The Counterculture Tarot: a photo journey through the Sixties

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