Greetings DarkWing,

Thank you for the summary. It was J. Augustus Knapp who wrote the LWB and he borrowed this method from Papus’ Second Lesson on the Divining Tarot.

Take Care,
Desmond

Greetings, Here is a list of real questions that I compiled from an exchange group that might be useful here for practicing with the Pips. ——- What are Ryan's feelings for me? What does my financial picture look like in the next three months? Who reaches out first, me or S (male)? What advice does t...

_R_ wrote: ↑09 Feb 2020, 12:07Grimaud, the one and only (although she calls it the Conver, like many others).

Is there a version in print that you recommend?

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I am glad that others are finding these things useful. I forgot to mention that prior to creating his own adaptation of the RWS deck for BOTA, Paul Case used the Knapp-Hall deck as the basis for his 1933 course, Oracle of the Tarot.

D4754D9B-7E25-42F2-BEDE-2098BFA11EBD.jpeg Manly P. Hall (1901-1990) was a prolific 20th century occult philosopher and founder of the Philosophical Research Society and Library. His researches were vast and extended from ancient philosophy and the occult sciences to eastern mysticism but he is most...

Paul Foster Case’s famous Tarot lessons from Builders of the Adytum (BOTA) are available online from The International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (IAPSOP). Introduction to Tarot Tarot Fundamentals Tarot Interpretation His book The Tarot: A Key to the Wisd...

But the Waite deck has the merit of having opened in fact the tarot to the Anglo Saxon world and so I do give it that credit and it has helped at least give the tarot some lettres de noblesse in places where it was not part of the culture. And Waite meant well. He wasn't a bad person - just looking...

You mentioned Kabbalah prompting you to return a book to the shelf; Tarot and Kabbalah don't mix? I'm wondering this since reading into Thoth. I get the astrological correspondence part, just when tied in with Kabbalah I tend to doubt. Greetings Monk, I explained my perspective on this in my bio: “...

I added two important interviews to the OP.

The Jodorowsky Films YouTube channel contains recorded Tarot readings by Alejandro Jodorowsky, a legendary avant-garde filmmaker, tarot reader, and psychomagic guru. As part of his Indiegogo campaign to raise money for the film adaptation of his fictionalized autobiography Endless Poetry, he include...

AD2FA766-AB2A-4555-A1A9-92DDE0A66AD6.jpeg Seeing the World: Tarot Signposts on the Path to Perception is a major recent translation of Jean-Claude Flornoy’s Le pelerinage des bateleurs . The following is a pastiche of observations that I made during and after reading the book. Part One blends fact ...

Robert O’Neill’s tarot essays are available online in a phenomenal archive.

Tarot Essays

Sadly, the database has been deleted, but Jean Michel-David recently shared that many of the articles are still available in archived form through the Wayback Machine.

Tarotpedia Archive

This site contains complete scans of many classic and contemporary tarot decks:

World Web Playing Cards Museum

He may indeed. In fact, he put together the materials linked to above. That said, I do not know where this Lacan rumour began as Tchalaï - always generous to a fault - never mentions him or his work in her books. Greetings _R_, You are my personal hero. I just discovered your material yesterday and...

4C007D0A-BFFA-4EF9-A502-95D130B187E5.jpeg Tchalaï Unger (1934-2005) was an exceptional French polymath of Hungarian Gypsy ancestry who worked as an entertainment journalist and Eriksonian-Transpersonal therapist. She is reported to have been a student of Jacques Lacan and mentor to Alejandro Jodoro...

Greetings, This is not a book but a pair of articles from The Playing-Card journal that I consider essential reading on the subject. Depaulis examines the origins of the Tarot of Marseilles classification, introduces a typology for classifying different TdM decks, and provides reasonable speculation...

I added Taroloyeast, a practical guide to Tarology to the TdM books section.

Greetings Diana, That sounds great and I look forward to participating in the new group. Tarology is not on YouTube but you can stream it online for free in its entirety at the Snag Films Website . Concerning Schuon, I joined his Tariqah and learned his teachings from the inside out. Suffice to say ...

Hello Sir! Nice to see you here. I will get started on putting something together. I would be happy to see other interested people start engaging with this material and putting it into practice here at the Cult of Tarot.

676D59C3-6EA3-4EBF-A557-274A75CC0E61.jpeg In the recent e-mail from Joan Marie, she mentioned that a new Tarot of Marseilles group, Learning to Read the Pips, is forthcoming to the Cult of Tarot. Given the increasing interest in Tarot of Marseilles and Pip reading, I thought that it may be useful t...

Here is the text on the deck from Breton’s Free Rein:


And from Alastair Brotchie’s Surrealist Games:

I suppose you know that French surrealists (including Andre Breton) designed their own Tarot of Marseilles while being holed up hiding from the Nazis during WW2. I've been thinking of making a thread about this. The deck is gorgeous and the history behind it worth knowing about. The Jeu de Marseill...

Greetings, As a contribution to the original topic of the tarot and the language of the birds, here are a few comments on the subject that I have written elsewhere: I am very pleased to see that other people are taking an interest in the unique subject of the Language of the Birds. This language pos...