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So just like at the end of the 1800s, when the hermetic order of the Golden Dawn released their full method of reading tarot by this ancient occult method, or going back even further to the invention of the printing press, and the fact that along with greater widespread literacy, the reading of magical books and occult literature was one of the first things that happened when the printing press was made more widely available. It’s like no, it’s actually that we have technologies that are making those concepts more widely accessible to more people.
So there’s a lot of people passing a lot of conjecture about, well, the world is so zany right now, and that’s why everyone loves crystals and tarot cards. There is a long and storied history of occulture peeking in the mainstream around the development-historically, this is going back hundreds of years-of new accessible technologies. So the cool thing is I have a very particular set of feelings about this. Why do you think that there was such a presence of that community on Kickstarter? Like why do you think it became such a home to the occulture and magical community? But in terms of when we knew or how we knew, I think once we started looking into it, we figured out pretty quickly that this community was super strong, super present on Kickstarter, and really, really deserved our attention.
So we decided this year that we were going to formalize the endeavor by starting to build this section out, so it would actually be available and accessible to people. And having been a witch for much of my own life and gotten tarot decks from Kickstarter and friends with occult stores talking about it, etc, etc., I quickly asked after I started working there, who takes care of tarot? What section does that fall under? Who does it? So in my investigating of that, which very quickly got picked up and supported by other people at Kickstarter, we realized Kickstarter effectively already had this tarot and magic and divination, if not a section, a community, and a super robust one that spanned from the earliest days of Kickstarter’s existence all the way up to now. So a little over three and a half years ago, I came to Kickstarter from my previous post as the host of MTV News, to run our music department. That’s a great question, because that’s actually where everything started for me. How did you come to the decision that kickstarter needed a special section specifically for occulture? We had the chance to chat with Meredith Graves, the Kickstarter director who is overseeing the new Magic & Divination section, about what they hope the new homepage will mean to the magical community. (The Literary Tarot is just one recent exciting project that you may have already read about at WWAC!) And with the addition of this intentional space, who knows what other kinds of magical ideas will grow?
And it makes sense! Kickstarter has become a real home for the magical community, particularly with the explosion of artist-made tarot decks that have been successfully funded there. In an exciting move for witches, oracles and occultists alike, Kickstarter recently announced and launched their newest section of the site: the Magic & Divination homepage, which compiles all the magic-themed projects-both real and fictional-in one enchanted place.
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