Introducing The Fool

The Fool is variously considered the first card or the last card of the Major Arcana, thus is either numbered 0 or 22. The Fool is both really, that one before and after the Journey, who finds it comes back to the natural beginning at the end,…

The Magician (From 'Meditations on the Tarot')

Awesome book.I bought a hard copy as reading PDFs can be tiring, but it is there online for those who wish. Here are some short extracts from the Letter to 'an Unknown Friend' on the Magician Arcanum. ''It goes without saying that nobody…

The High Priestess / La Papesse (From Meditations on the Tarot)

Extracts from Meditations on the Tarot (As set forth already) The Magician is the arcanum of intellectual geniality and cordiality, the arcanum of true spontaneity. Concentration without effort and the perception of correspondences in accordance…

The Empress ~ From Meditations on the Tarot

Source Some Extracts from Tomberg's work. The third Arcanum, the Empress, is that of sacred magic. Now, there are three kinds of magic: magic where the magician is the instrument of divine power — this is sacred magic; magic where the magician…

Tarot de Marseille

The Rosicrucian Tarot ~ Mark Stavish

Article Copied from http://www.nmrjournal.com/zine/archive/issues/30/686.htm The Rosicrucian Tarot By Mark Stavish, M.A. For centuries tarot cards have mystified and instructed students of mysticism. Yet, the actual history of this deck of cards called `tarot', after the Italian playing cards tarocci, is often as puzzling as the pictures on the cards themselves. The most common tale of their origin is that they derived from a series of 22 hieroglyphs engraved or painted on 22 columns in an…

Tarot and Kabbalah

This site cannot be copy and pasted ...so check out the first 3 pages of article. Interesting. http://www.krishadar.com/A/WebTarologieA/T1_06_kabbaleA.asp?na=n