Most people use the Tarot cards to make predictions about their future. They are generally interested in the three fundamental aspects of life: love, wealth and health. These represent the base level of our desires, originated from our most elementary needs, for food, shelter and sex that are shared by all living creatures and these represent our physical desires.
But the Tarot is much more than this! Read more Tarot: what is it and what is it not
The Tarot card called “The World” of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck it’s been renamed “The Universe” in the Crowley-Harris Thoth deck.
Eliphas Levi gave to the card The Universe (Le Monde) the number 21 and but assigned it to Tav which is number 22. The root of this problem and misinterpretation it’s the card The Fool (The Unwise Man or Le Mat) which was associated with zero, but placed at the 21st position between The Last Judgement and The Universe. Crowley, as a great admire of Levi kept this order of the cards. He attributed 0 to 1 (Aleph) creating a shift between the Hebrew letters and their numeric value. While Levi didn’t bother to explain too much this inconsistency, Crowley explained that the Kabbalistic zero it’s not “nothing”, but “Ain-Soph” which means “Without Limit”. It still don’t clarify why in their system the Hebrew letters assigned to the Tarot cards don’t match their own numeric value according to Gematria.
But the issue of zero it’s not our concern right now! Read more Symbols in the Tarot card The Universe
If I should chose one and only one book which marked me and changed my view of the world as a whole and my understanding of esoteric teachings, without any hesitation I would pick Ouspensky’s “In Search of the Miraculous”. Ouspensky managed to synthesize and systematize the essence of Gurdjieff’s teachings perfectly and accessible for anybody. Read more P. D. Ouspensky – In Search of the Miraculous
Thai artist, Chatriya has creatively fused traditional tarot symbolism with elements from her own culture and influences as far reaching as Egypt, Art Deco, mythology and Japanese manga, illustrated with soothing colors. Read more Fenestra Tarot
This interesting deck by Susan Hudes was published in 1995 by U.S. Games Systems. It’s a standard 78-card deck, with Major card names, Court card names, and suit titles all following the Waite-Smith deck. The imagery on the Minors follows Pamela Colman Smith; in fact, in the placement of the figures they seem to actually be based on another Waite-Smith derivative, the Aquarian Tarot by David Palladini. The Major imagery, however, is more original and individualistic. Read more Hudes Tarot
Based on the structure of the Rider-Waite Tarot, this uniquely expressive deck features magical imagery presented in deep, saturated colors. The borderless 78-card deck allows the details of tarot scenery and symbolism to be viewed from a close, intimate perspective. Read more Morgan-Greer Tarot
Eileen Connolly designed the Connolly Tarot deck in cooperation with her son, Peter Paul Connolly. The scenes on each card are reminiscent of medieval stained glass associated with majestic cathedrals. Each card touches the subconscious in a profound way, and the spiritual and inspirational imagery brings the viewer to a higher level of consciousness. Read more Connolly Tarot
The Ancestral Path Tarot portrays paths created by the ancestors of different cultures and times. The artist Julie Cuccia-Watts draws on living traditions as preserved through verbal and written histories and myths. Read more Ancestral Path Tarot
This deck is a mixture of the old and the new. Walker has studied Women’s History and Mythology extensively and incorporates them into her deck, particularly in the Minor Arcana. The Majors are fairly standard and traditional in design. Read more Barbara Walker Tarot
‘No such thing as luck’ or what is a Tarot reading
Hardcore fans of Science generally are quite skeptical about fortune telling and especially about Tarot cards. They seem to ignore the fact that Physics is about predicting the future. As a consequence we should consider Physics a kind of Magic or charlatanism? Obviously this is not the case. While Science needs a data set to make predictions, Tarot works in a mysterious, not yet identified way. While in Science the quantity of data it’s crucial and the lack of data or more data can alter or completely change the result of a prediction, in Tarot all we need is the 78 Tarot cards which incorporates all the available data (information) from the Universe. Read more No such thing as luck
