Santa Muerte
Santa Muerte folk-Catholic goddess tarot reflecting fastest-growing spiritual cult.
by Fabio Listrani · 2017
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The record
Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte - Our Lady of Holy Death is a goddess or folk-Catholic saint worshipped primarily in Mexico and among Mexican-Americans. Although she is repudiated by the official Catholic church, her cult stands as the fastest growing in the world with some reports citing upward of 20 million adherents and counting. Santa Muerte is a strong deity with powers to influence love, good health, prosperity, safe passage in the afterlife, good fortune, fate, and specific protections against assault, bullets, violent death. She also protects outcasts and those on the margins of society. In popular culture Santa Muerte appears frequently as a female skeleton in a saints robes or nuns habit, sometimes she is depicted as a skeletal version of the Virgin of Guadalupe, sometimes as a female grim reaper. She is also shown as an Aztec goddess, a sugar skull, and as (a version of) the Mexican artist Posadas popular creation - La Calavera Catrina - the skeletal lady with the fancy hat. Santa Muerte, as she is interpreted for the Santa Muerte Tarot (SMT) is the great equaliser. Not only in the obvious sense - in death everyone becomes equal - but in the sense of supporting a b
The cards
