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...
by clubmistiqe | Oct 19, 2015 | Tarot, Tarot Masters
Temperance is the fourteenth Major Arcana in most tarot decks, but sometime different authors used different names for this trump: Time (P. D. Ouspensky) or Art (Aleister Crowley). We’ll see how Temperance is interpreted by four important masters of tarot: the British...
by clubmistiqe | Oct 12, 2015 | Tarot, Tarot Masters
Death is the thirteenth Major Arcana card. It is named Death in Rider-Waite tarot deck and in Aleister Crowley’s Tarot of Thoth, but other decks, especially the Tarot of Marseilles, omit the name from the card. Therefore, it is also known as L’Arcane Sans Nom –...
by clubmistiqe | Oct 8, 2015 | Tarot, Tarot Masters
The Hanged Man is the twelfth Major Arcana, depicting a man hanging upside-down by one foot. The serene, even enthusiast expression on his face indicates that this has a deeper signification than a „ pittura infamante“ – the defaming portraits, common in Renaissance...
by clubmistiqe | Oct 2, 2015 | Tarot, Tarot Masters
Justice is the eleventh Major Arcana in Rider Waite tarot deck and the eigth in the Tarot of Marseilles and in the Thoth tarot deck (where is called „Adjustment“). Traditionally, Justice was the eighth card and Justice the eleventh, but Waite switched their position,...
by clubmistiqe | Oct 1, 2015 | Tarot, Tarot Masters
Wheel of Fortune, the tenth Major Arcana of the Tarot, remembers the ancient and medieval philosophical concept of Rota Fortunae – the wheel of the goddess Fortuna. The medieval collection of poetry „Carmin Burana“ expresses very clear the meaning of this concept:...
