Journeying the Sixties: A Counterculture Tarot
THE MAJOR ARCANA-STEPS OF THE FOOL'S JOURNEY
0-THE FOOL
Characteristics of a Counterculture protagonist
XI-JUSTICE
Misadventures in the pursuit of change "by any means necessary"
I-THE MAGICIAN
Timothy Leary and the ecstatic epiphany of LSD
XII-THE HANGED MAN
Enforced immobility and catalytic hang-ups: arrests, overdoses, and war
II-THE HIGH PRIESTESS
Midwives of change: women's bodies, women's choices
XIII-DEATH
King, Kennedy, and Vietnam: the unintended consequences of irretrievable loss
III-THE EMPRESS
Sexual roots of feminism's Second Wave
XIV-TEMPERANCE
The lasting impacts of non-violent protest
IV-THE EMPEROR
Failed presidencies and the fall of authority
XV-THE DEVIL
The end of censorship: art and literature emerge from the shadows
V-THE HIEROPHANT
Marcuse, Brown and how the personal became political
XVI-THE TOWER
1968-Worldwide revolution and the collapse of the new
VI-THE LOVERS
New ways to love: roots and branches of the sexual revolution
XVII-THE STAR
Channeling the peak experience: living naturally after the fall
VII-THE CHARIOT
The hippie juggernaut and the new vortex: sex, drugs, and rock n roll
XVIII-THE MOON
Blending the bacchanal with beatitude: celebrations of body and spirit
VIII-STRENGTH
Port Huron and the mobilization of the New Left
XIX-THE SUN
New families of the Children's Crusade
IX-THE HERMIT
Streetwise bodhisattvas herald the rise of "crazy wisdom"
XX-JUDGMENT
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times: cultural triumphs and political failures
X-THE WHEEL
A history of the Peace Symbol: visualizing one world
XXI-THE WORLD
Living for now-"We're as Gods and we might as well get good at it."


THE MINOR ARCANA-QUALITIES OF EXPERIENCE

The Suit of Wands-Thought in Action
ACE OF WANDS
The Free Speech Movement . . . the first successful student revolt
EIGHT OF WANDS
Revolution for the hell of it and when do we want it? Now!
TWO OF WANDS
Women reconsidered--is this the end of patriarchy?
NINE OF WANDS
Stop the Draft Week - moving from moral protest to a show of power
THREE OF WANDS
Taking Social Justice to the Streets
TEN OF WANDS
Counterculture burn-out and the sudden end of political revolution
FOUR OF WANDS
The SF Mime Troupe, the Diggers and art with a frame of reference
PAGE OF WANDS
From black culture to Counterculture - the roots of white insurrection
FIVE OF WANDS
The Empire Strikes Back . . . police batons vs. Third World Studies
KNIGHT OF WANDS
Black Knight, White Knight: Robert F. Williams and David Dellinger
SIX OF WANDS
On Becoming Cool
QUEEN OF WANDS
Seeking the life of the outlaw woman: Doris Lessing and Holly Golightly
SEVEN OF WANDS
Situationists, agit prop, and the Bread and Puppet Theater
KING OF WANDS
Robert F. Kennedy - what if he had lived . . . and won?
The Suit of Cups . . . Deep feelings and new attachments
ACE OF CUPS
How Dr. Spock's children grew up to become living subjects of change
EIGHT OF CUPS
People's Park: monument to resistance?
TWO OF CUPS
Expanding the paradigm of binary love
NINE OF CUPS
Gatherings of the Tribes: faires, festivals and mass gratification
THREE OF CUPS
Creating intentional communities: "We were broke but we weren't poor"
TEN OF CUPS
Is this the end of marriage? Love and intimacy transformed
FOUR OF CUPS
Esalen, transpersonal psychology and "the religion of no religions"
PAGE OF CUPS
Mountain Girl, Wavy Gravy and the promise of endless adolescence
FIVE OF CUPS
Contagions of sadness: Vietnam and Kent State University
KNIGHT OF CUPS
The fragile troubadour: lighting the Counterculture's fire
SIX OF CUPS
The Flower Children's children: growing up in the Counterculture
QUEEN OF CUPS
Comfort, health and freedom . . . women rescue their bodies
SEVEN OF CUPS
Ex-cons become revolutionaries: the kidnapping of Patty Hearst
KING OF CUPS
Laughing at authority: the rise of the subversive comic
The Suit of Swords . . . Power and Consequence
ACE OF SWORDS
Restarting the Civil War . . . votes and death in Amite County
EIGHT OF SWORDS
Losing the faith . . . the backlash against feminism
TWO OF SWORDS
Young Americans for Freedom . . . the other Baby Boomers
NINE OF SWORDS
The triumph of repression: police brutality and Hoover's FBI
THREE OF SWORDS
Romancing anxiety: war, drugs and other agents of anguish
TEN OF SWORDS
Casualties of protest: a short history
FOUR OF SWORDS
Relocating the Generation Gap . . . the emergence of prefigurative cultures
PAGE OF SWORDS
Black Power . . . racial pride threatens the dominant culture
FIVE OF SWORDS
New Left illusions and the triumph of old realities
KNIGHT OF SWORDS
The preacher on the corner and the rise of the Religious Right
SIX OF SWORDS
Long hair and earrings: re-inventing masculinity
QUEEN OF SWORDS
Women, ethics and justice: Phyllis Chesler and Carol Gilligan
SEVEN OF SWORDS
Reagan's Revolution: the petite charm of an angry bourgeoisie
KING OF SWORDS
Speaking truth to power . . . the life and time of Mario Savio
Suit of Pentacles . . . What Endures, What Survives
ACE OF PENTACLES
A concise inventory of lasting Counterculture impacts
EIGHT OF PENTACLES
Being Frantz Fanon: from colonialist oppression to multiculturalism
TWO OF PENTACLES
Restoring balance: Gaia, the feminine, and putting Earth first
NINE OF PENTACLES
The fashion of the personal: shattering the paradigms of beauty
THREE OF PENTACLES
New terms of employment: vocation and the culture of refusal
TEN OF PENTACLES
Hippie entrepreneurs and the conquest of cyberspace
FOUR OF PENTACLES
Toxic counterintelligence and the US war on domestic dissent
PAGE OF PENTACLES
"Dude, where's my culture?" Lateral deviance and the acceleration of social change
FIVE OF PENTACLES
From acid dreams to the greed of speed: hip poverty's virtues and vices
KNIGHT OF PENTACLES
Movers and shakers of the Counterculture: building a city on rock n roll
SIX OF PENTACLES
Ending hunger in America and the unsung success of Johnson's "other" war
QUEEN OF PENTACLES
Free at last? Counterculture women 40 years later
SEVEN OF PENTACLES
Adrenaline, slaughter, and the forgotten lessons of Vietnam
KING OF PENTACLES
The Rolling Stones and the branding of rebellion