Download or read book Ancient Mysteries Tarot Book written by Roger Calverley and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates Tarot in its ancient roots, with particular emphasis on the tradition of the Mystery Schools. The suites are designated as "Earth, Water, Air and Fire" rather than the conventional Pentacles, Cups, Swords and Wands. The first part of the book is a review of the ancient sources of Tarot and the dynamics of the archetypes, with interesting sidelights on the author's personal experiences in this realm. The reader is instructed by The Magician, The Priestess and The Hermit about the meanings and wisdom of Tarot, which he discovers to be a "Book of Truth."
Download or read book Ancient Mysteries Tarot Deck written by Roger Calverley and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 2004-04-15 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique deck links tarot with the magic of its ancient roots. The images of the Major Arcana are based on sacred temple art from the Mystery Schools of Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia and India, while images of megaliths, sacred fountains and stone temples are used to portray the four sacred elements in the Minor Arcana. Roger Calverley has crafted this deck for divination and initiation, the background and the process of which is described in detail in his book, Ancient Mysteries Tarot. 78 cards plus insert booklet.
Download or read book The Little Book of Tarot written by Elena Alden and published by Godsfield Press. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years, tarot cards have been used for predicting the future, and a way to cast light on life's big questions and inevitable challenges. Tarot reading is a fascinating and enjoyable way to explore your life's journey, whoever you are and whatever you're dealing with. All you need is curiosity and a willingness to tell the truth. What if I told you that our lives are made up of a set number of stories or patterns? At its simplest, the Tarot depicts 78 of these stories. Each story card holds a secret lesson or teaching, and deciphering each card's secret is what reading the Tarot is all about. With beautiful illustrations, instructions on how to use your cards and what they mean, this pocket-sized book is the perfect gift for Tarot enthusiasts and truth seekers. Chapters include: How to Use Your Cards The Major Arcana The Minor Arcana Card Spreads and Stories Tarot in Everyday Life
Download or read book The Tarot of the Bohemians written by Papus and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the casual observer, they're just a pack of playing cards. But to initiates, the mysterious figures of the Tarot deck symbolize the keys to ancient wisdom. The 78 cards can be employed to unlock the secrets of the universe and to foretell the future — but only by those who comprehend their esoteric truths. A pillar of occult science, The Tarot of the Bohemians provides a theological element to the work begun by Antoine Court de Gébelin, Etteila, and Éliphas Lévi, and advanced by A. E. Waite, the distinguished scholar and designer of the most widely known deck. Geared toward initiates, its topics include an introduction to the study of the Tarot as well as its symbolism and applications. This revised edition includes a Preface by Waite in addition to illustrative plates, charts, and tables.
Download or read book Mystical Origins of the Tarot written by Paul Huson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profusely illustrated history of the occult nature of the tarot from its origins in ancient Persia • Thoroughly examines the original historical source for each tarot card and how the cards’ divinatory meanings evolved from these symbols • Provides authentic 18th- and 19th-century spreads and divination techniques • Reveals the divinatory meanings of the cards as understood by diviners in the Middle Ages and Renaissance The origins of the tarot have been lost in the mists of time. Most scholars have guessed that its origins were in China, Egypt, or India. In Mystical Origins of the Tarot, Paul Huson has expertly tracked each symbol of the Minor Arcana to roots in ancient Persia and the Major Arcana Trump card images to the medieval world of mystery, miracle, and morality plays. A number of tarot historians have questioned the use of the tarot as a divination tool prior to the 18th century. But the author demonstrates that the symbolic meanings of the Major Arcana were evident from the time they were first employed in the mid-15th century in the popular divination practice of sortilege. He also reveals how the identities of the court cards in the Minor Arcana were derived from a blend of pagan and medieval sources that strongly influenced their interpretation in tarot divination. Mystical Origins of the Tarot provides a thorough examination of the original historical source for each card and how the cards’ divinatory meanings evolved from these symbols. Huson also provides concise and practical card-reading methods designed by the cartomancers of the 18th and 19th centuries and reveals the origins of the card interpretations promoted by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and A. E. Waite.
