The Golden Hermetic and Fortune Telling Tarot deck aka Papus in a Tin Box is a traditional Tarot deck based on the teachings of Etteilla (Jean-Baptiste Alliette), Éliphas Lévi, S. L. MacGregor Mathers founder and head of the Hermetic Order of Golden Dawn (and mentor of Aleister Crowley), Paul Christian, Oswald Wirth, Papus (Gerard Encausse) and Arthur Edward Waite. Read more The traditional upright and reversed meaning of all the 78 Tarot cards in one video
Recently I had a very pleasant conversation with one of my virtual friends regarding the correct ordering of The Fool among the cards of the Major Arcana.
My interlocutor seemed surprised when I said that The Fool does not belong to the beginning of the Tarot deck and actually, he was not placed there until very recent times.
As many other Tarot readers, he thought that according to the Golden Dawn system The Fool, numbered zero, is the very first card placed before The Magician, the card which is traditionally numbered one. Read more The journey of The Fool
