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"Learn about the art of reading tarot cards, and then paint your own colorful deck! This step-by-step guide includes card stock with 80 blank cards so you can practice right away. With painting lessons from Adrianne Hawthorne of Ponnopozz, an artist with a vibrant, contemporary style, Create Your Own Tarot Cards will inspire you to make your own beautifully expressive tarot cards in a variety of colors. In addition to learning how to create a personalized deck, Theresa Reed, The Tarot Lady, situates you in the world of tarot with a thorough introduction to this ancient art, as well as an overview of tarot reading. It's a perfect primer for beginners!"-- Provided by publisher

The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man and The Fool: over which loom the terrifying figures of Death and The Devil. The 21 numbered playing cards of tarot have always exerted strong fascination, way beyond their original purpose, and the multiple resonances of the deck are ubiquitous. From T S Eliot and his 'wicked pack of cards' in "The Waste Land" to the psychic divination of Solitaire in Ian Fleming's "Live and Let Die"; and from the satanic novels of Dennis Wheatley to the deck's adoption by New Age practitioners, the cards have in modern times become inseparably connected to the occult. They are now viewed as arguably the foremost medium of prophesying and foretelling. Yet, as the author shows, originally the tarot were used as recreational playing cards by the Italian nobility in the Renaissance. It was only much later, in the 18th and 19th centuries, that the deck became associated with esotericism before evolving finally into a diagnostic tool for mind, body and spirit. This is the first book to explore the remarkably varied ways in which tarot has influenced culture. Tracing the changing patterns of the deck's use, from game to mysterious oracular device, Helen Farley examines tarot's emergence in 15th century Milan and discusses its later associations with astrology, kabbalah and the Age of Aquarius.
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A seventy-nine-card, hand-painted tarot deck created c.1906 by the mystic and artist Austin Osman Spare, reproduced in its entirety, accompanied by contemporary images and texts. In the spring of 2013, a seventy-nine-card, hand-painted tarot deck created c.1906 by the mystic and artist Austin Osman Spare, was identified within the collections of The Magic Circle Museum in London. Austin Spare's lifelong interest in cartomancy is well documented, yet very few of his own fortune-telling cards were thought to have survived. This compelling new example of the artist's early work demonstrates his precocious involvement with the currents that shaped the British Occult Revival at the beginning of the twentieth century, and his interactions with some of the period's artistic and political protagonists including Aleister Crowley, Arthur Ivey, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Pamela Colman Smith. Magic Circle Museum curator and artist Jonathan Allen set about tracing the deck's provenance, its place in the artist's oeuvre, and within the wider histories of cartomancy, potentially re-writing the history of popular Tarot in the early twentieth century. Lost Envoy reproduces Austin Spare's tarot deck in its entirety for the first time, alongside new written and visual contributions from Jonathan Allen, Phil Baker, Helen Farley, Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, Sally O'Reilly, and Gavin Semple.
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• L'Italie au XVe siècle : situation politique et vie artistique / Thierry Depaulis
• Jeux de cartes et tarot
• Un "proto-tarot" à Milan
• Le Traité de la déification des seize héros, un "proto-tarot" milanais et son auteur / Ross Caldwell
• Milan et ses tarots
• Les tarots des Bembo. Entre Filippo Maria Visconti et Francesco Sforza : trois célèbres tarots ducaux / Roberta Delmoro
• Tarots d'autres peintres
• Milan s'amuse : fresques ludiques et cartes à jouer peintes au milieu du XVe siècle / Roberta Delmoro
• Les Trionfi de Pétrarque
• L'illustration des Triomphes de Pétrarque dans l'enluminure florentine du XVe siècle / Ada Labriola
• Florence
• Les tarots peints à Florence au XVe siècle / Ada Labriola
• Le tarot d'Alessandro Sforza / Emilia Maggio
• Ferrare
• La cour des Este / Thierry Depaulis.

"Les tarots enluminés du XVe siècle fascinent. Leur qualité d'exécution, la richesse de leurs couleurs, leurs fonds d'or estampés en font des oeuvres à part, à la fois cartes à jouer et miniatures. Objets de luxe, ils ont été mieux préservés que les jeux ordinaires. Dominés par les cartes peintes par Bonifacio Bembo et son atelier pour la cour de Milan au milieu du XVe siècle, des tarots enluminés ont également été réalisés pour d'autres cours comme celles de Ferrare ou de Florence. Ce livre et l'exposition qu'il accompagne sont l'occasion non seulement de rassembler des tarots peints du XVe siècle en Italie (essentiellement Milan et Florence), mais aussi de porter sur eux un regard neuf, appuyé sur le savoir le plus à jour des historiens de l'art, mobilisés pour cette exposition. Ainsi peut-on mieux préciser les attributions, souvent renouvelées, et datations de ces cartes. Milan et Florence apparaissent dès lors comme des centres majeurs de production. Aux côtés de la famille Bembo, active à Brescia et à Crémone, dont les membres sont aujourd'hui mieux connus, d'autres peintres, parfois non identifiés, sortent de l'ombre, notamment à Florence. Le résultat de cette enquête passionnante ambitionne d'apporter un éclairage nouveau et interdisciplinaire sur les tarots enluminés."--Page 4 of cover.