Download or read book Integral Tarot Decoding the Essence written by Suzanne Wagner and published by Suzanne Wagner. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Integral Tarot: Decoding the Essence", Suzanne Wagner helps you uncover the essence of Tarot within yourself. With the knowledge she shares, you to can begin to understand your own intuitive skills and gain access to the mysteries that are in your life. She reveals how you can finally use the Tarot as a tool to get answers to the patterns and problems that are happening within your life. Suzanne's book is filled with practical advice, shockingly simple strategies, varied ways to understand and interpret the information that is given in the cards and in depth explanations into the symbolism held within each card. Anyone curious about Tarot will enjoy the ease and depth of Integral Tarot. This book uncovers the mysteries surrounding this ancient form of divination in a way that the modern mind can understand and integrate. This refreshing look at the well-known deck by Aleister Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris goes deeper than many books into the revelation and exploration of the soul. Integral Tarot allows you to not only do readings but to grow and evolve as you journey into the mystery that is life. If you are on the search for your own inner awareness and want to expand your mind beyond what you have previously known, then this book is the one for you. Integral Tarot includes: In depth descriptions of the Major Arcana into physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Explanations of reversed meaning of the cards. Astrological perspectives and interpretations of each card. Famous Quotes to allow the mind to remember the meaning of cards with humor and insight. Interpretations of the symbols illustrated on the Aleister Crowley Tarot. Numerous spreads with which to work and explore the Tarot. Health significance of cards to be able to indicate and understand health related problems. Yes/No/Maybe positions of the cards to quickly interpret an answer for the reader. This is what others have to say about Integral Tarot: Decoding the Essence: Ronald Scott Maestri, Comedian, Producer and Talk Show Host on QVC and Shop at Home Network, said this about Integral Tarot: Suzanne Wagner dazzles me every time she reads my Tarot cards. I'd watch in amazement, as she would literally dance across the messages of the cards, hitting me right between the eyes with their messages of truth and wisdom. Her personal experience and understanding of them is obviously quite vast, based on her own years of working experience. In a rare opportunity, Suzanne shares her incredible insights into how to read each and every card with her book, "Integral Tarot". Today, I have a greater insight into myself. I start each day with my own personal readings. Using Suzanne's book as my guide, those cards speak truths directly to me, even more clearly than when I was a passive observer getting read by someone else. Now, I can hear my guardian angel speak right through me, and you will too. I highly recommend this book to you. It will change your life, just as it continues to change mine. Joel Castleberg, Producer and Owner of Panama Pictures said this about the book: "I have owned and experimented with a Tarot deck for over 15 years and never really knew how to work with it." "Working with Suzanne's Tarot book for only a short time has been extraordinary...in terms of learning about the Tarot, but mostly as a guide in my own personal exploration of consciousness."
Download or read book The Esoteric Tarot written by Ronald Decker and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That the Tarot originated in ancient Egypt as a divinatory tool is a romantic misconception. Ron Decker’s meticulous scholarship will surprise practitioners and academics alike, revealing the Tarot’s true evolution and meanings as its inventor(s) understood it. The Tarot consists of the Minor Arcana, four suits of cards similar to our modern deck, and the Major Arcana, twenty-two allegorical or “trump” cards. Decker says the four-suit deck was invented in Asia Minor before AD 1000; Italian courtiers added the trumps in the 1400s. But Tarot was first used as a game. Tarot divination was only created in the 1700s by a Parisian fortuneteller who based the trump images on Hermeticism, which merges Greco-Egyptian alchemy, astrology, numerology, magic, and mysticism. Today, the suit-cards are often traced to the ancient Jewish Cabala. But, says Decker, they, too, acquired their meanings only in the 1700s, and he cites a lost numerical system based on Cabala at that time Decker’s interpretation integrates three whole systems-astrological, arithmological, mystagogical (concerning initiation rites into the Mysteries). His depth of knowledge makes the book a must-have for serious students of Tarot and esotericism
Download or read book A Renaissance Tarot written by Brian Williams and published by U S Games Systems. This book was released on 1994 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE RENAISSANCE TAROT DECK TAKES ITS INSPIRATION FROM THE SPLENDOR OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CULTURE AND CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY. THE 22 MAJOR ARCANA CARDS FEATURE THE OLYMPIAN DEITIES AND DEMI-GODS OF ANTIQUITY. IN THE MINOR ARCANA, THE FOUR SUITS ARE REPRESENTED BY FOUR FAMILIAR MYTH CYCLES, AND THE GREAT CITIES OF RENAISSANCE ITALY ARE REPRESENTED IN THE COURT CARDS.
