Download or read book ITALIAN CARTOMANCY written by Alessandra Venturi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of its kind about the Vera Sibilla Italiana to ever to be published in English, and it is the largest body of work on the Sibilla to date. Unlike many books on the subject of cartomancy, this volume comes with both traditional and authentic historical meanings and interpretations, as passed down by word of mouth through thee generations of Italian cartomancers. This, the first volume of two books, provides everything for both novice and experienced readers alike, including historical remarks, card descriptions, the essence of the cards, interpretations (both upright and reverse), key words and lottery numbers. Everything you will ever need to know about La Vera Sibilla from a unique and original source, written by an authentic Italian Vera Sibilla Cartomancer, Alessandra Venturi.
Download or read book The World of Italian Folk Magic written by Rose Inserra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient magical practices to integrate into everyday life. Drawing on her Italian strega (witch) heritage, Rose Inserra's guide to the folk magic of this ancient culture is a treasure trove of Italian folklore, customs, magic and healing practices that will simplify your life and declutter your mind and heart. These practices fulfill the most basic needs of life: warmth, nourishment and connection to the magical and the spiritual. Discover unique Italian witchcraft such as spells, charms and curse removal and learn how to make divination tools, protective amulets and invocations. You'll also find kitchen and herbal witchery with natural remedies to create, spells for love and potions, and recipes for food, wine and even beauty. Delve into Italian spiritual practices and learn about dreams, divination and working with your ancestors, saints and angels, deities, fairies and nature spirits. Brimming with history, culture, remedies, folklore, recipes and – most of all – magic, this book is for anyone fascinated by ancient magical practices with deep connections to nature and the environment – or who wants to discover their Italian heritage.
Download or read book Sibilla Oracle Cards written by Lo Scarabeo and published by . This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pagan Virtue in a Christian World written by Anthony F. D’Elia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts with ties to the Florentine Renaissance. Condemned to an afterlife of torment, he was burned in effigy in several places in Rome. What had this cultivated nobleman done to merit such a fate? Pagan Virtue in a Christian World examines anew the contributions and contradictions of the Italian Renaissance, and in particular how the recovery of Greek and Roman literature and art led to a revival of pagan culture and morality in fifteenth-century Italy. The court of Sigismondo Malatesta (1417–1468), Anthony D’Elia shows, provides a case study in the Renaissance clash of pagan and Christian values, for Sigismondo was nothing if not flagrant in his embrace of the classical past. Poets likened him to Odysseus, hailed him as a new Jupiter, and proclaimed his immortal destiny. Sigismondo incorporated into a Christian church an unprecedented number of zodiac symbols and images of the Olympian gods and goddesses and had the body of the Greek pagan theologian Plethon buried there. In the literature and art that Sigismondo commissioned, pagan virtues conflicted directly with Christian doctrine. Ambition was celebrated over humility, sexual pleasure over chastity, muscular athleticism over saintly asceticism, and astrological fortune over providence. In the pagan themes so prominent in Sigismondo’s court, D’Elia reveals new fault lines in the domains of culture, life, and religion in Renaissance Italy.
Download or read book Cartomancy written by Alessandro Bellenghi and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to the art of fortune telling using cards. As well as giving the historical background of cartomancy and its cultural, magical and astrological ramifications, there are explanations of 15 different card reading methods with step-by-step guidance for self analysis.
Download or read book Fortune Telling With Cards written by P. R. S. Foli and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short book on fortune telling, is an essential read if you want to learn about cartomancy. Within it’s pages it covers a diverse amount of methods for classic styles of reading. There is a short two-chapter section at the end about the Tarot. Described are several different spreads, including the 32-card method, the French and Italian methods, the Grand Star, and Etteilla's Tarot spread. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Italian Folk Magic written by Mary-Grace Fahrun and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2018 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian Folk Magic is a fascinating journey through the magical, folkloric, and healing traditions of Italy with an emphasis on the practical. The reader learns uniquely Italian methods of magical protection and divination and spells for love, sex, control, and revenge. The book contains magical and religious rituals and prayers and explores divination techniques, crafting, blessing rituals, witchcraft, and, of course, the evil eye, known as malocchio in Italian--the author explains what it is, where it comes from, and, crucially, how to get rid of it. This book can help Italians regain their magical heritage, but Italian folk magic is a beautiful, powerful, and effective magical tradition that is accessible to anyone who wants to learn it.
