Etteilla’s Book of Thoth

The Book of Thoth aka. The grand Etteila (1804)

The Book of Thoth aka. The grand Etteila (1804)
According to Etteilla, the Tarot was created by a group of seventeen Magi under the direct guidance of Hermes Trismegistus. He wrote in 1783, that he calculated that the Tarot was 3,953 years old. Originally called ‘The Book of Thoth’, engraved on leaves of gold, the foils embellished the altar of a temple.
Papus in ‘The Divinatory Tarot’ associated the Major Arcana cards from Etteilla’s deck based on their Read more Etteilla’s Book of Thoth

The traditional upright and reversed meaning of all the 78 Tarot cards in one video

Golden Hermetic aka Papus in a tin box


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

Something extraordinary was perverted into something ordinary

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

Papus in a tin box

Papus in a tin box
Papus in a tin box is a traditional 78-cards Tarot deck on 70mm x 121mm, 2.75″ x 4.75″ smooth, 330gsm smooth, professional quality card stock and delivered in a fancy tin box.
Black and Gold, elegant design. The easily distinguishable design and artwork facilitate identifying the cards at first glance. Black is the colour of darkness, it represents our fears and the unknown. Gold represents the Sun, the source of light and the strength originated from knowledge. Can’t cast a shadow without light. Read more Papus in a tin box

The Lovers – analyze

The Lovers

The Lovers

The Lovers was for a very long time associated with the idea of love and marriage.
Probably, it is one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted Tarot card.
In each case, there is a story behind the significance of the Tarot cards.
In the case of The Lovers, it is the story of Adam, Eve and Lilith. Read more The Lovers – analyze

The Papus Tarot deck

Papus Tarot deck

Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse (July 13, 1865 – 25 October 1916), whose esoteric pseudonym was Papus, was the Spanish-born French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism, who founded the modern Martinist Order.
As a young man, Encausse spent a great deal of time at the Bibliothèque Nationale studying the Kabbalah, occult tarot, magic and alchemy, and the writings of Eliphas Lévi. He joined the French Theosophical Society shortly after it was founded by Madame Blavatsky in 1884 – 1885, but he resigned soon after joining because he disliked the Society’s emphasis on Eastern occultism. Read more The Papus Tarot deck