Tarot & Theme Decks - When is it not Tarot?

[Saturn Celeste]

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=136753

by Bat Chicken

I posted this question on the 7 of Arrows thread itself in reference to the wide possibility of interpretations of a single card. How far to we go with intuitive interpretation before we are no longer reading Tarot? How loose is that structure? How loose can it be?

 

I wonder about decks such as Greenwood and other theme decks and the structure of Tarot. If we become too interpretive, we lose Tarot and it becomes Oracle. How flexible do we become before what we are doing is reading something else...?

 

Most of all - is the question even important?? Or is it simply what IS Tarot?