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Association for Tarot Studies · 3M ago

Learning the language of images

by Inna Semetsky, PhD In 2006 I published a short entry titled “Tarot” in the Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development that I want to reproduce here with minor changes: A Tarot deck consists of 78 pictorial cards. The pictures on the cards resemble illustrations to a fairy tale, or an adv
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Association for Tarot Studies · 4M ago

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 possible connections between the Fool and the Wandering Jew – what we shall be briefly looking at her
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Association for Tarot Studies · 5M ago

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 first sixteen trumps, I found myself reflecting on not only some fundamental principles taken for g
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Association for Tarot Studies · 8M ago

Education through tarot

by Jean-Michel David Over the last few years I have often reflected on, and being asked, as to how tarot may be included in the context of education. Perhaps it’s because I also teach in a Waldorf Steiner School, in which, to be sure, artistic and historical considerations are certainly given their
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Association for Tarot Studies · 11M ago

The Tarot Wheel

a tripartite view on the internal structure of the Visconti Sforza Tarot By Joep van Loon As all human made concepts, Tarot has not been created immediately in its final form. In the beginning of its existence, in 15th century Northern Italy, there were a lot of different stages before the Tarot cry
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Association for Tarot Studies · 11M ago

In Memorium – Jean-Claude Flornoy

  It seems ever so strange to farewell someone from the tarot world. We all know of our own mortality, as well as the loss of various other contributors to the world, yet somehow when such a event arives, even when more or less anticipated, it remains an unexpected shock. Jean-Claude’s passing is ce
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Association for Tarot Studies · 1Y ago

Some Theories Concerning Ghisi’s Laberinto

by Nadya Chishty-Mujahidthe American University in Cairo Very little concrete historical background is known about the 1616 game Laberinto [Labyrinth] created specifically for the doge of Venice at that time Giovanni Bembo, by the Venetian nobleman Andrea Ghisi. An extant and complete copy is housed
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Association for Tarot Studies · 1Y ago

The Xultun Tarot

The original edition of the Xultun Tarot and its companion book The Maya Book of Life: Understanding the Xultun Tarot by Michael Owen are available from Kahurangi Press at www.xultun.com The Xultun Tarot was created by New Zealander Peter Balin in 1976. It is also known as the Maya Tarot or the Maya
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Association for Tarot Studies · 1Y ago

Extract from Re-Symbolization of the Self

Human Development and Tarot Hermeneutic by Inna Semetsky This book originated as an action-research project conducted between 1992 and 1994 under the auspices of the Californian Behavioral Board Science Examiners when I was a postgraduate student enrolled in the Masters of Arts degree program in the
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Association for Tarot Studies · 1Y ago

Review: The Secret of the Tarot

How the Story of the Cathars Was Concealed in the Tarot of Marseilles Review by Bonnie Cehovetwww.bonniecehovet.com Author: Robert Swiryn Pau Hana Publishing 2010 ISBN 978-061530438-0 The history of the Tarot is quite an interesting one, and one that is often traced by the imagery in the cards. In T
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