by clubmistiqe | Sep 20, 2016 | All About Tarot, Tarot
Papus is the esoteric pseudonym of Gérard Encausse, born at Corunna (La Coruña) in Spain on July 13, 1865, of a Spanish mother and a French father, Louis Encausse, a chemist. His family moved to Paris when he was four years old, and he received his education there....
by clubmistiqe | Nov 29, 2015 | Tarot, Tarot Masters
The Moon is the eighteenth Major Arcana of the Tarot. It is one of the three consecutive trumps representing the luminaries: The Star (17th), The Moon (18th) and the Sun (19th). Waite about The Moon: Life of the Imagination apart from Life of the Spirit According to...
by clubmistiqe | Nov 23, 2015 | Tarot, Tarot Masters
The Star is the seventeenth Major Arcana of the Tarot. It represents a naked woman, kneeling with one foot in the water and the other on the land and pouring liquid into the water and onto the land. On the sky, there is a great, radiant star of eight rays, surrounded...
by clubmistiqe | Oct 29, 2015 | Tarot, Tarot Masters
The Tower is the sixteenth Major Arcana of the Tarot. While in Rider-Waite tarot deck I simply The Tower, some old versions of 17th century tarot called it The Lightning – La Foudre. Probably inspired by this, Papus proposes an alternative name: The Lightning-struck...
by clubmistiqe | Oct 20, 2015 | Tarot, Tarot Masters
The Devil is the fifteenth Major Arcana of the Tarot. There are some differences between the Devil’s image in Tarot of Marseilles and Rider Waite tarot. That’s because A. E. Waite was influenced by another French occultist – Eliphas Levi, author of the famous...