Download or read book Fortune Telling by Cards written by Professor P R S Foli and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Know your fate with tarot cards...In the following pages Professor P. R. S. Foli has given a full information that will, we hope, afford interest and amusement to many. He describes several different spreads, including the 32-card method, the French and Italian methods, the Grand Star, and Etteilla's Tarot spread. This book is an absolutely essential read if you want to learn about cartomancy. For such a small book it covers a surprisingly diverse amount of methods for classic styles of reading. New edition: All illustrations have been redrawn; plates consisting of tabulated text have been re-set, complete table of contents.
Download or read book Fortune Telling by Cards written by Professor P. R. S. Foli and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short book on telling fortunes, primarily with a standard deck of playing cards. There is a short two-chapter section at the end about the Tarot. Described are several different spreads, including the 32-card method, the French and Italian methods, the Grand Star, and Etteilla's Tarot spread.
Download or read book Comparative Tarot written by Valerie Sim and published by . This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk Witchcraft written by Roger Horne and published by Moon Over the Mountain Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and expanded edition of the first text in the Folk Witchcraft series. Complete with practical exercises, descriptions of craft theories and models, and a beginner's working grimoire, Folk Witchcraft provides the student witch with a concise, yet thorough introduction to the old craft that is firmly rooted in the past and adapted for the present. Experienced witches will deepen and enrich their practices by connecting more fully to traditional magics from hundreds of years in the past.With over 50 rituals, charms, and exercises, Folk Witchcraft offers a refreshingly simple approach to the craft that is non-dogmatic, flexible, and rewarding as a regular spiritual practice.
Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty four Devils written by Cory Thomas Hutcheson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ye are twenty-five cards. Become twenty-five devils Enter into the body, into the blood, into the soul ." So begins a nineteenth century Italian charm making use of a small deck of playing cards. This brief-but-richly drawn book explores the practice of divination by playing cards-known as cartomancy. It reveals the "secrets in plain sight" which hide within the pips, kings, queens, and jokers of a standard deck. Explore one method of divination in-depth as you meet the "fifty-four devils"-the symbolic spirits of each card-and learn about invoking ancestral blessings for card readings, the folklore of playing cards, and how to relate fairy tales to a spread along the way. In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of Fifty-four Devils, the author expands the original guide to playing card cartomancy while adding reflections and refinements drawn from an additional decade of practice and research. The history of cartomancy receives more attention, as do some of the sample readings that provide insight into how to best suit the needs of each querent. Additionally, new sections on incorporating playing cards into spellwork, using them in conjunction with other systems such as Tarot, and even designing sigils based on cards expand the scope of cartomancy within the pages. The appendices also include new materials and commentary focused on card-reading folklore. If you are discovering the book for the first time or reading for the new material, the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Fifty-four Devils waits for you to come and meet its impish pack of spirits and find all the joys and mysteries cartomancy has to offer.
Download or read book Practical Cartomancy For All written by antares stanislas and published by Babelcube Inc. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new and third edition, Antares Stanislas adds the method of the septenary, another method for card spreading and sequential extractions that substitutes the one that was illustrated and explained in the second edition, the method of the reversed pyramid. This practical text for Tarot reading collects and illustrates the methods and divination games that the author has been successfully using for over twenty years. After some observations in the field, the author responds to particular questions, for example: the timing of the predictions, whether the cards have an upright and reversed positions, and some other trivia. He explains his three divination methods with the tarots and sets his sights into transmitting the method through a simple language and with 24 examples that illustrate the tarots spreads, and actual consultations that were later confirmed. *Pages: around 162; third edition.*Attention please, The kindle format could cause problems in translation formatting and figures:Don't buy the kindle version. Buy the paper or epub format.
