Tarot: theory and practice
I – The Magician – 1 – Aleph (between Keter and Binah) – Air/Chest
According to A.E. Waite, The Magician “card signifies the divine motive in man, reflecting God, the will in the liberation of its union with that which is above. It is also the unity of individual being on all planes, and in a very high sense it is thought, in the fixation thereof.” Read more Tarot of Cyclicity, The Magician
The Unified Esoteric Tarot deck. Explaining the design of the cards.
Reading the Unified Esoteric Tarot deck is a very simple and intuitive process. Each card contains all the information you need to read them at first glance. Read more Reading the Unified Esoteric Tarot deck
The basic and most frequently used Numerology technique is called “theosophical addition” or “esoteric reduction” and consist in reducing to a single digit number any date or number. For instance, 2019 is three. 2+0+1+9=12 12=1+2=3
Tarot readers usually associate the numbers with the twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana and subsequently with the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Number three is attributed to The Empress. Read more Introducing basic Numerology
Renewal. The Rider-Waite-Smith and the Tarot of Cyclicity, the past and the future, tradition and evolution, divination and therapy. Read more Introducing the Tarot of Cyclicity
Tarot reader and card creator Case Kūjaku asked the same 7 question to 4 contemporary card creators: Ciro Marchetti, Doug Thornsjo, Gary Shook and Attila Blága.
Case has been into reading cards since the late 1970s, before mobile phones and the internet, back when people left their doors unlocked and wore horrible clothes. He started out reading playing cards because in those days in New Zealand it was pretty difficult to find tarot cards, plus his mother thought they were stupid and would have just thrown them out anyway.
When he went to university in the early 90s, Case got into tarot through getting interested in psychology and reading stuff by a human called Carl Jung and another human called Joseph Campbell. He was also really into the occult, and doing lots of silly dances and reading books and stuff. Read more 4 card creators, 7 questions, 7 answers
Jack Alfred Raymond Sickly (JARS) is an American-Swiss artist. The core research of the project was done from September to December of 2007, gigabytes of images and documents compiled. He started working on the Sickly Tarot project on September 30th, 2007 and the work was completed on April 9th, 2017.
The finished product is a 78-card standard Tarot deck, plus two additional suits of 15 cards apiece, The Sickly Suit, respectively The Seventh Suit, and a joker card, The King of Limbs inspired by Radiohead, summing a total of 109 original cards plus a back panel.
Every 11 by 17-inch piece is drawn entirely by hand with black Pilot G2 gel pen on Canson eighth-inch graph paper – freehand without pencil or straight-edge, no tracing – ranging between 20 and 140 hours of focused, conscious work per card. Read more The Sickly Tarot
The ITF CARTA Awards first came into effect 8 years ago in 2011, when they were platformed under their original name of the PECTO Awards. The name was changed to the CARTA Awards by the original founders who then approached the International Tarot Foundation (ITF) offering them the opportunity to take over the awards and platform PECTO’s final year in 2016.
The ITF is committed to platforming awards that truly celebrate the cartomancy community, its creators, authors and artists who along with the suppliers make it possible for us to enjoy their wonderfully creative and truly stunning works. Read more Carta Award 2018 Registrations
Indie Deck Review (Amanda Bell): What is your favorite/most learned from/most drawn to deck? Read more Something extraordinary was perverted into something ordinary
The Knapp-Hall Tarot is a reprint of the original Knapp Tarot, which was first published in 1929. The majors have a French influence and the minors are unillustrated.
This deck is unpublished, rare, or out of print and isn’t easily available. Read more The Knapp-Hall Tarot
A couple of days ago I stumbled into an article written by Benebell Wen stressing the sensitive issue of self-publishing a Tarot deck. About Benebell Wen you should know that she is the author of the book “Holistic Tarot.” The article entitled “What Does it Cost to Self-Publish a Tarot Deck?” bring up exclusively the cost issues of this process. Starting on a kidding tone, Benebell Wen says that “I wanted to post this for the aspiring deck creators to crush your dreams.” Her cost calculations, on the other hand, are serious and accurate. Her write up is definitively useful, and anyone considering starting a self-publishing venture should check it out. However, I would have a couple of observations. Read more The passions and pains of self-publishing