Download or read book The Tarot written by Sharp Lani and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an enchanted journey through the 22 Major Arcana cards of the ancient mysteries, whose hidden meanings carry beautiful & life-changing messages for each of the zodiac signs. Open your mind, intuitive powers & imagination to the Tarot & you can change your life through the powerful messages it has to offer! In this powerful, magical & life-affirming book, Lani Sharp, an esoteric Astrologer & Tarot reader of 33 years' experience, offers profound insights, wisdom & guidance that you can easily apply to your very own deeply personal journey. She brings the lessons of the characters, meanings & inherent symbolism in each of the Major Arcana cards to life. Describing symbolism, imagery, meanings, numbers, key themes, messages, archetypes, and how each card intricately relates to the zodiac & all areas of the life experience, these beautiful pages will open you up to vast otherworlds, new possibilities & compel you to uncover & explore your own personal mysteries so that you may live in a more self-aware, fulfilling & deeply enriched way!
Download or read book Mystical Origins of the Tarot written by Paul Huson and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A profusely illustrated history of the occult nature of the tarot from its origins in ancient Persia. The origins of the tarot have been lost in the mists of time. Most scholars have guessed that its origins were in China, Egypt, or India. Huson has expertly tracked each symbol of the Minor Arcana to roots in ancient Persia and the Major Arcana Trump card images to the medieval world of mystery, miracle, and morality plays. A number of tarot historians have questioned the use of the tarot as a divination tool prior to the 18th century. But the author demonstrates that the symbolic meanings of the Major Arcana were evident from the time they were first employed in the mid-15th century in the popular divination practice of sortilege. He also reveals how the identities of the court cards in the Minor Arcana were derived from a blend of pagan and medieval sources that strongly influenced their interpretation in tarot divination."--Publisher marketing.
Download or read book Ancestral Tarot written by Nancy Hendrickson and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, hands-on guide for using tarot to connect with your ancestors and gain access to their insights for healing, self-protection, and personal powers. With a tarot deck in hand, readers will learn how to identify and access ancestral gifts, messages, powers, protectors, and healers. Tarot expert Nancy Hendrickson guides readers through the basics of finding recent ancestors, and navigating the confusing maze of DNA and ethnic heritage. As a longtime tarot enthusiast, she shows readers how to incorporate a metaphysical tool into a world of tradition. Ancestral Tarot spreads are included in relevant chapters. Each chapter includes three journal prompts that lead readers into self-discovery around ancestral gifts, wounds, and patterns they may have inherited. The better we know our ancestors, the better we know ourselves.
Download or read book Tarot Mysteries written by Jonathan Dee and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical and accessible guide to one of the most popular divination systems. What makes this book different from the others is that it: Provides instruction on reading both the Major and Minor Arcana Explains why the cards are the cards, why each picture forms part of a sequence, and why they occupy a mystical place in our consciousness Gives a balanced and informative perspective on each of the cards, as well as an overview of the entire deck Provides a history of the tarot Connects the tarot to the Qabalah Dee is a life-long tarot reader and historian. He traces the spiritual origins of the cards from Celtic mythology and Hebrew mysticism to Renaissance theatrical productions and the stars and planets of astrology. He also examines how past scholars thought about the tarot and how that thinking has changed to make the cards meaningful for today's readers. This wide-ranging primer provides readers with everything they need to know about the tarot and provides fresh insights into the cards. An illustrated edition of this title was published by Sterling in 2003.
