Ancient Mysteries Tarot Book


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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."




Ancient Mysteries Tarot Deck


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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.




Ancestral Tarot


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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.




Mystical Origins of the Tarot


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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.




The Tarot of the Bohemians


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Translation of Clef absolue de la science occulte. The tarot of the Bohemians, absolute key to occult science : the most ancient book in the world for the exclusive use of initiates by Papus. CONTENTS include: Part I: The "General Key to the Tarot," Giving the Absolute Key to the Occult Science -- Part II: Symolism in the Tarot. Application of the General Key to the Symbolism. Part III: Applications of the Tarot. Reproduction of 1892 Edition.




Ancient Egyptian Tarot


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Barrett's accompanying book to his 78-card tarot deck gives seekers background information on each card, as well as how to use the cards for divination and to develop clairvoyant powers.




The Mythic Tarot Workbook


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Delve deeper into the wisdom of the Tarot with this one-of-a-kind, hands-on guide The perfect companion to any Tarot deck, The Mythic Tarot Workbook offers a variety of card spreads and creative exercises to help readers learn more about the imagery and symbolism of each card in the deck. Understanding the nature of each card brings a deeper sense of knowledge and insight to every Tarot reading, and with this workbook as a guide, every Tarot enthusiast -- whether beginning or advanced -- can become a more proficient reader. Here You Will Find: Guided imagery exercises and meditations to help you concentrate Suggestions for coloring and drawing so you can become more familiar with the card images Seven different card spreads offering you new ways to conduct and interpret readings Blank lines and pages interspersed throughout, so you can note your reactions to the cards and record the insights revealed in readings




Tarot Triumphs


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Focusing on the major arcana, or trumps, of the Marseilles Tarot, the aim of this book is to encourage the reader to experience the tarot in a direct, fresh, and uncluttered way. Key points: Focuses on the 22 trumps, or the major arcana of the tarot Offers advice on how to study each card and find its unique significance Provides instructions for laying out and reading the cards Explores the tarot in terms of history, divination, symbolism, and esoteric traditions This exploration of the major arcana includes "The Fool's Mirror," a new method for laying the cards out, as well as hints for using the tarot to gain deeper levels of awareness. Cherry Gilchrist offers ways to approach each card, absorb it, and understand its essence. Readers are encouraged to relate this essence to personal experience as the most enduring and rewarding way to prepare for reading the cards.




Integral Tarot: Decoding the Essence


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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."




The Esoteric Tarot


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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