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7 unusual facts about tarot


Alois Hanslian

Engel-Tarot, Alois Hanslian, Aquamarin-Verlag GmbH, ISBN 3-922936-61-X

The Encyclopedia of Tarot Volume IV Stuart Kaplan & Jean Huets, U.S. Games Systems, ISBN 1-57281-506-X

Inbaal

Inbaal originally became interested in becoming a witch during the 1990s, sparked by a love of Tarot cards.

Lon Milo DuQuette

DuQuette has written several successful books on Western mystical traditions including: Freemasonry, Tarot, Qabalah, ceremonial magic, the Enochian magic of Dr. John Dee, and spirit evocation, Goetia.

Parrot astrology

It involves using green parakeets which are trained to pick up Tarot like fortune cards.

Robert Mazlo

He is also the author of a book on the Tarot, "The Tablets of Hermes", which is one of his main sources of inspiration to create his jewels.

The Power of the Whistler

This presumably means Tarot cards, although the procedure for using such requires the participation of the person whose fortune is being told, as he or she is the one to shuffle the cards, cut the deck, and make selections from the cards dealt.


A.W. Hill

Five years later, Hill followed with the second installment of the Stephan Raszer series, The Last Days Of Madame Rey, a tarot reading in the form of a mystery novel, or a mystery novel in the form of a tarot reading, with acknowledged literary debts to writers from Jules Verne to H. Rider Haggard to Jorge Borges to Wilhelm Reich.

Ace of Wands

After having to leave the programme because of prior commitments, in the final series this pair were replaced by brother and sister Chas (Roy Holder), a photographer, and Mikki (Petra Markham), a female journalist, who have very similar roles, she also sharing a telepathic link with Tarot.

Tarot investigates why children suddenly go berserk and meets the fiendish Uncle Harry (Dermot Tuohy) and his strange troupe of travelling entertainers.

Cosmic Couriers

Cosmic Couriers released many important Krautrock titles by artists including Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra Tempel, Manuel Göttsching, Wallenstein, Popol Vuh, and others, including Walter Wegmüller's 'Tarot'.

Court jester hypothesis

The Court Jester metaphor uses the term "court jester" in the sense of its meaning in the Tarot, where the Jester or Fool is the symbol of death triumphing over all.

Decoding Reality

Vedral uses an Italo Calvino philosophical story about a tarot-like card game as the kernel for his metaphor of conscious life arriving in medias res to a pre-existing contextual reality.

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

To date Ashcroft-Nowicki has written 17 books and designed two tarot decks, the SOL Tarot Deck with Jo Gill and Anthony Clark, and the Shakespearean Tarot with Paul Hardy.

Eden Gray

In the 1960s, Through her books, Gray had an integral part in the creation of the contemporary interest in esoteric Tarot in general, and the Waite-Smith Tarot deck and the Fool's Journey interpretation of the Tarot trump cards in particular.

G. O. Mebes

Mebes' work also influenced the writer Mouni Sadhu, who admitted that his own book, The Tarot, was based on that of Mebes.

Hallow

In the modern period, some neo-pagans believe that the four suits in the Rider-Waite Tarot cards deck (swords, wands, pentacles and cups), which are also a representation of the four classical elements of air, fire, earth and water, are also hallows.

Hierophant

As the guide towards knowledge, insight, and wisdom, in a tarot reading it might, for example, represent a priest, scholar, therapist, or teacher although these individuals are more definitively represented by the Hermit, or suggested by the traits attributed to the King of Cups.

Jean-Claude Flornoy

Jean-Claude Flornoy (Paris, France, 1950 - Sainte-Suzanne, France, 24 May 2011) was a French specialist of the Tarot of Marseille, a writer and card maker working on bringing back to life historical Tarot decks.

John Starr Cooke

Bill Eaton, Rosalind Sharpe Wall, and four others attended, including Dr. Ralph Metzner, who wrote an introduction to T: the New Tarot.

Londa Marks

Fiorenza Tarot by Londa R. Marks is a tribute to Florence, Italy with a collection of art by Fabio Borbottoni cut, colorized and formatted for standard tarot cards.

Martin Krpan

Today, Smrekar's illustrations are mainly known from the images on tarot playing cards.

Mary T. Ficalora

She studied Gnostic Kabbalah with Stephan Hoellar at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles and is a former daily contributor to Allvoices writing about tarot and related topics.

Oswald Wirth

He studied esotericism and symbolism with Stanislas de Guaita and in 1889 he created, under the guidance of de Guaita, a cartomantic Tarot consisting only of the twenty-two major arcana.

Taboo: The Sixth Sense

The game uses the whole tarot deck, which consists of the Minor Arcana and Major Arcana, a total of 78 cards.

Tarot of Marseilles

Cartomancy with the Tarot was definitely being practised throughout France by the end of the 18th century; Alexis-Vincent-Charles Berbiguier reported an encounter with two "sibyls" who divined with Tarot cards in the last decade of the century at Avignon.

One variant of the Tarot de Marseille, now called the Swiss Tarot or the Tarot of Besançon, removes the controversial Papess and Pope and, in their stead, puts Juno with her peacock, and Jupiter with his eagle.

The Ace of Cups

The band was named the Ace of Cups by their manager, astrologer Ambrose Hollingworth, after the Ace of Cups tarot card, which shows a cup with five streams of water.

The Hierophant

In the Mythic Tarot deck, the Hierophant is depicted as Chiron, the learned centaur.

The High Priestess

In the Mythic Tarot, created by Juliet Sharman-Burke and Liz Greene, the High Priestess is portrayed by Persephone, descending a staircase into the Underworld, with the Earth behind her, dressed in white, and holding falling, white flowers.

Visconti-Sforza tarot deck

In the television show Charmed, a Salem antagonist midwife, Ruth Cobb (Judy Geeson) from the 17th century uses the Tarot deck to foretell the future of the Halliwell Sisters during their time travel to witch-hunt times.


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