Will the Buddha Shuffle the Tarot?

There has to be a time when each of us starts to contemplate our place in the grand narrative of this unceasing stretch of reality. We might then be tempted to arm ourselves with some diagnostic tool in an attempt to negotiate with whatever force or entity that suspends us in this existential gravy. Some prefer to adopt a passive approach, submitting waves of queries and petitions upwards. Others refuse to surrender agency, hence the emergence of fascinating systems of divination that whet our spiritual appetites, and an endless quest to seek real or imagined connections between diverse beliefs and traditions. Aspiring artists of the Tarot must be familiar with the Celtic Cross, but what better way to exercise the limits of our intuition than to import more culturally distant interpretative schemas into our practice? My slight familiarity with Buddhism becomes useful here, as I am attempting to construct (it is not my wish to taint the process with unnecessary 'scientific rigour', but what better word is there?) a frame for Tarot interpretation based on the Buddhist Twelvefold Chain of Dependent Origination. The inspiration came from a candid observation of the obvious potential in the chain, which ostensibly outlines the entirety of our lived experience. In an endless pursuit of spiritual enrichment, this should be a hearty breakfast minus the harmful cholesterol.