Download or read book Illuminated Tarot written by Caitlin Keegan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Illuminated Tarot folds together the tarot's traditional Major and Minor Arcana into a 53-card deck that can be used for either gameplay or personal reflection.
Download or read book The Game of Saturn written by Peter Mark Adams and published by Scarlet Imprint. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Esoteric Book of the Year As voted by the membership of the Occult of Personality’s Chamber of Reflection Dr. Joscelyn Godwin, Colgate University, emeritus “Besides gratifying the bibliophile, the contents follow scholarly principles, and the notes and documentation are as thorough as one could wish .... Even if only partially provable, The Game of Saturn opens a new and darker vista on the pagan Renaissance. No student of that current should ignore it” Renaissance Quarterly Volume LXXI, No. 2 Niketas Siniossoglou. National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens “The Game of Saturn by Peter Mark Adams is a fascinating read. The author calls it “a literary detective story”, but this may well be an understatement ... Adams decodes astral, alchemical, and sexual associations that are plausible, and shows how they may have been redeployed into visual format ... The Game of Saturn is a stimulating read, and it is difficult to put it down. It will appeal to all scholars of Renaissance intellectual history, esotericism, and Plethon. Published by Scarlet Imprint, the book is a rare example of fine printmaking, featuring beautiful reproductions of the Sola-Busca deck.” Aries - Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 18 (2018) 287–304. The Game of Saturn is the first full length, scholarly study of the enigmatic Renaissance masterwork known as the Sola-Busca tarot. It reveals the existence of a pagan liturgical and ritual tradition active amongst members of the Renaissance elite and encoded within the deck. Beneath its beautifully decorated surface, its imagery ranges from the obscure to the grotesque; we encounter scenes of homoeroticism, wounding, immolation and decapitation redolent of hidden meanings, violent transformations and obscure rites. For the first time in over five hundred years, the clues embedded within the cards reveal a dark Gnostic grimoire replete with pagan theurgical and astral magical rites. Careful analysis demonstrates that the presiding deity of this ‘cult object’ is none other than the Gnostic demiurge in its most archaic and violent form: the Afro-Levantine serpent-dragon, Ba’al Hammon, also known as Kronos and Saturn, though more notoriously as the biblical Moloch, the devourer of children. Conveyed from Constantinople to Italy in the dying years of the Byzantine Empire, the pagan Platonist George Gemistos Plethon sought to ensure the survival of the living essence of Neoplatonic theurgy by transplanting it to the elite families of the Italian Renaissance. Within that violent and sorcerous milieu, Plethon’s vision of a theurgically enlightened elite mutated into its dark shadow – a Saturnian brotherhood, operating within a cosmology of predation, which sought to channel the draconian current to preserve elite wealth, power and control. This development marks the birth of an ‘illumined elite’ over three centuries before Adam Weishaupt’s ‘Illuminati.’ The deck captures the essence of this magical tradition and constitutes a Western terma whose talismanic properties may serve to establish an initiatory link with the current. This work fully explores the historical context for the deck’s creation against the background of tense Ferrarese-Venetian diplomatic intrigue and espionage. The recovery of the deck’s encoded narratives constitutes a significant contribution to Renaissance scholarship, art history, tarot studies and the history of Western esotericism.
Download or read book French Cartomancy written by Laura Tuan and published by . This book was released on 2005-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to the French cartomancy tradition. The images of Madame Lenormand lead you into a universe of symbols and depictions capable of evoking the everyday and connecting it to the magic that surrounds us. The cards permit the future to be revealed.
