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While there are professionals and a spectrum of quality, as in any field, astrology, Tarot, Hermetics and Esoterica in general remain unregulated and widely considered as alternative or metaphysical disciplines. In any unregulated environment, uncertainty becomes fertile ground for confusion and exploitation.

Without formal standards or accountability, the field attracts both the well-meaning but naïve and the articulate but disengenuous. Genuine expertise and integrity often exist side by side with opportunism and misinformation, alongside every other permutation these spectrums allow for, making Discernment essential for anyone seeking real value and substance in these domains

Our modern digital and pop-culture landscape is overcrowded by synthetic content and commodified wisdom. These attract shallow interpretations and a glut of hobbyists and enthusiasts, which distort the field.

When the field becomes saturated with superficial, distorted, or sensationalised content, the resulting confusion undermines both the credibility and perceived seriousness of the underlying tradition and naturally provides sceptics with all the ‘proof’ they need to discredit the entire project.

The abundance of low-quality, performative, or commercially motivated content makes it easy for critics to dismiss the entire domain as unserious, fraudulent, or irrelevant. Further to this, such content would not thrive unless there were a ready and willing audience marked by commensurate immaturity and lack of discernment common amongst the uninitiated. The proliferation of superficial or misleading material is both a symptom and a consequence of an environment where critical faculties and structural understanding are underdeveloped, allowing distortion of worthy knowledge to propagate unchecked.

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