• The Fool
• The Narrator
• The Wishing Table

"Fairy-tale atmospheres and complex narratives are a hallmark of the fiction of Anne Serre, represented here by three radically heterodox novellas. The Fool "may have stepped out of a tarot pack: I came across this little figure rather late in life. Not being familiar with playing cards, still less with the tarot, I was a bit uncomfortable when I first set eyes on him. I believe in magic figures and distrust them-a figure observing you can turn the world upside down." The Narrator concerns a sort of writer-hero: "Outcasts who can't even tell a story are what you might call dropouts, lunatics, misfits. With them the narrator is in his element, but has one huge advantage: he can tell a story." The Wishing Table-a moral tale concerning a family happily polyamorous-is the most overtly a fable of these three works, the most naughty, and the briefest, but thin as a razor is thin. A dream logic rules each of these wildly unpredictable, sensual, and surreal novellas: these may be romps, but they are nevertheless deeply moral and entirely unforgettable ones"-- Provided by publisher.

• Re-Symbolization of the Self; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;
• CHAPTER 1: WHY THIS BOOK?;
• CHAPTER 2: DOING BRICOLAGE; NOTES;
• CHAPTER 3: MYTHS AND REALITY;
• CHAPTER 4: HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND TAROT SYMBOLISM; THE NIGHT;
• CHAPTER 5: PERSONALITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS;
• CHAPTER 6: GILLES DELEUZE: Learning from the Unconscious;
• CHAPTER 7: TAROT AND PROJECTIVE HYPOTHESIS;
• CHAPTER 8: STORIES LIVES TELL; CASE 1. MICHAEL; CASE 2. LOLA; CASE 3. OMAR; CASE 4. SAM; CASE 5. LINA; CASE 6. MARINA; CASE 7. RENATA; CASE 8. PAM; CASE 9. ROSS; CASE 10. DONNA; CASE 11. TESS; CASE 12. CATHY; CASE 13. RODNEY.

• CASE 14. GORDANACASE 15. ANITA;
• CHAPTER 9: THE CULTURAL PEDAGOGY OF TAROT;
• CHAPTER 10: TAROT AND A NEW SCIENCE; APPENDIX QUESTIONNAIRE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

Bringing together popular and academic cultures, Inna Semetsky presents Tarot as a system of transformative hermeneutics for adult self-education and cultural pedagogy. Her research is a decisive and intelligent step ahead from the reductive stereotype of Tarot as fortune-telling. The fifteen life stories at the heart of the book exemplify the author's commitment to alternative modes of education and counseling that transcend individual, cultural or language barriers. Assembling a rich array of sources, from Hermeticism to Jungian depth psychology, the philosophies of Noddings, Buber, and Dele.

• Prologue to the new edition / Susan Aberth & Tere Arcq
• Leonora's inner compass / Gabriel Weisz Carrington
• As in a mirror with multiple facets: Leonora Carrington and the tarot / Susan Aberth & Tere Arcq -- Major arcana, the individual cards / Susan Aberth & Tere Arcq

The Game of Saturn is the first full length, scholarly study of the enigmatic Renaissance masterwork known as the Sola-Busca tarot. It reveals the existence of a pagan liturgical and ritual tradition active amongst members of the Renaissance elite and encoded within the deck. Beneath its beautifully decorated surface, its imagery ranges from the obscure to the grotesque; we encounter scenes of homoeroticism, wounding, immolation and decapitation redolent of hidden meanings, violent transformations and obscure rites. For the first time in over five hundred years, the clues embedded within the cards reveal a dark Gnostic grimoire replete with pagan theurgical and astral magical rites. Careful analysis demonstrates that the presiding deity of this 'cult object' is none other than the Gnostic demiurge in its most archaic and violent form: the Afro-Levantine serpent-dragon, Ba'al Hammon, also known as Kronos and Saturn, though more notoriously as the biblical Moloch, the devourer of children. This work fully explores the historical context for the deck's creation against the background of tense Ferrarese-Venetian diplomatic intrigue and espionage. The recovery of the deck's encoded narratives constitutes a significant contribution to Renaissance scholarship, art history, tarot studies and the history of Western esotericism

Five men who board a train as strangers will soon find commonality when joined by a sixth passenger, the mysterious traveler known as Dr. Schreck . Watch as their destinies unfold in the chilling and life-altering horror-thrill ride.

When sixteen-year-old Sophie Granger suspects she is pregnant, she digs out her mother Peggy's tarot cards. Peggy hasn't read fortunes since her hippie days in Taos, but as soon as she flips the cards, Peggy sees both her daughter's predicament and the family crisis that will ensue. A panicked Peggy scatters the layout and rushes from the room, leaving Sophie to construct a literal house of cards. Set in New Mexico, this engrossing family novel raises questions about the role that fortune plays in our lives.
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Six men share a railway compartment. One of them introduces himself as Dr. Terror and takes out a deck of Tarot cards. He calls the cards his "house of horrors" and explains that the cards are used to predict the future. Dr. Terror predicts grotesque deaths for all five men.

• Wheel of Fortune
• Temperance
• The Magician
• The Lovers
• The Fool
• The Devil
• Death.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Labyrinth-"a rich brew of supernaturalism and intrigue."(Kirkus Reviews) In 1891, young Leonie Vernier and her brother arrive at the home of their widowed aunt in Rennes-le-Bains, in southwest France. But nothing is as Leonie had imagined. Their aunt is young, willowy, and beautiful, and the estate is a subject of local superstition. Villagers claim that Leonie's late uncle died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre on its grounds... More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives in Rennes-le- Bains while researching the life of Claude Debussy. Haunted by a Tarot reading she had in Paris-and possessing the mysterious deck of cards-she checks into a grand old hotel built on the site of a famous mountain estate destroyed by fire in 1896. There, the pack of Tarot cards and a piece of 19th-century music known as Sepulchre 1891 hold the key to her fate-just as they did to the fate of Leonie Vernier.
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