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Petrarch’s Triumphs and the creation of tarot
by Robert Mealing forum.tarothistory.com Years ago, when I first started exploring tarot history, I came to the conclusion that Petrarch’s Triumphs were probably a key element in the creation of tarot....
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Christ, the World and Sin
Jean-Michel David www.fourhares.com Unless living in continental Europe and knowing what to look for and where, it is only since the nineteen-eighties that images from older decks became easily...
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The Tarot – Jesus’ New Testament
Russell Sturgess www.beattitude.com.au It is blasphemy! Imagine someone having the gall to suggest that the Tarot, which was referred to as the ‘Devil’s Book’ in the Middle Ages, is presenting the same...
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A Century with the Waite-Smith Tarot (and all the others…)
K. Frank Jensen When the French author, priest and Freemason Antoine Court de Gebelin (1719-84) in 1781 advanced the allegation, that the tarot deck constituted the Egyptian god Thoth’s ‘Secret Book’,...
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Meditation on the Nineteenth Major Arcanum of the Tarot
extract from the book Meditations on the Tarot THE SUN – LE SOLEIL The preceding Arcanum—"The Moon"—confronted us with the task of human intelligence to liberate itself from the magical enchantment...
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Boethius, Fortuna, the Ass and the Monkey
The Wheel of Fortune by Jean-Michel David There are a few cards in the sequence that were especially influential in sending me scurrying through historical connections and developments. This is one of...
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Tarot as Christian Art
by Jean-Michel David No doubt simply due to that I recently had to summarise and review the first 460 pages of Meditations on the Tarot in completing the monthly studies that have taken us through the...
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The Fool as Wandering Jew
by Jean-Michel David During Mediæval times, the legend of the wandering Jew gained popular recognition. I have previously (around 2003 on Aeclectic’s TarotForum) written some comments that indicates...
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A Handbook for personal development by Ken J. Killeen [ed. note: Ken presented the following at the ATS Conference in Melbourne, exemplifying fourfold interpretation with both the Bible and Tarot -...
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Tarot’s expression of the numinous
Tarot finds its expression in various settings: divinatory; meditative; and as artistic expression. Each of these three areas may have a numinous quality in either its development or its...
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