The Light Blue Tarot E-Book

Lune Inkpen

• Herausgeber: Lune Inkpen
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

For hundreds of years, ordinary playing cards (minor or lesser arcana) and Tarots (major arcana or trumps) have been used to portray the world: they narrate and explore it. The major arcana contain 22 mysterious images (no suits), while the 56 ordinary playing cards (fourteen for each of its four suits) form the minor arcana. All 78 cards or blades are seen as archetypes of the human cycle; they express, symbolically, the meaning of the felicitous or ominous experiences of individual journeys through life on earth.This book aims at providing readers with a basic knowledge of the Tarots (historical background, means, symbolism), as well as with an easy method for reading them availing of the divinatory principles in practice. With a little exercise, anyone can learn the art of divination.

Leseprobe

Lune Inkpen

The Light Blue Tarot

Copyright © 2016 Enrica Tedeschi

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Graphic design by Enrica Tedeschi

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Tarot de Marseille Jodorowsky Camoin

English translation by Catherine McCarthy

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Index

Introduction

0 The Fool

I The Magician

II The High Priestess/Popess

III The Empress

IV The Emperor

V The Hierophant/ Pope

VI The Lovers (The Enamoured)

VII The Chariot

VIII Justice

IX The Hermit

X The Wheel of Fortune

XI Strength

XII The Hanged Man

XIII Death

XIV Temperance

XV The Devil

XVI The Tower

XVII The Stars

XVIII The Moon

XIX The Sun

XX Judgement

XXI The World

The minor arcana

Hearts (Feelings, Sentiment)

Clubs (Activity)

Spades (Intellect)

Diamonds (Interest)

Methods

The five-card or cross method

Interrogating the full major arcana deck

Celtic-Cross or Ten-card method

The wheel and 12-house method

The Papus method

For enthusiasts and those who never tire of seeking...

References

Introduction

For hundreds of years, ordinary playing cards (minor or lesser arcana) and Tarots (major arcana or trumps) have been used to portray the world: they narrate and explore it. The major arcana contain 22 mysterious images (no suits), while the 56 ordinary playing cards (fourteen for each of its four suits) form the minor arcana. All 78 cards or blades are seen as archetypes of the human cycle; they express, symbolically, the meaning of the felicitous or ominous experiences of individual journeys through life on earth. Their iconography portrays western culture and the historical structure of Italian humanism quite clearly. The “divine blades” were a game, a book of memories and a scheme for foretelling the future in Mediaeval and Renaissance Italy. Later they spread all over Europe and, in France, in particular, from the eighteenth century on, they gave rise to investigation of the occult world of divination. They soon conquered the English-speaking world as well as many other cultural milieus that were able to see themselves reflected in those images and symbols. The cards tell stories that comprise a myth, or a system of mind-sets and occurrences, physical and emotional experiences of a universal nature, common to all human beings.

This book aims at providing readers with a basic knowledge of the Tarots (historical background, means, symbolism), as well as with an easy method for reading them availing of the divinatory principles in practice. With a little exercise, anyone can learn the art of divination. The meanings presented here are the traditional ones, updated to comply with present-day language use and the modern worldview, but all should feel free to style them according to their own intuition and human experience. The cards are simply a tool, a bridge by which to reach the Other and the Self. By entering into syntony with archetypical images, throwing open the doors of intuition and the imagination (not fancy but veritable magic), one may find answers within oneself to the issues the enquirer’s questions elicit, and propose ways of interpreting the situation presented to the Tarots as a problem to be solved, because the “divine blades”, however they may be viewed symbolically, are above all a unique means of gaining knowledge.