Download or read book The Everything Tarot Book written by Skye Alexander and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-08-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realize your psychic potential with the Tarot! Everyone is psychic to one degree or another. And with The Everything Tarot Book, 2nd Edition, you’ll unlock the mysteries of the cards and thus boost your innate psychic abilities. Completely revised, this easy-to-use guide has everything you need to conduct complete Tarot readings for yourself and others. The Tarot deck has been used for centuries to divine the future and as a guide to spiritual development. Now you can learn how to interpret the images on the cards, arrange them into meaningful spreads, and unleash your hidden psychic powers. Each individual card in the Major and Minor Arcana is described in detail, along with the history of the Tarot from ancient times to the present. The Everything Tarot Book, 2nd Edition helps you: -Gain insight into yourself and other people -See into the future and the present more clearly -Understand the effects of the past -Work through personal problems and challenges -Develop your intuition -Enhance your connection with your Higher Self Explore. Engage your curiosity. Use your imagination. Keep an open mind and an open heart. Your future really is in the cards!
Download or read book Celestial Tarot written by Brian Clark and published by U.S. Games Systems. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarot focusing on mythic stories and ancient mysteries of the sky
Download or read book Understanding the Tarot Deck written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mystical Tarot Cards that Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith developed have become the most authoritative deck in existence. This book and the cards originally belonged to the magical order of the Golden Dawn and conveyed to the order's members the secret tradition taught by the ancient mysteries.
Download or read book Absolute Key to Occult Science written by Papus and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS is a book that professes to be an absolute key to occult science. It proves to be an account of the Tarot pack of cards, which is thought by Papus-apparently a French theosophist who disguises himself under this pseudonym-to be the most ancient book in the world. Although woodcuts of the picturecards are given, together with other weird-looking diagrams and symbols, the explanation of the mysterious qualities of the Tarot is itself a mystery to the reader, the reason ." that this book is intended for the "exclusive use of Initiates." A little knowledge of the terms of occult science is required, a trifling and not too accurate acquaintance with some of the ancient philosophers' views of the universe is presupposed, and a parrot-like memory of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet is indispensable. Besides this the reader must be prepared to handle figures and symbols as Izaak Walton advised his angler to use his wriggling worm, "as if he loved him," else the figures and the symbols will escape his mental clutch in triumph; at the best they have but the substance of a dream. Much ingenuity is shown in the explanation of the greater or major arcana, which are all picture-cards. There are twenty-two. of them, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, according to Papus. Beginning with the Juggler, he explains the design by still deeper symbols, connecting the figure with a so-called "primitive hieroglyphic" and the Kabbalah, under the head of "affinities," and affirming that the position of the figure and the very shape of the hat have philosophical and religious significations. In fact, the intricate meanings attached to each card amount at last to the history of the universe, including creation and the life of man here and hereafter, from a metaphysical point of view, tempered by a sort of spiritualistic and theosophical ecstasy over the things of our work-a-day world. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet glide in amongst these phantasies like irrelevant sprites, and, amongst other absurdities, the letter he loses its vital existence, together with its aspirate, and the well-known origin of the letter aleph being ignored, it is supposed to be made up out of the letter yod four times repeated. Occult mysteries. are said to hang on these comical misrepresentations, and they will have to go in quest of other and less philological places of refuge. By the time the lesser or minor arcana are reached, where common packs of cards, with an extra picture card, are dealt with, the spirit of the Tarot should have entered into the reader, causing a stupefaction that will enable him to take the pranks the numbers play with each other as the most natural thing in the world, or out of it. For instance, a number that "binds" others together, apparently by its own elastic nature, is rewarded by becoming the first of a new set. By virtue of this innate self-transforming power of the fourths and sevenths, the major and minor arcana are united, and the latter are also ... marshaled amongst themselves..... --The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, Volume
Download or read book The Complete Book of Tarot written by Juliet Sharman-Burke and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-01-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comprehensive understanding of the Tarot, its history, and its significance, this book also provides a complete home study program for the reader interested in expanding his or her powers of interpretation.
