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Discover a treasure trove of French-language Tarot materials translated into English. Uncover overlooked and influential books, articles, and more, providing profound insights into Tarot's history, symbolism, and potential. Gain a deeper understanding of the Tarot and its possibilities through digests, reviews, and critiques. Expand your knowledge and open up new horizons in the world of..
Traditional Tarot
1w ago
Book Review: A Critical Introduction to Tarot by Simon Kenny While there are many books about Tarot, that is, that purport to explain the meaning of the cards, their symbolism and significance in relation to each other, especially for the ..read more
Traditional Tarot
1w ago
Translator’s Introduction In these pages, we have often mentioned Paul Marteau and his deck of cards, the Ancien Tarot de Marseille, published in 1930, and his influential book, Le Tarot de Marseille, published in 1949. Numerous book reviews and articles ..read more
Traditional Tarot
1w ago
Confessions of a Tarot Scholar: Ronan Farrell and the Traditional Tarot Archive With Laetitia Barbier We are delighted to announce a live event online with the delightful Laetitia Barbier, of Laetitia Cartomancy, author of Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual ..read more
Traditional Tarot
1w ago
Moreau de Dammartin A Biographical Sketch Translator’s Introduction Moreau de Dammartin presents something of an enigma. Author of a very rare and obscure work of erudition, very much after the fashion of Court de Gébelin; the first person to propose ..read more
Traditional Tarot
1w ago
Translator’s Introduction In a previous installment, we presented the original text, translation, and score for the piece Etteilla ou le devin du siècle (Etteilla, or the Soothsayer of the Century), written in honour of the founder of hermetic cartomancy. The ..read more
Traditional Tarot
1M ago
Introduction When Ronan asked me if I would like to write the introduction to his translation of Robert Klein’s “Les tarots enluminés”, I said that I would be honoured. This essay was the only one of Klein’s writings that I ..read more
Traditional Tarot
2M ago
Translator’s Introduction Twenty years after publishing his article The Tarot, or the Thinking Machine, Valentin Bresle would pen the preface to a work by a fellow occultist, Edmond Delcamp, couched in the effusive terms the attentive reader will have come ..read more
Traditional Tarot
8M ago
The Tarot in Chinese: A Basic Primer 塔羅牌基本語彙 The Chinese origins of playing cards remains one of those understudied aspects of Tarot history, and undeservedly so, if only were it to further our understanding of the complex cultural and ..read more
Traditional Tarot
9M ago
Translator’s Introduction Shamanism is one of those notions that has not only a disputed definition, but also a disputed etymology. A glance at the Wikipedia entry ought to be enough to convince one of the lack of consensus on the ..read more
Traditional Tarot
11M ago
On the Mithraic Origins of the Tarot Esmé Wynne-Tyson Introduction The Tarot, to use a French expression, has been put in every sauce; almost no occasion to find the alleged missing origins of this deck of cards has been missed ..read more