One of the most common mistakes made within the Tarot readers is to consider the Magician the fully developed Master, a position which belongs to Read more KS The Magician
KS The Magician
Tarot deck
KS Queen of Cups
The traditional interpretation of the card is a blond woman. Her attributes, according to Etteilla, are virtue, wisdom, honesty. Mathers adds success, happiness and Read more KS Queen of Cups
KS Nine of Cups
The original meaning attributed to the card by Etteilla is victory, success, achievement, advantage, gain. Mathers preserved this interpretation, while Waite Read more KS Nine of Cups
KS Nine of Wands
According to Etteilla, the Nine of Wands signifies delays, distance, removal or suspension. Mathers saw the card as Read more KS Nine of Wands
KS Hermit
“The Hermit, as depicted by the medieval illustrators, is an old man leaning on a pilgrim’s staff who walks along a path lit by a lantern. He hides the light from his lantern beneath the folds of a cloak, and a serpent precedes him on the path.” (Fredric Lionel, The Magic Tarot)
The truth which we all seek is Read more KS Hermit
Kárpáthy-Smith Tarot First Limited Edition
The Rider-Waite Tarot deck was published 111 years ago around this time of the year.
The name of the artist who has drawn the cards, Pamela Colman-Smith, was not even mentioned. Only in recent years, scholars may add the Smith to the name of the deck, in the spirit of the newfound politically correctness.
The Karpathy-Smith deck is a reimagining of the original Rider-Waite Tarot using mixed media techniques, and Read more Kárpáthy-Smith Tarot First Limited Edition
The Banned Tarot
Depictions of a sexual nature have existed since the dawn of times. From rock art, the so-called Venus figures and ancient Mesopotamian artefacts depicting explicit sex, humans were drawn to sex and driven by sex.
The Egyptian Turin Erotic Papyrus, probably painted in the Ramesside period, consist of a series of twelve vignettes showing men and women in various sexual positions.
The ancient Greeks and Romans produced much art and decoration of Read more The Banned Tarot
Studying the Three of Swords
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Three of Swords
Etteilla’s interpretation of the card.
Upright: Distance, departure, absence, difference, deviation, dispersion, distant, faraway, Read more Studying the Three of Swords
Monkey business
According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary means ‘illegal or improper activity or behaviour’.
I am – among many other things – a self-publishing Tarot creator. I generally create ‘odd’, uncommercial decks. It is my opinion that the Tarot primordially is an instrument of preserving and transmitting esoteric knowledge (wisdom).
I do not have the possibility to print and store larger quantities of my decks, let’s say 2000 copies, which, obviously, means considerably lower production costs. At this point, I only can offer print-on-demand decks, which means Read more Monkey business
Aquarian Hermetic Tarot SE
Hermeticism, also called Hermetism, is a philosophical and esoteric tradition based primarily upon the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. The name Hermes Trismegistus in Ancient Greek means ‘thrice-greatest Hermes’ and was translated into Latin as “Mercurius ter Maximus”.
Hermes Trismegistus may be associated with the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. Read more Aquarian Hermetic Tarot SE
