoreau and Lydia Maria Child, successful black men like Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany, and philosophical innovators like Emerson. \u00a0These Americans inspire pride and reverence in our history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The project is more than half-completed, and as things are done today, it is at least partly crowd-funded. I’ll make a donation . . . but they had better have Nathaniel Hawthorne in there some place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read this interview at Reality Sandwich with Thea Wirsching, who together with artist Celeste Pille has created the American Renaissance Tarot deck,, based on leading writers, artists, and activists of the 19th century such as Emily Dickinson, \u00a0 “I\u2019ve seen the American Renaissance period described as the literature that appeared in the years 1830-1865,” Wirsching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,329,159],"class_list":["post-9784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-nathaniel-hawthorne","tag-tarot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2xO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10222,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10222","url_meta":{"origin":9784,"position":0},"title":"A North American Tarot Deck","author":"Chas S. 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