Tarot as a symbolic refuge in the digital age. Forming interpretative communities and managing uncertainty in the context of social platforms
Tarot as a symbolic refuge in the digital age. Forming interpretative communities and managing uncertainty in the context of social platforms

Summary/Abstract: This article examines how Tarot has been transformed through digitalization, focusing on its dual reconfiguration: both as an infrastructure for learning and symbolic legitimation, and as a cultural technology for navigating everyday uncertainty. Based on semi-structured interviews with fifteen young practitioners, the study highlights how social platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube) become constitutive spaces for the formation of interpretative communities around Tarot, in which traditional authorities are replaced by emerging forms of credibility based on expressive authenticity, symbolic coherence and ethical accountability to the public. The research documents the emergence of a ‘digital spiritual habitus’ - a system of aesthetic dispositions and practices adapted to the online environment - whereby traditional symbolism is reconfigured for algorithmic transmission. The article also analyzes the functioning of Tarot as a ‘symbolic refuge’ in a society marked by uncertainty, highlighting the specific ways in which young people integrate this practice into everyday rituals of emotional self-sustainment and narrative construction of meaning. Through a close analysis of digital spiritual bricolage processes and symbolic coping strategies, the study contributes to our understanding of how spiritual practices are transformed by the digital environment, offering empirical insights into contemporary forms of meaning-making in the absence of stable institutional frameworks.

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