Liz Greene and Juliet Sharman-Burke write:

'the Tarot cards had been relegated to the shadow worlds of the occultists of the 18th and 19th centuries. No longer accessible to the public and no longer relevant to any philosophical or spiritual world view acceptable in society, the cards were progressively doctored and changed in accordance with the particular group or order which had got hold of them.

Thus the Tarot cards as we now usually see them are interesting hybrids, influenced by everything from Cabalistic thought to a Arthurian Legends, from latter day magical practices to Rosicrucian symbolism. Interesting though these hybrids are they have lost their original universality.'

Archetypal patterns are existent in all people at all times. They are ancient, universal, interrelated, and ongoing.

By using the archetypal stories of Greek mythology, Liz Greene and Juliet Sharman-Burke have restored the cards to their original universality.

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